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250 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad that I wrote was revealed to me by God. The couplet is: ّق� ا ےہ ت ی یک ڑج �یہ ا� �یک ن � رہ اک ارگ �یہ ڑج ریہ بس ھچک راہ ےہ The root of every good is righteousness; If this root is preserved, everything will survive. The second verse in this couplet is a revelation from God. Where righteousness does not exist, no good is good and no virtue is virtue. In praise of the Holy Quran, Allah the Exalted states: 1 َ ْن ی ِ لِّلْمُتَّق ی ً هُد It is a guidance for the righteous. Even the Quran can only be a guidance for those who embrace righteousness. When a person begins to study the Holy Quran, righteousness means that they should not look at the Holy Quran with ignorance, jealousy and spite; rather, they ought to read the Holy Quran with the righteousness of an enlightened heart and with sincere intention. The second condition for the acceptance of prayer is that one must feel a pain in their heart for the person for whom they are praying. Allah the Exalted states: 2 ُ دَعَاه ُّجِيْبُ الْمُضْطَرَّ اِذَا ی ْ اَمَّن Or, Who answers the distressed person when he calls upon Him. The third condition is that one finds a time of pure communion with God. A time when there is nothing between a servant and their Lord. The Holy Quran speaks of the Night of Destiny and that it is better than a thousand months. In this instance, the Night of Destiny has three meanings. Firstly, there is a Night of Destiny during the month of Ramadan. Secondly, the era of the Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was also a Night of Destiny, as it were. That is to say, after the darkness of extreme ignorance and faithlessness, there was the dawn of a new age which ushered the descent of angels. For the Prophets do not come to the world alone. They are kings, and they come with an army of hundreds and thousands, nay, tens of millions of angels—angels who take to their tasks and pull the hearts of people towards virtue. Thirdly, a person’s Night of 1 al-Baqarah, 2:3 2 an-Naml, 27:63 p. 229