English book · Discovering God

The Existence of God

English book, p. 244

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

of the couplets of Ghalib. He said that he not only read the poems of Ghalib, but rather lived in them. As he put it, “The couplets of Ghalib are always in my mind. I am always thinking about them.” This is the real meaning of pondering. It does not just mean trying to understand the meaning of the Quran while reciting it. It means that it should dominate your thinking. The verses of the Quran should stay in your conscious mind at all times. You have to sleep with the Quranic verses and wake up with them. Pondering upon the Quran is the development of an intellectual relationship with the divine revelation. The second necessary condition is that one should keep praying to God. Prayer (dua) does not just mean that one should keep repeating such words as: “O My Lord increase me in knowledge.” (Quran 20:114) Prayer begins with the discovery of one’s helplessness. A person who cannot recognize his helplessness in this way is not properly equipped to do dua or supplication to God. Stirring Up of a Revolution in the Human Personality The Quran has this to say about its recitation: “True believers are those whose hearts tremble with awe at the mention of God, and whose faith grows stronger as they listen to His revelations. They are those who put their

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