Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 177
Malfuzat - Volume I 177 The reason I have related these incidents is to explain that until there is a relationship between a person who makes a request for prayers and the individual to whom they make the request, there can be no effect of prayer. Hence, until there is a state of agony, and until a supplicant feels as perturbed as the one who requested them for prayer, there can be no effect of supplication. At times the greatest trial is that people are unaware of the etiquettes of prayer, and on account of their inability to see any manifest benefit in prayer, they begin to think ill of God Almighty and their state becomes a pitiable one. In the end I say that whether you pray yourself or request someone else to pray for on your behalf, you must develop purity and cleanliness. Seek steadfastness and submit in a state of repentance, for this is steadfastness. It is then that your prayers s will be accepted and it is then that you will experience pleasure in Prayer. ذلِكَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ That is Allah's grace; He bestows it on whom He pleases. ² The End 1 2 al-Jumu'ah, 62:5 A piece of writing by the Promised Messiah*s and a letter on the doctrine of Oneness of Being (wahdat- e-wujud) compiled by Sheikh Yaqub Ali Irfani".