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xvii if one is not blessed with this favour, then his soulless practice is no better than a dead carcass that the formalists carry about their bosoms. God knows well that, in writing this booklet, I have been prompted solely by the love I bear for the Holy Prophet (May peace and blessings of Allah be on him) so that if God so wills, a spark of his love may ignite the hearts of its readers, the spark that is the soul of every virtuous act and life of every moral excellence; and that they may listen to the observations of their most loved master with sincere piety and heartfelt devotion and make them their life-amulets and that, it may also be for me, a means of Allah’s forgiveness and protection and of the Prophet’s intercession, Amen! O Lord of Mercy, Most Compassionate of all the Merciful. Mirza Bashir Ahmad of Qadian, Rattan Bagh, Lahore November 13, 1950