Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 116
BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA PART FOUR 116 ایں چہ عقل تو ایں چہ دانش و رائے کہ کئی ہمسری ہاں یکتائے What kind of wisdom, understanding, and opinion you have, That you regard yourself equal to the Unequalled One! ایں چہ قہر خدا دو چشمت دوخت این چه استاد ناقصت آموخت Who is the incompetent teacher who instructed you? Oh, what divine wrath have you incurred that has blinded you in both of your eyes! این چه از فکر خود خطا خوردی اول الدن دردی آوردی What blunder have you committed with your own thinking! The very first step you have taken is filled with filth! چول شود عقل ناقصت چو خدائے آنچه صد سہو و خاک زادی جہاں پرد به سما How can your defective intellect be equal to God! How can a handful of dust fly to reach the skies! صد خطا دارد علم آن پاک از کجا آرد How can intellect, which suffers from hundreds of oversights and faults, Acquire knowledge that is the prerogative of that Holy Being? سہو کن را شنا کنی بیهات ایں چہ سہو و خطا کنی میبات Woe betide you who praise reason that is prone to forgetfulness! Woe betide you who forget and err! آن چه لغزد بہر قدم صدبار چول ز دریا رساندت بکنار How can that which stumbles and errs hundreds of times, Carry you from the deep sea to the shore! ایں سراب است سوئے آں مشتاب می نماید ز دور چشمه آب Reason is but a mirage, do not make haste to reach it, Which shows a fountain only from a distance.