Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 147
148 strive a great deal, but does their striving produce any good result for them? So far as we can see the efforts of such people are not producing the result as that of the good deeds of a righteous person, or even a thousandth part of his deeds. The Promised Messiah as says in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya : “In fact the belief in these two things is essential for prayer: first, that God Almighty has all the power to foster, develop, have mercy and give reward and that these perfect attributes of His are always in operation. Secondly, that man can achieve nothing without the Divine help and support. These two concepts, without doubt, are such that when they have taken root in the heart at the time of prayer they promptly work such a change in the condition of man that, being affected by them, even an arrogant person falls on the earth, and tears start running from the eyes of a haughty and hard-hearted one. This is the mechanism that infuses a heedless dead person with life. Every heart is drawn towards praying through these two concepts. In short, this is the spiritual means through which the soul of a person turns towards God and realizes its own weakness and that it is always in need of Divine help. It is through this realization that a person arrives at such a stage of selflessness in which no sign of his own filthy existence is left anymore and the majesty of the only Great Being shines forth and only that Being appears as All-Mercy and Support of every being and Remedy of every ill and Source of every grace. At last, a condition of being lost in God manifests