Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 425
Undated 425 Undated 1 Prayer and its Acceptance The Promised Messiah as said: It is the practice of Allah with me that when I concentrate and pray for something and that concentration reaches its perfec- tion and the supplication reaches its extreme point, then most certainly something is told to me about it. There is no doubt that when a person prays to God Almighty, God Almighty often accepts the prayer of His servant, but sometimes God Almighty desires that His will should be obeyed. This is the sign of an ongoing established friendship between two friends that sometimes one accepts the other, and at other times it happens the other way around. It cannot be that one friend goes on always obeying the word of the other and never asks that his wish be accepted at some time. A person who thinks that his prayers should always be accepted and that only his wishes go on being fulfilled is making a big mistake. Allah the Exalted has revealed two verses in the Holy Quran with His perfect wisdom. In one of them, it is said: 2 ْ اُدْعُوْنِيْٓ اَسْتَجِبْ لَكُم ْ اُدْعُوْنِيْٓ اَسْتَجِبْ لَكُم You pray and I will answer you. In the other verse, it is said: اخل. . . . . . 3 َو ْمُكَّنَوُلْبَنَل ٍءْيَشِب َنِّم ِفْوَخْلا َو ِعْوُجْلا َو ْمُكَّنَوُلْبَنَل ٍءْيَشِب َنِّم ِفْوَخْلا َو ِعْوُجْلا 1. These are probably Malf uza t of July 1906. [And Allah knows best the truth] ِ وَاب َّ ُّٰ اَعْلَم ُ بِالص هّٰلل و َا ِ وَاب َّ ُّٰ اَعْلَم ُ بِالص هّٰلل و َا. (Compiler) 2. S u rah al-Mu’min, 40:61 [Publisher] 3. S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:156 [Publisher]