The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 70
Third Friday Senno11 Aug 24, 1990 in the power and importance of prayer. Therefore, it would have been useless to suggest the recipe of prayers for those who had lost hope in the power of prayer. You may scan the statements of Muslim leaders suggesting that we must run towards America to implore for help and shelter. Someone else is advising to make peace with Iran or is talking of other plans for his own reassurance. But no one, not even a single country, has said anything about going into the shelter of Allah and the shelter of Muhammad. . . , the Messenger of Allah! No one has reminded them that 'O Muslims! this is the time of prayer, the hour of supplications, because it is only through prayer that you will achieve victory over the enemy. ' There is only one Jamaal - and indeed only the Jamaal (Community) of the Messiah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad'"" - about whom Allah had so decreed that if the world of Islam was ever to be saved, it would be through the prayers of this Community. But there is one condition, that they should seek refuge in the eminence of Muhammad "' and should seek guidance from his teachings, his character and his noble practices. So, even if a temporary solution for this whole predicament is proposed, then one thing is certain, the solution will make the people living in the Middle East, and for that matter, the whole world, worse off. An extremely dreadful situation is in the offing, and as far as the real diseases and the afflictions are concerned, they will find no solution. If a solution does exist, it is with you, i. e. with the Jamaal of the Messiah of Muhammad. . . . You should supplicate and continue to supplicate because this period of agony is bound to be protracted. The situation will have many reversals and will enter into many new phases. Therefore, it is still not too late to pray. We are a Community who pray in any case, but in view of the world situation today, in view of the analysis that I have presented before you, I assure you that besides prayer there is no panacea for the afflictions of the world, and of the Muslim Ummah. You should also pray for the Western nations, that Allah may grant them wisdom. They have repeatedly tried to solve the problems of the world through clever political maneuverings and high-level diplomacy; yet they failed on every. occasion. Not once have their crafty moves been of any benefit to the world. This is s o because their cleverness is motivated and guided by purely selfish interests. True 70