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intellectually. The reason for this is that the human capacity had not reached higher levels upto the time of Torah; when the Holy Quran was revealed, the capacity had reached its peak and intellectual understanding had become mature. That being the case, the Holy Quran adopted the method (of expounding things) which could explain the goodness of the good morals. It does not only explain these things, it gives sound proofs of what it says; that makes the intellectual people understand better, and their denial becomes difficult. As I have just now said when the Holy Quran was revealed, intellectual capacity of man had become mature; that was not the case at the time of the Torah. Mankind had been making progress since the days of Hazrat Adam, peace be on him, and this evolution continued till it was the time of the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, when, this evolution reached its perfection. (Malfoozat Vol. I, p. 82) TAQWA AND ACCEPTANCE OF PRAYERS So far as the acceptance of the prayer is concerned it is conditioned with certain factors. Some of these conditions have to be fulfilled by the one who is to pray, while the others have to be fulfilled by the one who is asking someone to pray for him. As for the one who is asking someone to pray for him, he should keep in mind the fear of God and he should understand fully that it is not necessary that God should accept all the prayers; he should be peace-loving and a true worshipper of God. He should try to win the pleasure of God through Taqwa and Truthfulness. If he does that, then of course, the door for the acceptance of the prayer is open for hlm. If he attracts the wrath of God and creates an atmos- phere of discord with Him, his evil deeds and mischiefs will become stumbling block in the way of the acceptance of the prayer. 15