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love and brotherhood. He taught the way to reach Allah—
the almighty. How to attain Him? He says, "Surrender
your will to Allah's will. Have full faith in His omni-
potence and understand that everything happens by His
will."" Self-surrender is the path pointed out by Muhammad.
He emphasised that surrender comes only through perfect
self-control by prayer and fasting. He enjoins upon his
followers to say namaz or prayers at least five times a day.
This communion would keep them in continued recollection
of God, forming a strong basis for a life of purity and peace.
Conditions for this attainment are: practice of love, com-
passion and kindness to all fellow-beings. He held that
they should exercise toleration towards other faiths which
also take the aspiring souls towards God. His dictum is
really this: there should be no compulsion in religion. He
laid specific stress upon charity, sincerity, honesty and
fellow-feeling. He preached that unity born of self-sacrifice
and mutual love makes you recognize the oneness and
omnipotence of God. To realize unity amongst mankind is
to dwell in the one God-in the mansion of eternal power
and peace, and to earn everlasting life.
To the Christians Eaindas would say: To have faith in
Christ means to accept him as your ideal. Your sole aim
should be to attain the Christ-ideal and to live up to his
pure and selfless life. Let the thought of Christ-ideal possess
your very soul and inspire your life and its activities.
Christ is an embodiment of divine love. He defines God as
love, and this truth he has come to prove in bis life. What
is the nature of the love he enunciates? It is a mingled
perfume of meekness, purity and mercy. Blessed is he who
is filled with the fragrance of love, because he will then be
a true and accepted child of God—love of God has become
manifest in him. He exhorts: Love one another and God
dwelleth in you. It is this supreme love that converts you
into the image of God. This supreme love enables you to
enter into the kingdom of eternal happiness. The kingdom