Attributes of God
English book, p. 31
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Between God and Man T he beautiful names which God has chosen to introduce Himself to man are such as will open the gate of mercy to man. God’s beautiful names tell us what the meeting points between God and man are. It is through these meeting points that man may achieve closeness with God. Then, if the spirit of God’s servant is very great, this enables him in his prayer to God to make use of a great name of God and in so doing make divine closeness possible, just as by switching on an electric switch, the bulb immediately lights up. There is nothing mysterious about this. The truth is that this is a law of nature, which we can understand by studying the relationship based on feelings and emotions between human beings themselves. Prayer and Super Prayer T here are two kinds of calling upon God, or prayer. One is to utter some specific words in the simple sense and then ask God for something. The other is

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