Blessings of Prayer — Page 14
Barak a tud Du‘ a 14 God has appointed for the purpose, and without proceeding in the way that has been determined by nature, and without the mediation of physical or spiritual means, such a person seeks only to falsify the wisdom of God Almighty. The only meaning I can give to Sayyid Sahib’s words is that he does not regard prayer to be one of those effective causes whose existence he has proclaimed to the point of exaggeration. For instance, if the properties of fire are mentioned before Sayyid Sahib, he will never deny them and will never say that if burning has been preordained for someone he will burn even without the medium of fire. I am, therefore, surprised that despite being a Muslim he denies the effectiveness of prayer which at times lights up the darkness like fire and sometimes burns the hand of an impertinent foe. Does Sayyid Sahib only think of Predestination when it comes to prayer and forget it when fire and other elements are mentioned? Is it not the same Prede- termination that affects both? Although Sayyid Sahib believes in Predetermination, he at the same time vehemently believes in the physical means, and his exaggeration in this regard has even earned him a bad name, why then does he forget the system of nature which he himself professes when it comes to prayer?