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At another place He says: Wa anna lahomut-tanawasho mim-makanim-baee. d how should I accept 'the prayer of the person who is far away from Me. This is a lesson through an instance from the law of nature. It does not. really mean that God cannot hear (from distance). He is fully aware of the intentions that are hitM. en in the heart and even the intentions that have not taken any shape as yet. Here, actually the attention of man has been invited to the nearness of God. He has been told that just as a voice that comes from far off cannot be heard, so also a person who is negligent and engrossed in the evil deeds, goes away from God. The farther away he goes, the greater is the distance and the thickness of the curtain between him and the acceptance of his prayers. As I have just said that although God is the knower of the Unseen, this is the law of nature that man ca. . 'lnot achieve anything without Taqwa (the fear of God, right- eousness and piety). At times the ignorant person becomes an atheist sh-nply becau~e of the non-acceptance of the prayer. The Bukhari (a Book of Hadees) contains a Hadees which says that the. believer attains to the nearness of God through Nawafil (optional good actions or supererogatory praye,s). (1v. lalfoozat Vol. II, p. 198) THE FRIENDS OF GOD It is only through the Nafl (supere~ogatory prayers) that one can make his love for God perfect. \rvnen this stagC' o• , J