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240 the righteous. He thus had mercy on me, gave me refuge, assisted me, nourished me and made me one of the honoured ones. He made me out of His mercy the Reformer of this century, the Promised Messiah, and of those whom He blesses with His discourse. He removed grief from me and gave me what no one in the world was ever given. All this is owing to the blessing of following the Holy Prophet, the unlettered one, and loving those who are granted nearness to Allah. O Allah, bless and prosper the Best of the Messengers and Kh a tamul-Anbiy a’ [the Seal of the Prophets], Mu h ammad, who is the Best of all Mankind. By Allah, Ab u Bakr was the Holy Prophet’s constant compan- ion in the two holy cities and in the two tombs as well. Here I refer, firstly, to the ‘tomb’ of the cave wherein he concealed himself as if he were dead, and, secondly, to the tomb that is in Madinah, which is adjacent to the tomb of Khairul-Bariyyah [i. e. the Best of Creation—the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as ]. Think, therefore, of the [high] status of a s - S idd i q if you are a people who reflect. Allah has praised him and his Khil a fah in the Quran and praised him in the highest terms. There is no doubt that he is accepted and loved by Allah. Foolish is the one who begrudges his status. The impurity which infected Islam was wiped away by his Khil a fah. The felicity of Muslims became complete due to his compassion. The pillar of Islam would well have crumbled, had a s - S idd i q, the friend of the Best of Mankind, not been present. He found Islam like a weak person—sick and emaciated and barely in his senses, so he rose to restore its beauty and splendour in a masterful way and hastened to revive the lost Islam until it had regained the agility of its body, the softness of its cheeks, the charm of its beauty, and the sweetness of its pure water. All this came to pass because of the truth of this honest servant of God. He defeated the enemy and turned the situ- ation around. He never sought any reward for this; his reward was only with Allah. No day or night rose upon him except that he was