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300 door of nearness to Allah the Exalted is not shut for him, rather, he too could achieve His Grace in the same way as earlier people did. If you have a sincere and firm belief that the door to the Grace and reward of Allah the Exalted is open for you and all spiritual development is possible for you, then it is impossible that God will not grant you nearness. Most certainly He will open the doors to His nearness for you and you will sense that He has come close to you. It is like if you have fire burning in your room, there is no way you can deny the existence of the fire because you would begin to feel its heat. Similarly, if you have the belief that doors of limitless spiritual development are open for you, and your God is not niggardly, then most certainly not only will you feel His closeness, rather, you will begin to see Him with your spiritual eyes. ” At least Fifteen Generations will have to be Devoted Huzur ra delivered an intensely dynamic Sermon as regards life devotion on 14 th October 1955, which began as follows: “The task that the Promised Messiah as has entrusted to us, or should I say the task that Allah the Exalted has entrusted to us through the Promised Messiah as , is so tremendous that the heart trembles at its very thought. At this time there are two hundred million non-Muslims in this world and the task entrusted to us is to convert these two hundred million non- Muslims to Islam. In the last thirteen hundred years only 500 million people have accepted Islam, thus at