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All Praise is Due to God

English book, p. 5

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

ALL PRAISE IS DUE TO GOD and mind. At that moment, words of acknowledgement of God—’Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds’ spontaneously come to his lips. God is All-Powerful. God is the Giver, man is the taker. The only thing man can offer Him is acknowledge His blessings. The moment of man’s greatest worship of God is when God’s glory and greatness pervade his soul; when he recognizes God’s divinity as compared to man’s servitude; when, in full awareness of his helplessness, he comes to acknowledge God’s bounties in the true sense of the word. When man discovers God with all His attributes, his soul lies prostrate before Him. His whole being turns towards God. The feelings inspired in him by God’s bounties surge within him like ocean waves. When all these feelings find verbal form, they are called praise and gratefulness to God. God is the greatest Being, yet in the universe, God remains invisible. But His supreme glory is visible in His creation. Therefore, the realisation of God can be

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