Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 78
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 78 This is how, filled with passion, he ought to run toward Prayer. However, once he has attained guidance, this condition will dissipate, and a sense of pleasure will develop in the Prayer. The series of distractions will end, and a state of peace and serenity will commence. It is narrated that someone misplaced something. He said, just wait, during Prayer I will remember where I placed it. Such Prayer is not the Prayer of the perfect [believers] as Satan causes distractions in it. However, when they attain perfection in belief, they will always be in a state of Prayer. Trade valued in the thousands of rupees and other interests of similar value would be incapable of causing any interference and hindrance. In the same way, other conditions would not remain in name alone but would reflect the actual state of the person, and the individual will advance from the state of [belief in] the unseen to the state of seeing. These stages are not simply for reciting in the manner that stories are recited to you, making you happy after listening for a little while. No! This is a treasure. Do not let go of it. Take it out. It is in your very own home, and you can attain it with ever so little effort and exertion. If someone has a well and it is in his own home, how unfor- tunate would he be if he had no knowledge of it? Similarly, who would be more unfortunate than that Muslim who is given the promise by God Almighty that He would honour him with His word, but he does not heed Him? This is the immense grace of God Almighty and it is unique to Islam. Ask any A rya if he can show so much as a promise [of God]; they cannot even show this. Mourned and dead is the religion upon whose revelation a seal has been placed; desolate and deserted is that orchard upon which autumn has taken control, but spring cannot affect it. What an occasion for pity and astonishment that no seal was placed on human nature which continues to hunger and