Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 75
27 December 1907 75 It has been promised by God that Satan will die completely in the time of the last Messiah. Though Satan accompanies every person, the Satan of the Holy Prophet s as had become a Muslim [i. e. had submitted to the will of God]. The Philosophy of Satan being Repelled by لَحَوْل لَحَوْل [La Haul] Similarly, God Almighty had promised that Satan would be completely uprooted in this age [of the Promised Messiah]. You already know that Satan runs away from 1 لَحَوْل [ La haul ] But it is not so naïve that it would run away merely by your verbal proclamation of لَحَوْل. It would not run away even if لَحَوْل is recited like that a hundred times. The fact of the matter is that those who are permeated by لَحَوْل in every particle of their being, and who constantly beseech God Almighty alone for help and assistance, and who continually receive the blessings from Him—are the ones who are saved from Satan. And those are the people who will achieve success. The Need and Philosophy of Prayer God Almighty has begun the Holy Quran with a prayer and has ended it with a prayer as well. This signifies that man is so weak that without the grace of God, one cannot be cleansed, and without His help and assistance, one cannot excel in 1. The complete words are ْمِ، ی ِ ل َ حَوْل َ وَل َ قُوَّة َ إِل َّ بِاهلل ِ الْعَلِي ِّ الْعَظ ْمِ، ی ِ ل َ حَوْل َ وَل َ قُوَّة َ إِل َّ بِاهلل ِ الْعَلِي ِّ الْعَظ ‘there is no power nor strength except from Allah the High, the Exalted. ’ [Publisher]