Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 153
FOOTNOTE NUMBER ELEVEN ہمہ حاصل شده از الهامش وصل دلدار و مستی از جامش Bonding with the Beloved and intoxication from His goblet Are possible only through the revelation of God. وانکہ زین اصل غافل آں خامیست وصل آن یار اصل ہر کامیست Bonding with God is the ultimate cause of all objectives; Whoever forgets this cause remains unfulfilled. بے عطیات ما ہمہ بے زاد بے عنایات ما ہمہ برباد We are totally indigent without His bounties; We are absolutely ruined without His favours. 153 Here, I consider it appropriate to note that Pundit Shiv Narayan Agnihotri, who is a senior member of the Brahmü Samāj of Lahore, has expressed some opposing views, which, in his opinion, go against my explanation for the need of divine revelation given above, in the hopes that he may somehow prevent the truth of this matter from having an effect upon his sect. He has struggled a great deal in this regard, and has even written a review with the utmost effort. However, as the well- known [Urdu] proverb goes, Sānch ko ānch nahin ['Truth has nothing to fear'], and since no one can hide the sun of truth, the result of what- ever effort the Pundit has exerted is only that it has become manifestly clear to the wise how averse he is to accepting the truth. The Pundit's composition in no way merits any effort towards its rebuttal, albeit a careful study of my preceding discourse is more than sufficient to refute it. However, I deem it appropriate that, insincere as the writing of the Pundit may be, the reality [of its worthlessness] should be disclosed to the just, lest the Pundit feel aggrieved [for being ignored], or some of his friends, out of their wishful thinking, misper- ceive my silence as any sort of inability. Hence, it should be clear that in response to the evidence [of the Holy Quran's incomparability] given by me, the Pundit has asserted in his review that the manner in