An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 241
241 in this connection was really a symptom of the real disease from which unbelieving people generally suffer. If the plague was a visitation from God, all precautionary measures and medicines could be of no avail, and if the cause of the pestilence lay in the physical world, moral and spiritual reform, then the prayer could remove it. So the Promised Messiah as thought it fit to clarify this apparent contradiction by writing a book entitled Ayy a mu s - S ula h. In this book, the Promised Messiah as undertook to describe a fine link between Prayer and Planning ( tadb i r ). It is proven by the laws of nature that there is a close link between Prayer and tadb i r … The Promised Messiah as says: It is through the prayer that one should seek the path of tadb i r 19. Therefore, the Prayer and tadb i r are two facets of the human endeavour and intellect. It is therefore necessary that man should seek the path of tadb i r through prayer. ( Ayy a mu s - S ula h, p. 3, R uha n i Khaz a’ in vol. 14, p. 231) Further, the Promised Messiah as devoted several pages in writing a fine commentary of on the wisdom of the first chapter, s u rah al-F a ti h ah of the Holy Quran. By dwelling on each word of this chapter, the Promised Messiah as said this is a key to successful prayer, stressing the fact the very name of the chapter signifies. The Promised Messiah as explained the significance and the use of prayer, because when the objection mentioned above is carefully examined, it only amounts to a doubt as to the efficacy of prayer. He pointed out that prayer was ingrained in the nature of man. His natural anxiety at the time of trouble and distress was to suggest only a kind of prayer in its crudest form. There was no contradiction between prayer and the adoption of necessary means to an end. A prayer is ordinarily a request addressed to God to enable man to find out the right means to an end. It is really a search for the right way. 19 The process of planning.