Lecture Sialkot — Page 32
32 L ECTURE S IALKOT shall finally receive Divine bounties. The God to Whom I invite is very Gracious, Merciful, Modest, True, and Faithful. He bestows His mercy on the humble ones. You too should be faithful and pray with all sincerity and faith so that He may bestow His mercy on you. Dissociate yourselves from the com- motion of the world and do not give religious complexion to your egoistic disputes. Accept defeat for the sake of God so that you may become heirs to great victories. God will show miracles to those who supplicate and those who ask will be blessed with ex- traordinary grace. Prayer comes from God and to Him it returns. Through prayer God becomes as close to you as your very life. The first blessing of prayer is that it brings about a holy change in a person, as a consequence of which God also brings about a transformation in His attrib- utes. His attributes are indeed immutable, but for such a transformed person He shows a different manifesta- tion of which the world knows nothing. It would seem as if He had become another God, whereas, in fact, there is no other God. The truth is that it is a new manifestation of His which portrays Him in an alto- gether different light. It is then that God, in honour of this special manifestation, does for the transformed one what He does not do for others. These are what are known as miracles.