Blessings of Prayer — Page 4
Barak a tud Du‘ a 4 The critics’ contention that this is no longer the age for such prophecies, is a mere statement commonly uttered by people. I, however, believe that this is the age for the acceptance of the immutable and perfect truths and verities, and there has probably never been such an age. It is true that no fraud or deceit can remain hidden in this age, but this is all the more pleasing for the righteous, because only a person who knows how to differentiate between truth and falsehood can truly appreciate the truth and embrace it with joy and eagerness. There is such attraction in the truth that it draws people towards itself. Evi- dently, people of this age are accepting hundreds of new facts which their forefathers did not accept. If the people of the age are not thirsty for the truth, then what is the reason for the beginning of such a won- derful revolution? The present age, undoubtedly, is a friend, and not foe, of the truth. To say that this is the age of wise people and gone is the time of the simple- minded, amounts to the condemnation of the age, as if to say, that this is an evil time in which people refuse to accept the truth even after they have recognized it. But I can never accept this to be the case; because I find that the majority of those turning to me and benefiting from me are such as have had modern education, and some have even attained BA and MA