Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 388
388 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA PART FOUR with the oil of gladness above your fellows. Because the ulema of ummat-e-Muhammadiyyah are like the Israelite Prophets, this humble one is metaphorically likened to Hadrat Mūsā in the above-mentioned revelation. All of these blessings belong to Hadrat Sayyidur-Rusul [the Chief of the Messengers], that God the Benevolent honours his hum- ble followers with such noble discourses out of His great favours and benevolence. اللهم صل على محمد و آل محمد ] our Allah, send down Your blessings upon Muhammad and upon the progeny of Muhammad]. After this are the following revealed sentences: واذا قيل لهم أمنوا كما أمن الناس قالوا انؤمن كما أمن السفهاء الا انهم هم السفهاء ولكن لا يعلمون و يحبون ان تدهنون قل يايها الكفرون لا أعبد ما تعبدون قيل ارجعوا الى الله فلا ترجعون وقيل استحوذوا فلا تستحوذون ام تسئلهم من خرج فهم من مغرم مثقلون بل اتيناهم بالحق فهم للحق كارهون سبحانه وتعالى عما يصفون احسب الناس ان يتركوا ان يقولوا أمنا وهم لا يفتنون يحبون ان يحمدوا بما لم يفعلوا ولا يخفى على الله خافية ولا يصلح شيء قبل اصلاحه ومن ردّ من مطبعه فلا مرد له When it is said to them, 'Believe as other people have believed, they say, 'Shall we believe as the foolish have believed?' Beware! It is surely they that are foolish, but they do not know. They wish you to compromise with them. Say, 'O ye disbelievers! I worship not that which you worship. You were told to revert to Allah, but you do not come back. You were admonished to overpower your sinful inclinations, but you do not over- power them. Do you ask for any recompense for which they feel encumbered and imagine that acceptance of truth is a heavy burden? Nay! They have been given the truth at no cost, and they still hate the truth. Holy is Allah and far above the faults that they attribute to Him! Do these people think that by merely making a verbal profession of faith they would be left alone without being put to test? They long for praise for what they have not done. There is nothing that is hidden from God Almighty. As long as Allah does not reform something,