Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 231
Undated 231 on the body, while Prayer focuses on the soul. Prayer engenders passion and tenderness; that is why it is the more important of the two practices. While Fasting may sometimes lead to visions, this state can develop even in the yogis, but the spiritual tender- ness that Prayer can produce cannot be achieved through any other means. 1 Undated Interpretation of Dreams After the Friday Prayer, Master ‘Abdur-Ra hi m, the Second Master of Madrasah Akuna in Bahraich district, shared a dream he had seen the night before with the Promised Messiah as. He saw the Promised Messiah as giving him sweets with his blessed hand that contained dried coconut. He was looking at it but had not actually eaten the sweets when he suddenly woke up. The Promised Messiah as said: ‘Be grateful that you were at least given the sweets. ’ Another dream [related by Master ‘Abdur-Ra hi m]: ‘Some time ago I had seen another (dream). H u du r [His Holiness] was sitting on a bedstead and Muft i Muhammad Sa diq was sitting near him and nar- rating something from a book. As soon as I approached, H u du r said, 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 10, p. 2, dated 8 June 1905