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been my aim and intention. But now I am calling men to the knowledge whereby worldly success is
given
up and its low position in the scale of real worth is recognized. This is now my intention, my aim,
my desire;
Allah knows that this is so. It is my earnest longing that I may make myself and others better. I
do not know
whether I shall reach my goal or whether I shall be taken away while short of my object. I believe,
however,
both by certain faith and by intuition that there is no power and no might save with
Allah, the high, the
mighty, and that I do not move of myself but am moved by Him, I do not work of myself but am used
by Him.
I ask Him first of all to reform me and then to reform through me, to guide me and then to guide
through me,
to show me the truth of what is true and to grant of His bounty that I may follow it, and to show
me the
falsity of what is false and to grant of His bounty that I may turn away from it.

We now return to the earlier topic of the causes for the weakness of faith, and consider how to