Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 381
SUB-FOOTNOTE NUMBER THREE قل ان كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني يحببكم الله واعلموا ان الله يحى الارض بعد موتها. ومن كان الله كان الله له قل ان افتريته فعلی اجرام شدید۔ Say, 'If you love Allah, then follow me'; meaning, be sincere followers of the chosen Prophet so that Allah may also love you. And know that Allah revives the earth anew. And Allah becomes his, who devotes himself to Allah. Say, 'If I have invented a slander, the heavy sin thereof is on me. ' انك اليوم لدينا مكين امين وان عليك رحمتى فى الدنيا والدين وانك من المنصورين Today you are a man of established position, and trustworthy, and My mercy is upon you in [matters of] the world and the faith and you have been helped. و يمشى اليك يحمد الله وي God praises you and is coming towards you. الا ان نصر الله قريب۔ Hearken! The help of Allah is nigh. سبحان الذي اسرى بعبده ليلا Holy is He who took His servant on a journey during the night. That is, in the age of darkness and misguidance, which resem- bles the night, God has, of His own, guided [me] to the stages of divine insight and certainty. خلق أدم فاكرمه - He created Adam and thus honoured him. جرى الله في حلل الانبياء - 381 The Champion of Allah in the mantle of the Prophets. This revealed sentence means that the status of admonition and guid- ance and of being the recipient of divine revelation is, in fact, a mantle