Makhdoom Jahaniyan Jahagasht was a saint.
HDE Gohar Shahi have also mentioned his name in The Religion of God.
Someone asked him,
‘When God has already destined provisions for us,
why must we make any effort to obtain them?’
Which Prayer Should You Make to God?
The formula we understood was
that we must ask God for that
which is beyond human capability.
That’s when God will take you seriously.
There is a plate of biscuits in front of Hafiz Farid,
he wants to be the only one eating those biscuits.
If you now pray, ‘O God, please grant me those biscuits’,
this would invite God’s anger, wouldn’t it?
God would say, ‘Are your legs broken?
Are your hands broken? Go and eat them’.
God will take it seriously
when you ask him for something
which is unattainable through human efforts.
He will consider you a genuine seeker.
For instance, you pray,
‘O God, grant me Zikr e Qalb. Guide me to a spiritual master’.
Now, this is not possible through human efforts.
You shall see how quickly this prayer is answered.
If you pray, ‘O God, bestow upon me the love of Prophet Muhammad (s)’,
then you shall see how quickly this prayer is answered.
‘O God, bestow upon me the companionship of and servitude to HDE Gohar Shahi’
and you shall see how instantly this prayer is fulfilled.
You should not make supplications to obtain mundane things,
you should make efforts.
Why?
Because as per the divine law, this world is the Realm of Reasoning,
there is a means to obtain everything.
God has done his job as the creator and written provisions in your fate,
so your job is to strive to obtain it.
If your prayers consist of mundane desires,
this would surely displease God for God shall say,
‘I have already destined this for you. Go, make efforts and obtain it’.
Now, if you think anyone who makes efforts shall obtain it, you are mistaken.
If it is not written in someone’s destiny,
they may endeavour all their lives and obtain nothing.
Only the one who is destined to obtain it shall benefit from making efforts.
Your efforts are only fruitful when it is written in your destiny.
Makhdoom Jahaniyan Jahagasht was a saint.
HDE Gohar Shahi have also mentioned his name in The Religion of God.
Someone asked him,
‘When God has already destined provisions for us,
why must we exert to obtain them?'
He said, ‘The exertion is also destined’.
You understand what exertion means? Making efforts.
HDE Gohar Shahi once said,
‘Humans are so foolish.
Despite knowing that God has destined provisions for them,
they earn their destined provisions through unlawful means’.
When it is already written in your destiny,
why are you earning it through unlawful means?
Why don’t you obtain your provisions through lawful means?
You tried to obtain your lawful provisions through unlawful means and became a sinner
although God had written it in your fate anyway.
God had written it in your destiny.