attachment to God. This is the whole truth. To put it another way, tazkiya enables one to focus so totally on God that one becomes free of all other considerations, save devotion to God. Tazkiya enables

enables one to make God the centre of one’s attention in the complete sense. Making God one’s sole concern is no simple matter. It is akin to bringing about a total revolution in one’s psyche. One who experiences

a revolution takes God as the Giver in the full sense, and regards himself as the taker in the full sense. His thinking becomes God-oriented: his feelings are centred entirely on God. His words and deeds

understanding of its probability. And as we know, probability is another word for certainty. Out of all God’s creatures, man, who is unlike any of His other creatures—is the only one who has the greatest need

imagination, but which we must nevertheless try to comprehend, for that is the part of human life which God has decreed should be eternal and, as such, ineluctable. We are all familiar with the facts of our

Hereafter will be condemned to suffer the most horrific pain for all time to come. But those who merit God’s blessings in the Hereafter shall know the most wonderful joy and contentment. Can we perceive the

ungratefulness. A blessing which is in actuality given by God, is thus attributed not to God but to a person. This is a case of a failure to acknowledge God’s magnanimity and that is the greatest sin in this world

Prophet described an apparently material blessing as “God’s gift”. True believers consider that everything belongs to God alone and acknowledge God by attributing everything to Him. Whatever people get

a blessing from God. It is required of a person that he remove the veils in which reality is shrouded and by discovering the truth may say on receiving every blessing that this is God’s gift given directly

THE ESSENCE OF RELIGIONPART IIWorship of God The Demands of Worship WHAT God desires of man, first and foremost, is that he display humility in His presence. This attitude is called worship. But man was

options—one path leading to God and the other leading to self—his spirit of worship compels him at that point to renounce the latter path and take the one indicated by God. This happens when he has totally

totally surrendered his being, both physical and spiritual, before God to whom he has already bowed psychologically. This manifestation of worship, related to one’s self, is called submission. Occasions