The subject of the book [Seerat-ul-Abdal] is about the signs of pious persons. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad probably chose this subject to make it easier to pick out Arabic words from the classic Arabic dictionary, Lisaan Al-Arab. Many of the words are very uncommon and arcane.
Many of the sentences in this book describe the pious persons in the following formula:
They are like X and they are not like Y, where X is any arcane word from Lisaan Al-Arab that means something good, and Y is any equally strange word from Lisaan Al-Arab that means something ugly or bad. Here is a page made from a sequence of words beginning with 'khaa':
Highlighted Words
- They do not keep themselves far from God and they do not split up (KHARTHAL)!
- They look like a wet plant (KHADEL) and they would not be injured!
- They walk upon the earth modestly and they do not have slack potbellies (KHANTHAL)!
- You don't see them like a hyena (UMM KHANTHAL) but they would be seen like a genius fat boy! (It took a long time to find Al-BABBU in Lisaan al 'Arab))
From the 'saad' section
Many of the above sentences do not transfer any complete or valid idea, and use words from one part of the dictionary.
Copying from Muallaqat - Labeed by Rabeea
Verses from the same poem in the 'revelations' of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad:
The poem of Labeed bin Rabeea:
