The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 228
228. Essence of Islām II towards God and becomes His; and its prostration is that, falling at the threshold of God, it loses itself altogether and wipes out its own being. This is the Ṣalāt which brings about a meeting between God and the worshipper. . The Islamic law depicts its picture in the shape of the daily Ṣalāt so that the physical Ṣalāt should urge a worshipper towards the spiritual Ṣalāt. . God Almighty has so constituted man that the soul and the body act and react upon each other. When the soul is sad, tears start from the eyes and when the soul is happy the countenance displays cheerfulness so that sometimes the person begins to laugh. In the same way when the body is hurt and feels pain, the soul also partakes of pain, and when the body is pleased with a breeze, the soul is also affected by it. Thus the purpose of physical worship is that on account of the relationship between the soul and body, the soul should be moved towards God and should occupy itself in spiritual bowing and prostration. [Lecture Sialkot, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 20, pp. 222-224]. To think that seeking help from God is sometimes without result and wondering that the Raḥmāniyyat and. Rahimiyyat of God do not manifest themselves in the shape of help, is the result of misunderstanding. God. Almighty surely hears the prayers that are offered in sincerity and helps the seekers of help as He considers proper. But sometimes it happens that the prayer and request for help of a person are not inspired by sincerity and lack the humility of the heart, and his spiritual condition is not up to the mark, so that while his lips utter the words of supplication his heart is inattentive or is only making a show. It also happens sometimes that God hears the supplication and bestows whatever He considers proper and most appropriate in His perfect Wisdom,