God Treats Favourites as Friends — Essence of Islam Vol. 2

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Introduction

In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon God Treats Favourites as Friends, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 5: Prayer
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frustrated fifty times in achieving his objective, he should not let his belief and goodwill be affected in any manner. Such people have very delicate sensibilities and they can conclude from a person’s countenance the degree of his sincerity. They are tender-hearted, yet they are selfsufficient. They have no regard for any arrogant, selfish and hypocritical person. Only those people can derive any benefit from them who obey them to a degree where they are ready to lay down their lives for them. A person who thinks ill of them at every step and entertains objections in his heart and lacks full love and goodwill derives no benefit from them and only ruins himself.
[Brahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part V, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 21, pp. 226-228]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 216]

It is true that most of the prayers of those who are accepted of God are accepted. Indeed, their great miracle is the acceptance of their prayers. When their hearts are sorely distressed at a time of misfortune and in their distress they turn to God, at that time their hand becomes, as it were, the hand of God. God is a hidden treasure. Through His perfect favourites He displays His countenance. God’s signs are displayed when His favourites are persecuted. When they are persecuted to the extreme that is an indication that the sign of God is near and indeed it is at the door. No one loves his son so much as God loves those who become wholly His. He displays His wonders for them and manifests such power on their behalf as if a sleeping tiger wakes up. God is hidden and these are the people who make Him manifest. He is behind a thousand veils and these are the people who display His countenance. 62

That is, Pray to Me, I shall accept your prayer. And at another place instructs them to accept His determination with pleasure. It is said: 63

By reading both these verses together, one would know what is the way of Allah in respect of prayers and what is the relationship between the Lord and a servant.
[Haqiqat-ul-Wahi, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 22, pp. 20-21]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 216]

63 ‘And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a misfortune overtakes them, say: Surely, to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return.’—Al-Baqarah, 2:156–157 [Publisher]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 217]

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