Blessings of Prayer — Page 23
23 prayer be of any help on the Day of Judgement? Think and reflect carefully, if prayer is indeed a vain thing and cannot be a means for the removal of any calamity in present life, then how will it become the means for doing the same on the Day of Resurrection? It is only too clear that if our prayers truly possess the quality of safeguarding us against calamities, then this quality should manifest itself in this world also, so that our faith and our hope may be strengthened and we may pray even more earnestly for our salvation in the hereafter. But if prayer amounts to nothing and that which has been predestined is bound to happen, then just as prayer is useless for the tribulations of this world—according to Sayyid Sahib—it should also be useless to pin any hopes on it in the hereafter. I do not wish to elaborate upon this subject, because all fair-minded readers who study my exposition carefully will understand that I have given sufficient evidence to prove how completely Sayyid Sahib is mistaken in his belief. If Sayyid Sahib still does not abandon his obstinacy, I will give him an alternative which will take the matter to its conclusion. If he is a true seeker after truth, he will surely not back away.