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claim. Let them pray to the sun that one day it should not rise or it should set when it is just the mid-day; if it does that, _then of course it will be proved that it does so of its own accord. The fact that the sun rises and sets at the fixed times (the time at which it should rise or set on any day), shows that it has no power to do things as it wills and it has no intention of its own. It is only he who accepts the prayer that can be said to possess His own Will, for, He does what He should and does not do what He should not do (all this, of his own Will and Accord). Had there been no question of the acceptance of the Prayer, many doubts would have risen about the existence of God-and in fact the doubts did rise for the people who did not believe that the prayers are acdepted. Those who do not believe in the acceptance of the prayers have no conclusive proof of the existence of God. I very strongly believe that he who does not believe in the acceptance of the prayer will go to the hell; he does not be- lieve in God at all. The only way to recognise God is that one should con- tinue praying to Him until God grants him certainty and he hears the voice of God : Anal Haq Of course it is very difficult to reach this stage but patience solves all these difficulties. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 204) 151