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The Muqtasid stand in need of proofs and miracles and the Zalimin do not believe unless they pass through a sort of punishment. It is just as the people of Moses had to expe- rience the bubonic plague and the earthquakes and thus they became a lesson for others. This is in a way a sort of compulsion which is meant for this third type of people. It is a Must for the prophetic Dispensations. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 219) WHAT IS INTERCESSION The prayers of the one who is commissioned by God influence the whole world; that is a very delicate law of God which cannot be grasped by everybody. The people who deny intercession are sadly mistaken. It is the law of God that demands that there ought to be an intercessor. The intercessor has a strong relation with God on the one hand, and a strong relation with the human beings, on the other hand. He is so sympathetic towards mankind, and he is so easily moved to sympathise with others that it can be said that he has been specially made like this by God. He receives from God and dishes out to the human beings; this is intercession. The removal of the hardships or the decrease in the sinful deeds, through the prayers, also comes under inter- cession. The spiritual influence of the one who is commission- ed affects everybody, even though he may not know the names of some of them (some of the people who are connected with him). (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 220) WRATH OF GOD This has always been the way of God that whenever people become negligent and get themselves involved in 159