Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 571
24 May 1908 571 In contrast, the stubborn beggars plant themselves at one door and keep sitting there until their request is met. Such a beggar is surely granted his request in the end. This same is the condition of those who ask from God. Only those people get their request granted by God who stay exclusively at His door being the stubborn beggar. They are resolute and persist in begging relentlessly from Him alone. Those who are irreso- lute and impatient, who despair or become disgruntled, always remain deprived. Besides sincerity and steadfastness, perfect faith and trust in the Being of God is also essential. It is against sincerity and fidelity to despair of God quickly and to take one’s petitions to others. To go from door to door to beg one idol and then carry one’s request for help to some other deity, rock, moun- tain, tree in the forest, or Ganga water, shows a lack of trust in the One God and a lack of full conviction that He is the One who fulfils all one’s needs. It is against the character of the stubborn beggar to give up quickly and turn to others for one’s needs, having become despaired of God. It is absolutely wrong to make one god after another and to seek fulfilment of one’s exigencies from each and go on abandoning them one after the other. One ought instead to adhere to the One and beg Him alone for all one’s needs. He provides for the needs of every- one. Patience, perseverance, and faith are the prerequisites. After hearing this much of admonishment, they agreed that this indeed is the truth. They sensed that the Promised Messiah as now wanted them to leave but they again made a humble request, ‘We have come from afar. We wish to work the fan for you. We have only come to be in your