Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part IV — Page 407
SUB-FOOTNOTE NUMBER THREE صد شعاعش می رہی چون آفتاب تا نماند طالب دیں در حجاب You grant him countless rays like the sun, So that no seeker of faith may languish in the dark, تاز تاریکی بر آید عالم تا نشان یا بند از کویت ہے So that a whole world may come out of darkness, So that people may find the way to Your path. صد نشان بینند و غافل بگذرند زیں نشانہا بدرگان کور و کراند But the mischievous are blind and deaf to these Signs; They witness hundreds of them but pass them by in heedlessness. عشق ظلمت دشمنی با آفتاب شب پران سرمدی جان در حجاب They love darkness and oppose the sun; They are the eternal bats and their souls are in veils of darkness. سید عشاق حق شمس الضحى آن شد عالم که نامش مصطفی The sovereign of the world whose name is Mustafāsaw He is the chief of the lovers of God and the sun at its growing brightness. آنکہ ہر نورے طفیل نور اوست آنکه منظور خدا منظور اوست Verily, all light is due to his light; Whoever is accepted by him is accepted by God. آنکہ بہر زندگی آب رواں در معارف بھیجو بحر بیکراں He is the flowing water of life; He is the boundless ocean of knowledge and wisdom. آنکه بر صدق و کمالش در جہاں صد دلیل و حجت روشن عیاں He is the one in the support of whose truth and perfection, Hundreds of proofs and luminous Signs have been shown to the world. 407