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93 sake of God. The circuit is a sign of the lovers of God. The lovers go round it, as if they are left with no will of their own, and around Him they lay down their lives. ” 47 So, this is what constitutes the heavenly Hajj. Unless a person performs the Hajj of the heavenly House of Allah, his Hajj on earth is not accepted. Thus, those who perform the Hajj, or intend to do it should not neglect this point. On our part we perform apparent religious rituals but about the intrinsic worship, which is under the order of God, we know nothing whether that has been accepted or not. Why should there be then any pride, vanity, conceit, love of the self or egoism. This distances one even farther from his Lord. One should be grateful and sing songs of Allah’s praise, but that, too, should be done in the manner described by the Promised Messiah as. He says, when a beloved servant of God is engaged in the worship of his Lord and cries in prostration with meekness and humbleness, if seen by someone in that state, he is as much mortified as someone seen while engaged in worldly pursuit [sexual intercourse]. Thus, these discourses of love are not to be disclosed. They are a secret between man and his Lord. That is why the Promised Messiah as says that the world does not know them for they are beyond and far higher than the world. But anybody who forsakes God for the sake of getting closer to the world and shuns spiritual elevations and loftiness, and stoops down to the earth so as to become famous in the world, and to be extolled, he attains the world but is distanced from God