Arba'in — Page 48
48 are from You, and I am a recipient of Your grace, then—O All- Powerful and Noble God!—grant my Community extraordinary progress and extraordinary blessings in the coming year! And bless my lifespan and send down heavenly assistance!’ And when this supplication has taken place, then all the opponents that are present should say A m i n! 1 ٭ It will be appropriate that all people come for this prayer with cleansed hearts, without any personal enmity and fervour. They should not consider it a matter of winning and losing, nor should they call it a mub a halah [prayer duel] as the entire gain or loss of this prayer is limited to me alone with no effect on the opponents. O elders! Obviously, disunity has intensified a lot, and due to this discord and your accusation and rejection, Islam is get- ting weak. Now that the membership of this Community has reached into the thousands, and every one of my followers has been denounced as a disbeliever, the extent of discord is obvious. At such a time, the love of Islam demands—just as we go into the wilderness for S al a tul-Istisq a’ [Prayer for Rain] in full humility— similarly, in this gathering we should adopt humility, and try to make earnest and heartfelt prayers with fervent tears in our eyes. Allah accepts the prayers of His sincere servants. Hence, if this mission is not from Him, and is a man-made operation and pre- tension, then the prayer of people under God’s mercy shall reach 1. ٭ Remember, this form of prayer does not qualify as a mub a halah, be- cause according to the Arabic lexicon and religious terminology, mub a- halah means that two opposite parties seek the wrath and curse of God for each other; but in this prayer, all the effect of the prayer is limit- ed only to my person, and there is no prayer against the other party. Author