Blessings of Prayer — Page 13
13 without any effect whatsoever! Is it possible that there should be disharmony in the Divine order, and that the Will which God has manifested in medicines for the benefit of His creatures should fail to manifest itself in the case of prayers? This is definitely not so. The fact is that Sayyid Sahib is himself unaware of the true philosophy of prayer and has no personal experience of its profound effects. He is like a person who uses an old, discarded and expired medicine for a long time, and then, finding it ineffective, declares the medicine to be without any effect. It is a pity that though Sayyid Sahib has reached old age, the system of Divine order has eluded him and he has failed to understand how Destiny and Predetermination has been closely linked to causes, nor does he understand the deep, indispensable and interdependent relation- ship between cause and effect. This is why he fell into the error of thinking that things can take place without the coming into play the physical and spiritual causes appointed by nature. Of course, there is nothing that has not been Preordained, and all the things that man makes use of, such as fire, water, air, soil, corn, vegetables, animals and minerals, have been ordained for him; nevertheless, if some fool were to imagine that anything can be gained without all the means that