Attitude to be Adopted for Issues Differed Upon

Hazrat Hakeemul Ummat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi ra advised a mureed in regards to issues differed (ikhtalafi amoor) upon by scholars:

1. You should not initiate discussion with others regarding these issues.
2. If some one questions you regarding your action, make an appropriate excuse.
3. If someone asks you regarding these issues for his own understanding/research and action, explain it to him.
4. For those who ask just to ridicule and bicker, tell them to consult other scholars.”

Tarbiyat us Salik volume 2, page 1195

‎با مدعی مگوئید اسرار عشق و مستی
بگذار- تا بمیرد در رنج خود – پرستی

محو محبت

حُبّ حق-،- حُبّ الہی-،- حُبّ مولا-،- حُبّ ربّ
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الغرض کر دے مجھے محو محبت سب کا سب
منظوم شجرہ سلسلہ چشتیہ صابریہ امدادیہ/مناجات مقبول

Recognizing the Importance of Time

Sayyidi wa sanadi Hazrat Moulana Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib (Allah SWT preserve him & allow us to benefit from him abundantly. Ameen) was sitting in Masjidil Haraam facing the holy Kab’a. An individual requested for some advice (naseeha).

Hazrat db said:

“Recognize the importance of time. It is an invaluable wealth. Spend it very wisely and precisely in virtuous actions.”

Allah SWT give us the taufiq to do so. Ameen, bijah-e-Sayyidul mursaleen.

حضور

کبھی طاعتوں کا سرور ہے -، کبھی اعتراف – قصور ہے
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ہے ملک کو جس کی خبر نہیں وہ حضور میرا حضور ہے
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حضرت محمد احمد پرتابگڑھی قدس سرہ

Fanayiat

Sayyidi wa sanadi Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Taqi Usmani sahib (Allah SWT preserve him & allow us to benefit from him abundantly. Ameen) said:

“Do not adopt any attire, attitude or practices that make you distinctive and different from rest of the Muslims. Live like an ordinary person.

This is particularly so in the tareeq (path) of our grand Sheikh Hazrat Haji Imdadullah mohajir Makki qaddas sirrahu. Because, our path is of absolute self-effacement and pure annihilation (fana).

Never ever even think of adopting the attitude of the contemporary (pseudo) Pirs & Sufis.
Consider it to be deadliest poison for the heart!

A person who adopts an individualistic & innovative demeanor in our tareeq has not even sniffed the smell of this tareeq!”

مسنون دعا

اللهم
اجعلنى اخشاك
كانَى ارأك
ابدا ً حتى القاك
و اسعدنى بتقواك
ولا تشقنى بمعصيتكمناجات مقبول 119

Upbringing Muslim Children

Hazrat Hakeemul Ummat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi ra said:

Most of the people do not pay necessary attention required for the proper upbringing (tarbiyat) in childhood. They condone accurate training saying they are just kids.

However, this is the age for establishing permanent habits. The characteristics developed in this period last for ever. This is the time to correct the morals (Ikhlaq) and strengthen their thoughts (khayalat) (Islamically).

Hence, a child stays with his parents from birth and regards them his mother and father, respectively. Later in life even a lot of people were to raise suspicion about this, he will never doubt about them being his parents. The teachings of childhood are so solid that they do not wear away except when Allah SWT wants them to be erased.

Malfoozat-e-kamalat-e-Ashrafiya #637, pg 146

Raising Muslim children is very challenging and one of the most difficult responsibilities for the parents.

Following are some essential tips to help.
They have been gathered from saying of our pious elders (akabir):

1. Set an example/role model for them by doing your self-reformation (islah) with sincerity.

2. Make the environment of the home Islamic as much as possible.

3. Maintain exemplary relations with your spouse.

4. Give them the best of your attention, love, material resources, time and training. But set expected standards and implement them firmly.

5. Make a routine of reading regularly from the books of our mashaykh with them. Select simple books, like Bashiti zewar, Hayyutul Muslimeen, Asan nakiyan. Daily 2 -3 pages. At the most 10 to 15 minutes. This is the most stressed and most beneficial. Do not worry if they seem too young to understand. Develop a habit. InshaAllah, it will illuminate their heart and make it receptive of good later in life.

6. Remember making them truly religious is more important than making them hafiz and alim. A non-practicing hafiz/alim is worse than a practicing jahil.

7. Take them regularly to visit mashaykh and to get their dua.

8. Select a pious Sheikh/scholar who is steadfast in following Shariah & Sunnah in your locality and visit his lectures and discourses regularly.

9. Make dua for them a lot. For their efficient religious upbringing and also sufficient worldly progress. Mufti-e-Azam Pakistan Hazrat Mufti Mohammed Shafi’ ra has mentioned in Mariful Quran that the most successful means for the upbringing (tarbiyat) of children is parents’ dua.

And the success is from Allah SWT .

حضرت شیخ مدظلہم العالی

اللہ – میرے شیخ – کے رتبوں – کو بڑھادے

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سر تاج زمانہ – میرے – مرشد – کو بنا دے

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توفیق – مجھے اس کی – اطاعت کی عطا ہو

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اوراس کی محبت کو میرے دل میں رچا دے

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ہر ایک – کو ملتا – نہیں اس شان – کا مرشد

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دولت یہ وہی پاۓ – مگر جس کو خدا- دے

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یہ شمع رہے نورمحمد (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) کی منور

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امداد الہی – اسے نت – تازہ – ضیا – دے

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پروانے رہیں – شمع – رخ شیخ – کے خادم

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اور شیخ – کو- محبوبئ محبوب – خدا – دے

آمین
حضرت بابا نجم احسن قدس سرہ

Sijdah of every moment!

Explaining the ayah:
واسجد واقترب ة96:19
meaning: Allah SWT says;’ prostrate yourself and come nearer (to Me).’

Sidi wa sanadi Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Taqi Usmani sahib (Allah SWT preserve him & allow us to benefit from him abundantly. Ameen) said:

“This is one of the most enchanting verses of holy Quran. The recitation of this makes it obligatory for the reader and the audience to perform a sijdah (act of prostration). Remember to perform it later.

Allah SWT is informing us that when we perform the act of prostration we draw nearer to Him. And who does not want to be nearer to Him? All his life a Muslim is struggling to achieve this.

But we are in need of getting nearer to Allah SWT at each and every moment of our life.

Recognize this order to prostrate is in general and not restricted to namaz (salah) only. However, the sijdah (act of prostration) for each and every other moments of our life is different. The sijdah of salah is by kneeling down and keeping your forehead on ground worshipping Allah SWT. Similarly, answering affirmatively to the call of Shariah at a particular moment is the sijdah (act of prostration) of that moment. That is performing the act fulfilling all the commands of Allah SWT and Sunnah of our master Prophet Salallaho alehey wasalam showing our complete submission.

If we do this, then a merchant sitting in his shop trading as per the rules of Shariah, a worker performing his duties conscientiously as per Shariah, and a student acquiring knowledge as per rules of Shariah are all in a state of sijdah, getting closer and closer to Allah SWT.

Allahu Akbar!

In short, a person steadfast on Shariah in his life is constantly performing sijdah (the act of prostration) and drawing nearer to Allah SWT.

May Allah SWT make us among them! Ameen.

محبت

محبت دونوں عالم میں یہی جا کر پکار آئی
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جسے خود یار نے چاہا اسی کو یاد یار آئی
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بابا نجم احسن رح

Whole Deen, Not Partial Deen

Sidi wa sanadi Hazrat Moulana Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib (Allah SWT preserve him & allow us to benefit from him abundantly. Ameen) has repeatedly told us that:

Deen has 5 major sections. They are:
Aqaid (beliefs)
Ibadaat (worship)
Ma’amlaat (mutual dealings)
Ma’ashrat (social etiquettes)
Ikhlaq (morals)

We have to follow the teachings of Shariah regarding them all simultaneously.

It is grossly erroneous to pick things that are easy and of our liking, while disregarding and discarding the others. This is especially so for the individuals involved in their islah.

“Deen is not the name of following one’s desire and wishes”.

Look around! A young individual when he turns to deen he wants to become an alim (religious scholar). In his zeal and ‘seemingly religious calling’ he disregards his parents’ genuine wishes and permission to do so. This is NOT deen. This is fulfilling one’s desire. It is nafs and shaytan’s deception.

Being a good devout practicing Muslim does not call one to be a certified full-fledged scholar.

How can one gain pleasure of Allah SWT by disobeying parents?

The example of Hazrat Owais Qarni radhiAllahu anhu is there for us. Only to take care of his mother he abandoned the most prestigious honor a Muslim can imagine. That is, being a Sahabi (companion) of our master Prophet salallaho alehey wasalam. But as it was for a genuine reason, see how Allah SWT compensated for it. Our master Prophet salallaho alehey wasalam instructed Hazrat Umar Farooq radhiAllahu anhu and other companions to request for dua from Hazrat Owais Qarni radhiAllahu anhu when they meet him. Allahu akbar!

Similarly, people get involved in zikr, muraqabat and ashgals of Tasawwuf and consider them to be deen and ignore the rest of the sections of Shariah. Others get engrossed in tabligh and become so avid lovers of seh-roza/chillah and ghast that their job (a source of halal income), family and other relationships and commitments are all neglected.

Again. Deen is not the name of following one’s desires. It is the name of following the commandments of Shariah at each and every moment of one’s life.

The beauty of our pious elders and their true successors is to maintain a fine balance in all these sections of deen. Making Shariah their guide in all the matters of daily life. Not their emotional, personal desires or wishes.

wa ma taufiqi ila billah!

The Sacred Relics: Significance

A piece of the cover of the holy kaba (kiswa) was presented to Sidi wa sanadi Hazrat Moulana Mohammad Taqi Usmani sahib (Allah SWT preserve him & allow us to benefit from him abundantly. Ameen). One of the individual present asked Hazrat db its significance and possible uses, for example, keeping its threads in eyelids of the deceased, etc.

Hazrat db replied:

“The significance of tabarukat (blessed sacred relics) can not be denied. It is reported in authentic hadith that our lord Prophet salallaho alehey wa alehey wasalam gave his magnificent shirt for Abdullah bin Obii, the leader of hypocrites on the request of latter’s son to be used in his shroud. Also, he prayed on him the final prayers. However, Allah SWT reprimanded on this action: being not suitable, as stated in holy Quran. Abdullah bin Obii being an arch covert enemy of Muslims did not benefit from these and went to Hell.

Hadith expert have given different explanations for this act. The most prevalent is that this was the compensation for Hazrat Abbas radhiAllahu anhu’s shirt who once being a prisoner of a war was without a shirt and as he was a very well built man no one’s shirt fitted him properly. It was the shirt provided by Abdullah bin Obii that was the most suitable for his physique. And by giving him his shirt our master Prophet salallaho alehey wa alehey wasalam paid back in kind the favor he had done.

Another explanation which came to my mind as being equally valid, and later I found evidence for it in a hadith exegesis, is that our master Prophet salallaho alehey wa alehey wasalam wanted to show the Ummah the limitations of tabarukat (blessed sacred relics).
Can we bring to mind a much nobler tabaruk than the splendid shirt of Prophet salallaho alehey wa alehey wasalam itself? But be aware that without correct belief and actions it fell short to be a resource for superior rewards and salvation.

In short there is significance of tabarukat. But their level of importance has to be clear. Correct aqaid (belief) and actions are necessary to reap benefit from these tabarukat.”