Hakeemul Ummat Hazrat Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi ra said:

“The achievement of goal is not dependent on how much you toil & labor.

It is contingent on working according to the yearning and determination within your means.

Pious elders have said that six units of prayer by a sick and feeble are equal to six hundred rakah of a strong healthy person. This is so because the feeble has the strength of praying six units only and Allah SWT rewards him, for He knows the condition and capabiity of all very well.”

Ma’asir e Hakeemul Ummat ra, pge 179

Hakeemul Ummat Hazrat Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi ra said:

“Remember a scholar who after completion of his education does not attend a khanqah (zawiya) for islah (self reformation) is like a person who is satisfied with the wudhu alone and does not proceed to offer the salah (prayers).

Mere learning and teaching is of no use. To be effective they have to be accompanied with the suhba (company) of the ahlul Allah (the pious).”

Ifadhatul yoomiya, volume 5, page 515. Quoted from Albalagh (Urdu) Safar 1427, 50.

Explaining Hazrat Hakeemul Ummat ra’s statement;

“No doubt the dua and barakah of Sheikh plays a major role in one’s islah (reformation). But its status is that of supplementary assistance and not the main thing to rely on exclusively.”

Sayyidi wa sanadi Hazrat Mufti Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib db said:

“It means that you will have to do the work yourself. Dua, attention and guidance of the Sheikh becomes a motivation and catalyst for this work. It increases the aspiration, boosts the determination and assists its performance. But you will have to toil and do the task yourself. You will have to travel yourself.”

Islahi majalis, volume 2, page 243

Malfooz of Hazrat Baba Najam Ahsan رحمۃ اللہ علیہ :

“What is Tasawwuf?

Weakening the possibilities of committing sin is in reality Tasawwuf.”

(Zikir e Ahsan ra page 252)