Understanding Salat — Page 41
Qiyam 41 to conceal their misguidance and attribute imperfections to Allah instead. This created a vicious cycle; their weaknesses changed their concept of God, and then their wrong concept of God led to greater weaknesses. When they stopped believ- ing that Allah would speak to them, they stopped seeking interaction with Allah Almighty, and as a result, they ceased being spoken to. Hadrat Khalīfatul Masīh I ra used to relate about one of his teachers that he saw a dream when he was in Bhopal that he was standing near a bridge in the outskirts of the town. There he found a leper whose whole body had been infested with worms. Flies were resting on his body. He asked him who he was. He replied that he was God, his Lord. The teacher said that he had read so many praiseworthy things about God in the Holy Quran; that He is so beautiful and there is none who is comparable to Him. What has become of His condition? God replied to him, “My appearance that you are seeing is not the one I possess in reality. This is how I look through the eyes of the people of Bhopal. ” Hadrat Mu s le h Mau‘ ū d ra advised, Examine yourselves closely, and analyze your actions, words, sayings, your movements and your rest.