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object which frightens him. But the fear of God and His love are of a different nature. The more a man advances in the fear of God, the more he begins to love Him. And the more he loves God, the more the fear of God begins to. grip him fast and remove him away from the evil deeds and make him pure. Jn order to fulfil both these things, Islam has enjoined its followers to offer (five daily) prayers and to perform Hajj. The prayer manifests the aspect of fear while the Hajj depicts the love of God. Whatever the fear demands, we have it in various postures of the prayer: a man humbles himself and admits his being the servant of God. Whatever is done during the Hajj shows different ways of love. In the extreme con- dition of love, at times, one does not feel the need of clothes; love is also a sort of madness and a lover cannot be looking after his clothes to maintain their fineness. There was a woman at Sialkot and she was in love with a tailor-master. The people tried all they could to restrain her but she would tear off her clothes and run to him. This condition of the dress is to be met with in the ceremonies of Ha. ii ; one has to shave off his head ; one has to run; one has to kiss- this is the kiss of aff- ection (all the religions have taken kissing to be a sign of affection). Slaughtering of the ram (sacrifice) is also a sign of excellence of love. Islam has given a comprehensive teaching for these two rights of God. Ignorant is the person who, because of his spiritual blindness objects to these things. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 298-300) DO APPROPRIATE DEEDS The real object of raising the prophets is that they should produce the sort of Faith in God which enables a man to do appropriate deeds and which also turns the nature of 169