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Through a universal intention and infinitely profound belief and devotion. Suppose a poor man enters the presence of the king with a present of a few dollars and sees that gifts worthy of millions each have come from the king's favorite men and been arranged there.
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Man has been sent to this world as a guest with a special responsibility, and endowed with important potentials. He has been assigned important duties in accordance with these potentials, and strongly urged to carry out those duties and gravely threatened if he fails to do so. In order to make the mystery of "being the best pattern of creation" more comprehensible, we will here summarize the essentials of the worship and duties required of man, which we already elaborated in another treatise. Man's worship consists of two aspects. One is implicit and concerns reflection and consciousness. The other is visible prayer, done in direct supplication in the presence of God.
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Belief necessitates supplication as a certain means of securing needs, and just as human nature has an intense desire for it, so too the Almighty God decrees ...
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Prayer
“‘O’ God! by thy most particular attributes by Thy powerful glory, by Thy Great names, by infallibility of Thy prophets, by the light of thy friends, by the blood of Thy Martyrs, by the ink of Thy learned personalities, by the supplications of thy pious persons, and by the invocation of Thy needy persons we beseech Thee for the increase in knowledge, health of the body, increase in the life tenure, for thy obedience, abundance in the sustenance, repentance before death, ease at the time of death, forgiveness after death, the light in the grave, redemption from the hell fire, admission in the paradise and rescue from all calamities of the world and punishment of the next world by the grace of the Prophet and his best, pure and infallible progeny.”
--Forgiveness and Protection from Hell Fire
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