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know itself as to what has been done by me. Of course I should like to say this much that people come to me and repent for their sins, they become humble and getting away from meanness, they acquire very high morals. They begin to grow like vegetation and they begin to improve their morals and habits. Man does not make all the progress in just one step. The law of nature is that every thing makes progress gradually; there is nothing that is not under this law. Of course we are full of hope that ultimately the truth will spread and there will be a pi~us change. This is not my work; this is the work of God. He is determined that piety should be spread. The world has become rotten and a worm is eating it up. It is only the shell that has been left; there is no pith there. But God has now willed it that man should be purified and should have no blemish at all. It is for this, that through His grace, He has established this Dispensation. (Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 278) DO YOUR DUTY If the Ruler is a cruel person you should not go about talking ill of him; you should try to reform yourselves and make yourselves better in every way. God will remove him or make him a better man. Whatever hardship a man passess through, it is the outcome of his own evil deeds. Otherwise so far as a believer is concerned God is with him. God Himself provides him with ·every thing. My advice to you is that you should become a model of every virtue. You should neither be negligent in doing your duty to God nor you should be negligent in doing your duty to your fellow beings. (Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 298) WHOLLY AND SOLELY FOR GOD God manifests Himself in the person of a Muttaqi. Such a person is under the shadow of God. But let it be remembered that Taqwa must be very sincere and it should 109