Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 117
117 FOOTNOTE NUMBER ELEVEN کشتی تو شکسته است و خراب باز افتاده در تگ گرداب This ark of yours is withered and damaged, And furthermore, it is caught in a whirlpool. ناز کم کن بریں چنیں کشتی کم خرام اے دنی بدیں زشتی Take no pride in such an ark, O wretched one, do not give yourself such airs despite being ugly! ترسی تا یقیں ز راه قیاس ہمہ بر ظن و و هم هست اساس You cannot attain certainty through the path of inferences, They are only founded on opinion and conjecture. گر از فکر و نظر گداز شوی ایں نہ ممکن که اهل راز شوی Even if you melt in the course of your speculations, You cannot fathom the [divine] secrets. گر دو صد جان تو ز تن برود ایں نہ ممکن که شک و ظن برود Even if two hundred lives were to leave your body, It would be impossible to remove doubt and conjecture. بست داروئے دل کلام خدا کے شوی مست جز بجام خدا Only the Word of God can provide comfort to the heart; How can you be intoxicated with the love of God, except from the goblet of God! هست بر غیر راه آن بسته ہمہ ابواب آسماں بسته The road leading to Him is closed for the others, All doors to Heaven are shut on them. تا نشد مشعلی ز غیب پدید از شب تار جہل کس نرسید Until a torch is lit from the unseen, No one can be liberated from the dark night of ignorance.