With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 49
49 reveals to many of them through dreams, visions and revelations, the fulfilment of which as predicted im- mensely enriches the quality of Ahmadiyya faith. This is the greatest blessing they are granted by respond- ing to the call of the Imam who throughout his life is a living Sign of the power of prayer and teaches his follow- ers to directly reach God and make it a constant habit to remember Him, to pray to Him and to seek His help every moment of their lives. Following is an excerpt from the writings of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (on him be peace) about the need and power of prayer: "Have you any notion of the strange things that happened in the desert of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a short time and those who had been misguided through generations put on divine colour, and those who were blind obtained sight, and those who had been dumb began to speak of the understanding of the Divine, and the world underwent a revolution which had never been seen or heard of before. It was the supplications during dark nights of one who had lost himself in God which brought about this transformation, and manifested such wonders as appeared impossible in the case of that unlettered and forlorn prophet. Send down Thy blessings and peace O Allah on him and his people according to the amount of grief and sorrow he felt for his fellows and pour down upon him the light of Thy mercy for ever. " (Barak a t-ud-Du‘ a , R uha n i Khaz a’ in, vol. 6, pp. 10-11)