THE CALL

2. HAZRATJI ~ 62 ~ THE CALL The Maulana’s eagerness to lead people along the right path had turned to anguish. To him, faith involved trusting in God in all matters to the exclusion of all else. Once he said that working for this cause entailed a firm belief in God because it was He alone who could bring success. Man had to submerge his being within Him. He had to be fully convinced that in following the prophetic way alone lay the success of both the worlds. “There are two fields of struggle,” he once said “One concerns the earth on which we live, and the other is the world of faith. The first type of struggle brings forth the fruits of our worldly labours. But it does not afford one any deep sense of happiness and contentment. The second type of struggle reaps dividends in the next world.” To the Maulana, dominance on earth was subject to our leading truly Islamic lives. As he said, “Follow the pattern of the Prophet. Those who neither wish to follow his path themselves nor let others follow it, will be shattered by God as He does the shell of an egg. The super powers, to God, are not worth even a spider’s web.