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1 May 1908 331 worldly works will also become as though the fulfilment of your religious duties. Man has not been created for the world. If the heart is cleansed and one is constantly keen and anxious to some- how please God, then the world also becomes lawful for him. 1 ِ َعْـمَال ُ بِالنِّیَّات إِنَّـمَا الْأ ِ َعْـمَال ُ بِالنِّیَّات إِنَّـمَا الْأ [‘Verily, deeds are (judged) by intentions’]. 2 (After Friday Prayers) The Need to Accept the Promised Messiah as It was asked, ‘We believe with sincerity of heart in Allah, His Book— the Holy Quran—and His Messenger Muhammad, the Chosen One s as and follow all the tenets such as Prayer and Fasting etc. —then what is the need for us to believe in you as well?’ The Promised Messiah as said: Look, a person who claims to have belief in Allah, His Messenger, and His Book, but does not put into practice the details of their injunctions such as Prayer, Fasting, Hajj [the Pilgrimage], Zakat [almsgiving], righteousness and cleanli- ness etc. , and foregoes all the injunctions ordained for self-pu- rification, for eschewing evil and pursuing rectitude, does not deserve to be called a Muslim. And it cannot be said about him that he is adorned with the ornaments of faith. Similarly, a person who does not accept the Promised Messiah or does not realize the need of accepting him, he, too, is utterly igno- rant of the essence of Islam, the scope of prophethood, and the 1. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a b Bad’ul-Wa hi , B a b Kaifa K a na Bad’ul-Wa hi il a Ras u l- ill a hi, Hadith 1 [Publisher] 2. Al- H akam, vol. 12, no. 49,50, p. 3–4, dated 26,30 August 1908