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28 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wholly devoted to Him. For, while one maintains a relationship of trust and dependency on others, how can one purely trust Allah alone? When a person severs all their ties for the sake of God, they detach themselves from the world and forge a bond with God, and this occurs when they develop absolute trust in God. Just as our Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was a man perfectly and wholly devoted to God, so too, he possessed absolute trust in God. This is precisely the reason that he was not awed at all by powerful chieftains who commanded large peoples and tribes, and he was not even the least affected by their opposition. The Holy Prophet sas possessed an extraordinary belief in the being of God Almighty. This is how he undertook the magnificent burden that was placed on him and opposed the whole world, without consider - ing the people to have any power whatsoever. This is a formidable example of trust in God, which is unparalleled the world over, because in this a person gives precedence to God and the world becomes their opponent. However, this state does not develop within a person until they have, as if, seen God, and until they believe that after this, another door will surely open for them. When a person develops this belief and certainty, they are happy to bear the enmity of even their own relatives for the sake of God. For such people know that Allah will give them new friends. They will even give up their property because they know that they will be given something that is better. In summary, to be wholly devoted to God, excluding all else, is to give prec - edence to the pleasure of God. In truth, complete devotion to God and trust in God are twins, as it were. The secret that underpins complete devotion to God is trust in God, and the precondition for trust in God is complete devotion to God. This is my belief on the subject. ” 1 14 September 1901 After Maghrib Prayer Use of the Term ‘Mother of the Believers’ Certain people object to the use of the term Umm-ul-Mu’minin (Mother of the Believers) for the wife of the Promised Messiah as. On hearing this question, His Holiness, on whom be peace, said: “Those who raise this allegation reflect very little. These sorts of allegations show clearly that they are levelled purely on the basis of malice and jealousy; if the wives of the Prophets or the wives of their 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, p. 37, dated 10 October 1901, pp. 1-3 p. 303