Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 77
27 December 1907 77 The Prerequisites of Supplication and its Results It is clearly written in the Holy Quran: 1 ْدَق َحَلْفَا َنْوُنِمْؤُمْلا۰۰َۙنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ْيِف ْمِهِتاَلَص َنْوُعِشٰخ۰۰ ْدَق َحَلْفَا َنْوُنِمْؤُمْلا۰۰َۙنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ْيِف ْمِهِتاَلَص َنْوُعِشٰخ۰۰ Meaning that when the heart of a person is melted in the course of supplication; and he throws himself down before the Divine threshold with such devotion and sincerity as if he is totally lost in Him; and while abandoning all other thoughts, he begs grace and succour only from Him; and he is able to attain such concentration of mind that a kind of pathos and poignancy is created—then the door of success is flung open and thereby the love of the world is cooled off. This is so because two loves can- not coexist in one place. So it is said: �اےدون ي � ن مہ دخا وخایہ و مہ د� �االتس و احمالتس و ونجن ي � ن � ن � ي �ِ ا Claiming we simultaneously love God and the world Is wishful thinking; it is impossible and sheer insanity. This is why God says right after it that 2 َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ِنَع ِوْغَّللا َنْوُضِرْعُم َو َنْيِذَّلا ْمُه ِنَع ِوْغَّللا َنْوُضِرْعُم here ‘vain’ implies the world. Once man starts to experience pathos and poignancy in his Prayers then the love of this world is cooled off in his heart. It does not mean that he then quits his job, farming, or trade, etc. He starts to shun those mundane activities that involve deceit 1. S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:2–3 [Publisher] 2. And who shun all that which is vain ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:4). [Publisher]