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the power to attract spiritual bliss just as a branch cut off from the tree cannot be green by watering it. In order to be fully devoted what is most essential is that one should get himself cut off from one side and be grafted to the other. · He will have to graft himself with God and cut himself off from all his passions and leanings. Of course it does not mean that he will have nothing to do with this world and will get isolated from it. He will be in this world and yet away from it. This is real and true manliness and bravery. Getting away from the world actually means that he will not be affected and influenced by the worldly move, he will rather be devoted to the Cause of God. {Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 359) PREACHING TO RELATIVES It often comes to my i!Otice that you continue preaching to your relatives. It is a very good thing. One should always think over it as to how he can deliver the message to women as well as men. The Hadees tells us that the Head of a tribe will be questioned about his tribe, just as will the prophet of a nation. No opportunity that makes itself ava. ilable should ever be lost. Nobody knows how long he is to live. When the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, was told. Wa anzir asheeratakal aqraboon "You should warn your near relatives". he delivered the message to all of them. I also have preached to the women as well as to the men on various occasions; even now I occasionally preach to the womenfolk of the household. (Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 402) 114