Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 481
17 October 1907 481 17 October 1907 (During the Walk) The Essence of the Principle of Worship A person asked, ‘What image of Allah, the Lord of Glory, should be in view when standing in Prayer?’ The Promised Messiah as said: It is a straightforward matter that is written in the Holy Quran, 1 ُهْوُعْدا َنْيِصِلْخُم ُهَل َنْيِّدلا ُهْوُعْدا َنْيِصِلْخُم ُهَل َنْيِّدلا ُ ُ God Almighty should be remembered with sincerity and His favours should be greatly studied. There should be sincerity, gratefulness, and such an inclination towards Him that He alone is the Lord and True Guardian. The essence of the principle of worship is that one should stand [in Prayer] as if he is seeing God or that God is seeing him. He should be pure from all types of adulteration and shirk , and have in mind God’s greatness and providence alone. He should fervently implore God with the traditional prayers of the Prophet s as and other supplications. He should repent and seek God’s forgiveness a lot, and express their weakness again and again so that the self is purified, and a true relation is forged with God, and he becomes lost in His love. This is the gist of the entire Prayer, and it is all mentioned in S u rah al-F a ti h ah. 1. Call upon Him, making yourselves sincere towards Him in religion ( S u rah al-A‘r a f, 7:30). [Publisher]