Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 151
152 Divine scheme of things and should not be against the welfare of the supplicant, or the one on whose behalf he prays, both in this world and the hereafter. It often happens that although all other conditions have been fulfilled, the object prayed for happens to be against the Divine scheme of things with regard to the supplicant, and no good can come of granting such a prayer. ” 74 The conditions of acceptance of supplications laid out here by the Promised Messiah as , that is, righteousness, purity, perfect certainty and perfect love etcetera are about the acceptance which is like a chosen one. But the acceptance of a supplication which has to be a trial has nothing to do with these conditions. The Promised Messiah as has expounded on this topic at length. He says that sometimes Allah shows true dreams even to prostitutes so as to provide them means for guidance, and so that He may inspire them to come out of the filth and rush towards this fountainhead and source of purity and strive to purify themselves. But if the heart of a supplicant is not enlightened with the light of righteousness; or his bosom is devoid of the scent of purity; or his tongue is not tend to speaking the truth and his heart is not imbued with perfect certainty and perfect love; or his mind does not prostrate before his Lord with full and perfect attention; or the thing supplicated for does not bear him good in the sight of ۡ ۡ ِ ب (the Possessor of the knowledge of the unseen) in all these circumstances the prayer is met with rejection. But in the last case Allah the Exalted recompenses such prayer in some other way. The Promised Messiah as says in this regard: