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(actions) is against the Commandments of God and the Mess- enger, know it for certain that he has not been commissioned by God to reform the people; he is a friend of the Satan. A true Guide is he who puts whatever he comes across, right. Of course, it is true, that he does not like to humiliate anybody;he diagnoses the disease and administers treatment. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 371) PRAY WITH HUMILITY You should be praying to God and you should be asking fo the forgiveness of your sins. God is independent and does not starid in need of anyone. Nobody is a ruler over Him. Why should He care for the man who does not approach Him in humility? Behold, if a beggar asks for something by making himself humble and talking of his poverty, he is sure to be treated nicely. But if a man rides a horse and begs for some- thing and tells the person from whom he is begging, that if , he did not give him anything he would beat him with a stick, what do you think, how will he be treated. Will he not be beaten with a stick? To beg God, conditioning one's faith that if God won't give him what he is asking for, he would no more believe in Him, is a great mistake. Of course it is necessary that one should be steadfast and sincere in one's prayers. This is quite different from wrongful persistance. It is a big mistake and in fact atheism, that one should say that if I am not granted what I am asking, I shall no more believe in God. It is ignorance of the etiquettes of the prayers. Such people are not aware of the philosophy of the prayer. God has no where said in the Holy Quran that He will accept every prayer according to the will of the person who prays. I do admit that it is said in the Holy Quran: 180