THE SINCERE DEVOTION

~ 23 ~ But not the Maulana. He would stand up on the top of hills in prayer for hours. When he died, his body had been given a bath, and was being perfumed, when one of his close colleagues said: “Perfume his forehead well, it used to stay in prostration for hours.” His heart-felt prayers, sacrifices, his attachment to God gave such force and effect to his mission that today it makes people wonder at the astonishing results achieved, as they find it hard to explain this phenomenal success in material terms. Here is a short extract from one of his letters which shows the degree of his involvement: “The results are in proportion to one’s struggle. The more one humbles oneself before the Lord, and bears the hardship in this path; the more one is entitled to divine succour.” These words give an accurate picture of the Maulana himself. In actual fact, his self-abnegation in God’s path was total, and this gave peculiar