Blessings of Khilafat — Page 166
166 That is, We extend our help to everyone. One who strives for the world, gets it; and one who strives for God, get Him. This is a blessing which is bestowed only by God, for your Lord has not shut the door of His forgiveness to anyone. Therefore, if you will strive for God, you will surely meet Him. Stages of Spiritual Development God has set seven stages of development for human soul. Any lack that occurs and impinges on this development occurs due to man’s own habits. God, in the Holy Quran, states about the prayer: 19 That is: Go not near to the prayer when you are intoxicated. . . Intoxication does not simply imply drinking, since it was forbidden at that time and still is. So, when it is already forbidden, what does this injunction imply when it says that ‘one should not come to the mosque being intoxicated’? There is no doubt that a drinker has also been told to not to come to the mosque, but this injunction is like that of a father who tells his ill-bred child to stay out of the home unless he mends his habits; so similar is the command in which He has prohibited a drinker from coming to the mosque. This verse has another meaning also, which is that just as a drinker is not aware of what he is saying and how he is offering his prayer, 19 S u rah an-Nis a ’ , 4:44