Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 245
4 July 1905 245 of prayer and do not know how much attention and effort is required for prayer to reach its true target. 1 Praying requires essentially to embrace a certain kind of death. 2 4 July 1905 The Greatest Mischief of this Age This humble one [ Hadrat Muft i Muhammad Sa diq ra ] presented a British newspaper in which there was some rebuke about Christianity. The Promised Messiah as said: Christianity is decaying all on its own, but the great mischief of this age is the atheistic science. God forbid it gets a lengthy respite, for then the whole world would be willing to adopt atheism. Science and religion are competing at this time. Christianity is a weak religion and has therefore fallen immedi- ately before science, but Islam is powerful and will overcome it. Insh a ’All a h [God willing]. 3 1. From Badr : But I am helpless in the matter of such attention developing; it can happen by Allah the Exalted bestowing the ability. The prayers of the Messenger of God, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, were ac- cepted. However, when one of the Companions, a newly married young man, died after being bitten by a snake, and others even asked to pray for him, he said, ‘Go and bury your brother. ’ People do not understand the real secret of prayer ( Badr, vol. 1, no. 14, p. 2, dated 10 July 1905). 2. Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 24, p. 10, dated 10 July 1905 3. Badr, vol. 1, no. 14, p. 2, dated 6 July 1905