Prayers are indeed accepted, but prayers never put an end to this system of mortality and death. This has been the case during the time of all the prophets. Those who make their faith subject to the condition that their prayer is accepted and their wish is fulfilled are very foolish. It is in regard to such people that the Holy Qur’an says:
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ حَرْفٍ ۖ فَإِنْ أَصَابَهُ خَيْرٌ اطْمَأَنَّ بِهِ ۖ وَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ فِتْنَةٌ انقَلَبَ عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِ خَسِرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةَ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْخُسْرَانُ الْمُبِينُ [1]
Some people worship Allah the Exalted, standing, as it were, on the edge – content if some good happens, but turn aside upon facing some trial. Such people suffer loss here and in the Hereafter. And this loss is manifest.
The Promised Messiah (as) said:
Among the companions there were those who had wives and children as well, and this system of mortality and death was operative among them too, but no complaint was heard from them as we hear from some foolish people of this age. The reason is that the companions had divorced the love of this world. They were ever ready to lay down their lives, so what did they care for wives and children? They never asked for prayers for such things. And this is why no such complaints arose among them. They had already sacrificed themselves for the sake of faith. [2]
ENDNOTES
1. ‘And among men there is he who worships Allah on the borderline of belief, then if good attends him, he is content therewith; and if there befall him a trial, he turns away from Allah. He loses in this world as well as in the Hereafter. That is an evident loss.’ – The Holy Qur’an, 22:12.
2. Badr, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 3, dated 20 July 1905.
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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), Malfuzat Vol. VII (Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications Ltd., 2024) 248-249.
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