The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 195
Prayer 195 everything, but determination has not wasted or disgraced knowledge, nor has it rendered means unreliable. . Careful consideration would show that physical and spiritual means are not outside determination. For instance, if the fate of a patient should be good, the means of a proper remedy become available and the body becomes ready to take advantage of them. In such a case, the remedy becomes most effective. The same is the case with prayer. All means and conditions for the acceptance of prayer come together where the Divine design is of acceptance. God Almighty has tied together His physical and spiritual systems in the same chain of causes and effects. It is a great mistake on the part of Sayyed Ṣāḥib that he acknowledges the physical system but denies the spiritual system. . I deem it necessary to add that if Sayyed Ṣāḥib does not repent of his wrong assumption and should require proof of the acceptance of prayer, I have been commissioned by. God to dispel such misconceptions. I promise that I shall inform Sayyed Şāḥib in advance of the acceptance of some of my prayers and will also publish the fact, provided. Sayyed Ṣāḥib promises that on my claim being established he will repent of his wrong assumption. . Must All Prayers be Accepted?. Sayyed Şahib says that in the Holy Qur'an God Almighty has promised acceptance of all prayers while the fact is that some prayers are not accepted. This is a misunderstanding on his part and the verse: ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ 54 54 Pray unto Me, I will answer your prayer. " '-Al-Mu'min, 40:61 [Publisher]