Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part III — Page 65
FOOTNOTE NUMBER ELEVEN FIRST OBJECTION رو از خور تاباں که من خود برارم روشنی از خویشتن If you turn your back on the bright sun, And believe that you can produce light from within you, تافتن عالمی را کور کردست ایں خیال سرنگوں افگند در چاه ضلال This belief has made many a people blind, Casting them headlong into the pit of misguidance. ناز بر فطنت مگن گر فطنتی ست در ره تو این خرد مندی بنتے ست If indeed you have some intelligence, do not flaunt it with pride; This intellect is only an idol barring your way. عقل کال با کبر میدارند خلق هست حمق و عقل پندارند خلق People's intellect adulterated with arrogance, Is mere foolishness which they think is intelligence. کبر شہر عقل را ویران کند عاقلان را گم ره و نادان کند Pride lays to waste the city of reason, And turns the wise into misguided fools. آنچه افزاید غرور و معجبی چون رساند تا خدایت اے غوی How can that which makes you proud and arrogant, Ever lead you to God, O misguided one! شرک اندازد ترا تو به کن از خود روی اے خودنما Self-conceit will land you in idolatry. Repent of self-conceit, O ostentatious one! از فیوض سرمدی مهجور تر خود روی در ہست مشرک از سعادت دور تر و A polytheist is far removed from the true bliss, And he has been flung far away from the eternal bounty of God. 65