Scattered Pearls — Page 63
62. Prophet Muhammad chose for himself the rigorous life o. Faqr, always saying that: “Faqr is a source of pride for me. 30. Even in the discharge of his Mission from God, the. Promised Messiah depended most of all on prayer, which in a way is again only another name for Faqr. For just, as the People of Faqr, while working through material means to the best of their ability, depend really only on God, exactly in the same manner, even in the matter of his service to the cause of Islam, and his continuous Jehad in the way of Allah, while striving to the best of his capacity with the material means at his disposal, the Promised. Messiah put all his trust for the success of his Mission only in Divine help and succour. The intecllectual Jehad he waged with his pen is admitted by all, so much as that he changed the entire approach and colour of the discussion of problems in the field of religion, inflicting defeat after defeat on his opponents, the Christians, and the Aryas, and all others, so that even his opponents had to concede that he had lived his life as an eminently victorious general. (Vakeel Amritsar, June 1908). All the same he always said that the real weapon he fought with against. his opponents was his supplication and prayer before the:. Almighty God. Attaching no value to his own efforts, as distinguished from the grace of Allah, he always said that success would come only through the grace and mercy of God. Often he used to say: "Allah has invested prayer with wonderful. This is what Allah has conveyed powers. to me repeatedly that whatever is to happen, shall come to pass only through prayer. The weapon in our hands is only this prayer. Apart from it, I have