Attributes of God

Prayer from the Heart and only has a heightened sense of feeling, the divine nature latent within him finds words in the form of tears. In such tempestuous moments, whatever a person utters from his lips is genuine dua, or prayer. It is this dua which is dua with ism-e-aazam and such a dua is always in one’s own mother tongue, rather than in any other language. Prayer from the Heart O nce I happened to meet a person, who told me that he had been seeking the answer to a question for the last ten years, but he had not yet succeeded in finding it. I asked him what his question was? He said, “I want to know what ism-e-aazam is?” Ism-e-aazam means a prayer that invokes God’s greatest name. He told me that he had read many books, he had met many religious scholars and saints, but he had not yet received any satisfactory answer to the question. He said, “Now I have come to you. If possible, please give me the answer and ease my tension.” I said, “Your anxiety is purely self-induced. You have supposed that ism-e-aazam is like a mantra, that is, a magic formula. Now you want to know that mantra, but this will never happen.” I said that ism-e-aazam is not the name of some words but is rather the name of some state or feelings. The