Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 200
Justice (‘ Adl ), Benevolence ( Ihsan ) & Kinship ( Ita’i Dhil-Qurba ) in Worship 195 to happen, then out of consideration for them God would make their predictions come true. 18 It is similar to the case where a loving and beloved child has certain expectations of his parents and vice versa; because of the close mutual relationship that exists between parents and child, each tries to live up to the expectations of the other. We cannot term this as prayer, but it does bear some resemblance to the concept of prayer. For example, let us consider the case of a child who was accustomed to taking his meals out and not eating with the family. The family may not have known what he intended, or that outside in the street some very poor children were waiting for him. He would distribute all his meals to the poor children and retire by himself to a corner of the nearby mosque to eat some grains he had in his pocket, and some raw sugar lumps called Gurr (raw sugar produced from sugarcane) in the Punjabi language. Thereby he would relieve his hunger. This is a case which certainly extends the limits of I h s a n and enters the realm of I t a ’i Dhil-Qurb a. It is seldom that even a mother would make such sacrifices for her children. This is not an imaginary case, it happened almost day in and day out to the Founder of the Ahmadiyya Community, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , when he was a small child. Intercession by Prophets as (on behalf of their followers) is actually a sublime facet of prayer and a