The Quest of a Curious Muslim — Page 9
9 My prayers are not being answered. What do I do? In life, we pursue goals and we try to achieve them through various means. Prayer should be seen as one of the means, not the only means. This is a subtle but very important difference that many people do not seem to understand. In his book Blessings of Prayer , Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as discusses this subject at length. He compares prayer to the taking of medicine. If a person has a disease, he would use that medicine as a means to become healthy again. If the medicine does not work or lead to the right result, it would not mean that all medicines are ineffective. It would only mean that in that certain context, the prayer is not effective. 4 As humble servants of God, our responsibility is to continue to pray. Accepting prayers or rejecting them is up to Allah. Sometimes, we may think of