Remembrance of Allah — Page 18
18 Addressing them, he said that their uttering of prayer-phrases repetitively—parrot-fashion—will produce no results: ‘What are you doing sitting on your prayer mats when Islam is being attacked from all four sides? Why don’t you get up and give a reply?’ The Promised Messiah as has denounced them in this way— and they indeed deserved denunciation. Nonetheless, by this, some people have mistakenly understood that perhaps the very act of sitting and engaging in the is friv- olous in itself, whereas remembering Allah in this way is not pointless. Rather, the very purpose of it is that God’s holiness and praise should be proclaimed in this way. Nevertheless, since those people merely engaged in the sitting in their homes and did nothing in the outside world where God Almighty was being condemned, it is for this reason that the Promised Messiah as reprimanded them and said that if those people actually love God Almighty and proclaim His holiness and praise, then just as they declare His purity and praise Him while sitting in their homes, they should do the same outside of their homes as well. Since they had abandoned performing their duty of calling people towards goodness and forbidding them from evil due to their laziness and negligence, they were reprimanded for being hypocritical; for, if they held true love and passion for God Almighty in their hearts, then what would be the reason withholding them from coming out and responding to the opponents when they were attacking God Almighty? And what was the reason for them not to glorify God Almighty on the public platform as they did in the quiet corners of their homes?