Scattered Pearls — Page 65
64 to seek power from Him we have built for ourselves a small room for retiring into, for the sake of praying there in peace; and I prayed that Allah may turn this small room, this Masjidul Bait and Baitul Do'aa into the House of. Victory. " (Riwaayaat Hazrat Muftee Sahib, Zikr-i-Habeeb, pages 103 & 110). It is to be noted most carefully that this is real and true humility before God, that, while being the Sultanul. Qalam (King of the pen), and eminently victorious in this field, as against the grace and favour of God, in utmost sincerity of feeling, he tenders an unqualified admission of the weakness of his pen, even to the extent of nothingness. . This is the real and sincere feeling of humility before Allah which prompted him to write in one of his poems : “I am a mere worm of the earth,. Not even fit to be. Called a human being;. For men an object of contempt,. And for human beings. A source of disgrace and shame;. People say that one unworthy. Is never acceptable before God;. But Lo and Behold, for, verily,. I have been vouchsafed admittance. To the Blessed Audience,. Even though I am so unworthy !”. The truth is that the whole secret of man's sucsess lies in help from Allah. In the field of religion this help comes through prayer and supplication; while in matters of this world it comes through a strict adoption of the divinely provided material means recessary for the purpose. is the reason why all the Prophet of God, the Auliya, and the saints have laid the utmost stress upon Prayer, in all times and all circumstances, this being the central link. This