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Translation of Tajaliyat Author Al Shaikh Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi

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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MERCIFUL, THE BENEVOLENT

TAJALLIYAT (DAZZLING SPARKLES)

By: Al-Shaikh Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi

Dedicated to those scientists, who are inching towards the cognizance of the facts, spotlighted by Allah Almighty, in the wake of their intelligent observation for

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CONTENTS THE GLORIOUS QURAN GLOOMY SHADOWS, LENGTHENING ON THE EARTH PROCLAMATION IN THE HEAVENS OUR PHOTOGRAPH SUBJECTION OF THE UNIVERSE PLUTOLATRY IS AKIN TO THE IDOLATRY NON-MUSLIMS FORGING AHEAD TOWARDS PROGRESS & DEVELOPMENT INTERMENT THE BURNING OCEAN SOULS BEHOLDS THE DRY OFFSHOOT INGENIOUS HEART THE PROPAGATION LANDMARKS THE CREATIONAL FORMULAE REPENTANCE BENIGN ORIGINS THE GREAT BENEFACTION HOW TO TALK PILGRIMAGE EXORBITANT EXPENDITURES TWO WIVES THE STRAIGHT PATH 3

MUSLIMS' RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS PARENTS THE LOVE "HANDLE THE GLASS WITH CARE" SLEEP EARLY WAKE- UP EARLY A DROP OF WATER THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES TWO ASPECTS OF THE LIFE THE AWARENESS & ERUDITION COLLECTIVE EFFORTS PROVISIONS THE NATION IS DORMANT FOLLOW THE FOOT MARKS OF THE PROPHET (P.B.U.H.) WHAT IS THE VIRTUE? THE OBDURATES THE HAPPY SOULS GROUNDS FOR LOVE & FRIENDSHIP SOLAR RAYS THE PLEASURE OF ALLAH NOW AND THEN IMPORTANCE OF LIFE-PARTNER SELF-IDENTIFICATION NIGHTMARISH IMPACT THE FASTING COSMIC VIEWS PRAYER 4

MOSQUES ALLAH IS ALONE THE OMNISCIENT DESPONDENCY HOARDING FRATERNAL BOND THE HOLY WRIT DON'T THEY PERCEIVE? THE TREASURES, LATENT IN THE MAN WHAT A METICULOUS ORIGINATOR IS OUR LORD! THE INGRATITUDE FACE TO FACE THE FROWNING FACES IN THE WAY OF ALLAH ARROGANCE & VANITY MONTH OF RAMADAN GRAVEYARDS QURAN AND SUBJECTION FORMULAE THE BEST FRIEND AVERSION TO THE DEATH THE DELINQUENT MAN THE HELL-DWELLERS GIVE ALMS TO PARADISE-OCCUPANTS ECONOMICS ETIQUETTE DISSEMINATION OF "SALAAM" (GREETING) MELODY AND MANIFESTATION OF ECSTASY 5

PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES OUR RESPECTED PROPHET (P.B.U.H.) COMPOSURE AND DETERMINATION HOSPITALITY THE SMILE EVILS OF BLACK- MARKETING THE FRIEND RELIGION AND NEW GENERATION THE NIGHT JOURNEY HUMAN STATISTICS DAUGHTERS' SHARE IN THE PROPERTY CALL TO ISLAM QUESTION OF THE ANGEL A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD IN THE BELLY OF FISH CHILDREN'S NAMES ALMS GIVING IMPROVING THE FAMILY- MILIEU PERCEPTION OF INVISIBLES HUMAN RIGHTS THE PAUPER FRIEND A BLIND GUIDE FESTIVAL CELEBRATION LOOKING FORWARD FEAR OF DEATH GROUP OF ANGELS

"WE HAVE DESIGNATED YOU A NONEXTREMIST NATION" ACHIEVEMENT OF GOALS

THE GLORIOUS QURAN

The Glorious Quran provides us with such Moral and spiritual values which can rise to all the vicissitudes of time, as well as it guides us to such a track of life which can be stepped on by any nation across this Globe. Hence the moral and spiritual values, beckoned to by the Quran, if they can coexist Swiss icy environment, then it will not be a different proposition if they equally have a positive impact over Arid deserts of Africa. Therefore, while the existence in this corporeal world requires a band of social codes and norms, which remains undaunted in the face of all the predicaments, the 7

spiritual life too incorporates such rules and regulations which do not tend to any change or amendment. The human being is fully cognizant of the fact that the property of the fire is to set ablaze all that comes across it, therefore "Burning of Fire" is a phenomenon, recognized on eternal line, and this speciality of fire shall remain implicitly unaffected irrespective of any age or any part and parcel of this Earth. So as the transgression of hygienic rules runs in health deterioration in this materialistic world, likewise there are some rules and regulations to maintain the spiritual health, and if we abide by them,. they will be conducive to keep our spiritual health intact. These rules and regulations are not other than the principles, chalked by all the Prophets generally and by our Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) particularly. These principles, which secure the spiritual health, are divided into two parts. One part belongs to the Divine Rights, obligatory to the bondsman of Allah, is that the bondsman should have a clairvoyant knowledge of the entity and properties of Allah, and his heart 8

should be brimming with the love of Him, and lust after His prayer and cognizance of the CREATOR. It clearly means that he should be fastened up to Allah so closely that it may infuse in all his arteries and veins the spirit of longing for His prayers, and shall etch on his heart plate, in very bold letters, that he is destined to reach to Allah by the dint of such a rope which may never be disjunctive or go loose or end. Another divine right is that the bondsman of Allah should incessantly realize the acknowledgment, he has made on the primitive day that Allah was kind enough to create him, assemble him in a desired shape, nurture him and subjugate for him whatever is available on the Earth and skies. So he vowed to obey his Lord and genuflect on His threshold as long as he remains alive in any of the universes. Among the human rights is that the bondsman should have an abiding belief that the mankind, on the whole, constitute a family of Allah, and that he too is a member of that family. So the man as he chalks out definite scheme for his own weal and 9

prosperity, he should also with no dereliction, do the same for the betterment of his brother. If you cast, even a cursory glance, in the memoirs of God's Prophets and His true bondsman, they shall vouch very conspicuously for their dedication to human service. Indeed, the genuine impetus for such a service engenders in the man the properties of love, fraternity, equality and maternal affection. The meditative confinement of Moses to the Mount of Sinai for a tenure of an uninterrupted forty days was not but a token for the benefit of Bani Israel with divine benediction, likewise, when our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) made his exit from Hira Cave, he turned a perennial resource of numerous spiritual and materialistic privileges towards the humanity, so all the boons, received by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in the dark and tight corner of Hira through his onerous and prolonged meditation, made their influx to the thirsty and withered souls, our glorious Quran, through elucidation of human and spiritual values, guides us how to accomplish the human rights along with divine rights. Whenever Allah makes a 10

mention of His rights, He reminds us of that He is the Sovereign, Holy, Flawless, Peace Securer, Shelter, Majestic, Super and Superb, and that He is the Creator, Originator and Shape- setter of this Universe. When bondsman is privileged to go ahead with divine rights, Allah acknowledges to discern his services as He says in the Surah of CATTLES: "He will not be perceived by the eyesights, while He perceives the eyesights". It presages that the man, devoid of vision and bereft of perspicacity, when fails to catch his Lord, with his materialistic eyes, Allah, Himself approaches him as mentioned in the Surah of the COW: "I am nigh, I respond to the call of supplicant when he calls me". In similar context, another verse reads as follows: "He is with you whersoever you happen to be".

The following saying of Allah is indicative of more approach: "We are closer to him than the jugular vein". Allah repeatedly proclaims of His nearness to His bondsman in spite of the fact that He is not perceived by the eyesight.

GLOOMY SHADOWS LENGTHENING ON THE EARTH

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history of mankind cries on us vociferously that only those nations, who contemplated the divine marks rampant in every nook and corner, procured the judiciousness and erudition, and only those persons, who exploited the knowledge, granted by Allah, and bedecked themselves with knowledge and sapience, held the reins of this world. One should think about the water- streams, gushing out from the bottom of the Earth, if they disappear who shall bring them DENOVA ? To whom goes the credit for the panoramic view of the space, the life- saving lights, novelties of gases, starry blue sky, the moon, dispelling the dark cover of night, the sun, providing glaring daylight, the aromatic gust of morning breeze, the trees, glorifying Allah, singing of the birds, twittering of the nightingales and cry of the cuckoos? Do we have any intervention in all these? If they cease to remain under a well-coordinated 13

system, do we own any mechanism to restore them. If we admit our ideological vacuity saying that these things are pertaining to the Divine Glory and sovereignty, can we, as such, loose the sight of multifarious systems, plying our body with miraculous precision? Please makeup your mind: How the hairs are adherent to the external wall of the body? What is the root-cause behind that the Masculine Gender has a bearded face while the face of feminine Gender is tender and devoid of any hair? does such a system not evoke in us any consideration? The bearded face is the Masculine beauty while the tender and hair-less face is the Feminine beauty. The hairs, growing on the face of the man, do not find their way to the face of the women only because the blood density comes to an end in case of the women, owing to a certain system. The hairs are, in fact, the chemical reaction of blood 14

density. At this juncture, the thing which invites our attention is how the Nature has transformed the density into the hairs and pitched them on our facial parts along with head and body? If you venture pioneering in the optical Machinery of the man, you shall find out, to your utter consternation, that there are thousands of muscles, assembled in the optical camera, originated by Allah. In addition to it, if you ponder over the phrenological performance you may observe, through your internal micro-view, billions of cells in the brain, and that every cell is responsible for a particular "sense" in the man, and that these are the cells which keep our mental battery fully charged. Above all, the sophisticated cardiac machinery remains operational, under one order, one balance and one program. Indeed, the heart is just like an engine which keeps the human cells moving, and marshaled by a non-human will.

Have you thought of: How your constitutional developments took place in the gloomy dungeon of your mother's belly, and how you turned to be a Beckon light when you made your exit from that dark tight corner? Can you rule out that Eve might have given birth to a snake or monkey in lieu of a human? Undoubtedly this universe remains uninterruptedly moving under a well-coordinated and fully planned system, recognized as "THE DIVINE SYSTEM". Please think for a while what could have been the outcome of this Universe if Allah had stretched the night tenure to the course of Doomsday? Was there any power other than Allah to eschew such extension? Likewise, if Allah had prolonged the DAY so as to make it confluent with the Dooms day, was there any power other than Allah to provide you with the Luscious and somniferous quietude of the night? When the rain pours down on a parched parcel of some arid soils, you see the vineyards and palm trees growing from the beneath of the 16

earth. Is it not quite fantastic that those fruittrees are starkly different from each other in the term of coluor, flavour and taste though they are totally water-based? The same water makes its way to different dyes and constitutes different colours, flavours and tastes. Why our mind is not triggered to think what for the Mangoes do not grow on Mulberry trees and what for the Mango trees do not yield the peach. Why the earth is enshrouded with an unpeneterable cover of darkness though there are thousand Suns in Galaxies? The Science tells you the story of earth rotation around the Sun, and the burning of fire gutters in the Solar tablet, but the science does not discover the master hand controlling the rotation of those Galaxies. Let us know why so highly veteran Scientists are reduced to death? Why a heart-transplanter faces the traumatic end of his life by cardiacarrest. "Recast your Glance: Do you perceive any shortcoming"

The episode of (Ayub) Job (A.S) in the old Testament reads as follows: "Who chalked out the course for the torrential rains and streak for thunder-bolts? Is it possible for you to ask the clouds downpour upon you and to invoke the lightning? Where from the heart harbors the sagacity and clairvoyance? and who conferred on the dears the liberty of movement?"

PROCLAMATION IN THE HEAVENS

The Belief (IMAN) is such a substance, the luscious smack of which is matchless to any thing, available all around the global surface. This smack is gettable only for those "who love their Lord more than any thing else. A man, to whom any other worldly object is preferable to his Lord, shall never be construed a candid and loyal bondsman. Indeed, when we make a mention of Love, this love demands us for certain things, and this demand is categorically for the sacrifice. All of us are cognizant of the fact that love is synonymous to such an emotional upheaval, which is apparently invisible through corporeal and materialistic eyes. It is only the action of the lover which stands as a veracious indicator for his heart if it is brimming with integral love or not. A man can orally make vociferous allegations of love, but he is seen lagging far behind at the juncture of sacrifice. Such a biased love will not be considered credible by any parameter, stipulated thereto. Those who Love Allah, are loved by Allah. And when they are loved 19

by Allah, their hearts are fully packed with love. When this Fragrance of love makes its way to the celestial altitudes, the celestial inhabitants too begin to love him, and when the same fragrance covers every nook and corner of this Globe, then every cosmic creature, may be it a human, or bird, or animal or beast, hankers after his love. It is authentically narrated that the Prophet of Allah (P.B.U.H) said: When a bondsman is loved by Allah, he calls Gabriel and says "I love so and so person, therefore, you should also love him, Gabriel implicitly follows this command and love that person. Then this message for love is heralded to all those who are in the Heavens: Your Lord loves so and so person, so you should love him. Then he remains beloved among those who are in the heavens, and his popularity is installed in the earth. When a mention of Allah is made, it unequivocally reveals the only one fact that Allah Showers His finest Love upon His bondsmen. Is it not an indicative of His love that He has created innumerable resources 20

to keep His creature, IN ESSE, intact with the life? So He has commanded the earth to cultivate a very fantastic range of foodstuffs to be consumed by His creature, and has commanded the Sun to burnout the toxic elements, available with the atmosphere, and has commanded the Moon to downpour its tranquil and assuasive light on the fruits to turn fractious and enriched in the DOUCEUR, so that the creature may enjoy them in a delicious and picturesque form. Likewise Allah Commanded the Air to blow incessantly and gently so that the oxygen, an essential constituent for the smooth continuity of life, may not be hampered. Moreover. Allah paved the earth but not too hard to trouble the feet of walkers thereupon by fatigue, and not too marshy to sink the feet of walkers thereupon. As a sign of His intimate love for his creature. He has marshaled all His nature in such a judicious way so that the nature may benefit them in a very meticulously calculated and measured way, and as a sign of the same, He has tailored such a system which may keep His creatures away from the burning solar rays, and with a bid to introduce His Accountable 21

creatures to this superb system, He sent (1,24,000) Messengers and Apostles. What can be a more luminous example of Love than that Allah sent His Universal Mercy (P.B.U.H) and most beloved figure among His creature. In addition to this, a very irrefutable symbol of His love and benevolence is that He has grafted, in the heart of the mother, an unabated love and affection of her infant and so profusely that she may not be dissuaded if she steps to nurture him even with the last drop of her blood. And when Allah loves some bondsman, he desires him to love Allah as this was beckoned to, by Prophet (P.B.U.H) when he commented about a man who loved his brother that he extolled Allah. Allah, while addressing His Premier Prophet in His Holy Book, says: "Says If you love Allah, follow me and Allah will love you. Hence the allegations, made in regard to the love for Allah, neither be ratified nor accepted by Allah unless they are coupled 22

with the determination to follow His Prophet (P.B.U.H).

OUR PICTURE

An artist fancied to sketch out a picture of VIRTUE. He remained roaming around towns and villages for many a year. Eventually his eyes caught a child of extreme beauty, having white colour, broad and pensive eyes, smart and tender body, broad and bright forehead and soft limbs. He burst into cheers and yelled: " I got : I got the picture of virtue "He hung the picture of that child in his studio and wrote down it in superscription: " THE PICTURE OF VIRTUE". Subsequently he made-up his mind to draw a picture of vice too. Once again he left his house in the quest of that fancied picture. During his itinerary, continued to one score of years, he came across millions of faces. the best ones and the worst ones alike, but not to his total content. At last he beheld a highly typical face which filled him with a gust of hatred and despite. Once again he screamed: "I got: I got the picture of vice".

This picture too was placed in his studio along with the old one. The studio was frequently visited by the interested persons. One day a person came and stood dumbfounded before those two pictures. Then he told the artist while tears were streaking his face: "Both these pictures are mine" and trekked back. And this is Allah, in the Holy Quran, has said very categorically: "One who perpetrates a pinchful of good, he has to face it, and (likewise) one who perpetrates smallest sin, he has to face it". "What apprised you what was SIJEEN? A written record". "What apprised you what was ILLIYEEN? A written record". This denotes that all the major or minor works, done by a man, is recorded in film reels. In other words every human motion is picturised synchronizingly.

Allah also says with some details. "For those who have done good is the choicest dividend and some additional reward, and their faces will be tarnished neither by gloomy dust nor by subjugation. They are the occupants of the paradise. They shall be therein for good. And those who have perpetrated sins, their one sin will be requited by the similar one, and they will be marred by subjugation. None can protect them from (the wrath of) Allah, as if their faces had been pasted with a bit of gloomy night: They are the dwellers of the hell. They shall be therein for good". If you go through these verses thoughtfully they will show you very obviously that the faces are the veracious indicators of human good deeds and misdeeds. The nature of the work, done by a bondsman, gets its impression on his facial plate. The psychologists are fully cognizant of the fact that man is composed of lights and these light-waves spread over from the human personality insensibly. Therefore we feel sometimes attracted and Cheered to a face 26

when it comes in front of us. On the contrary, we sometimes come across such a face which makes us disgusted of it due to the repellent waves coming out of it, and we badly opt for its disappearance from the range of our eye-sight. The people whose hearts harbor Divine love, and their minds are laden with sincerity, sacrifice for others, austerity and philanthropy, their faces generally appear picturesque, innocent and dustless, and they have such a magnetic power which attracts everyone to them. On the contrary, the people who are indulged in guilty consciousness and hypertension, you will clearly observe on their faces the ominous portents of rigidity, dryness, in quietude, rudeness and repugnance. These portents require the visitor to keep himself away from such ugly faces. Let us cast glance at our own picture how does it appear? Before going to your bed room, and after getting free from all the occupations, you should stand VIS-A-VIS the mirror and close your eyes for some 27

movements and think that all your life records are kept with yourself and that you are witnessing those records or the film, picturised within yourself. Then you should open your eyes and cast a thorough Glance at the mirror before you. If you find your face cheerful, luminous and with smiling profiles, then be confidant that you are picture of virtue. On the contrary, if you find your face dejected, dry and with negative impressions, so as to abhor your face, then be sure that you are a picture of vice. It is a Natural phenomenon that every movement of the man is picturised and this picture is displayed on the screen of his own face. So the film, produced by Divine Record Officers, goes on playing on the human face. Haven't you seen that the face of a panicstricken and baffled person is indicative of all the dejected impressions. No doubt, you would have seen a depressed and sad person, when he makes his entry into a jocund gathering, all turn to be depressed and sad. Even though, the world is not vacant from Ascetic and puritan persons whose presence confers on the people a high 28

beam of ecstasy and spiritual rapture as Allah says in Surah "ALE IMRAN": "The day when some faces blossom and some faces wither. Those whose faces withered, will be addressed: Did you turn to disbelief? So face the torture in retaliation of your disbelief. And those whose faces blossom will find themselves amidst the boons of Allah where they utilize an eternal life".

SUBJECTION OF THE UNIVERSE

When Allah wanted to create the Universe, its control system also came under discussion, as it was highly impossible to run nature's factory without some comprehensive rules and regulations. Allah says in the Holy Quran: "His order, when he intends to create some thing, is that He says: Be and that thing verily comes into existence". So the Holy Quran tends with the Human Being to this ideology that a system requires for its implementation some operators. It is our perspicuous observation that the universe barely means a collection of Nature's materialistic, electrical magnetic and scientific rules, and that those rules absolutely dominate all the natural outlooks and cosmic sceneries. and that everything in the universe is inter-connected and is acquainted with each other, and that no unit of the universe may be kept disjointed from other one. 30

So all the spectacular sceneries, which are instrumental to run universe, are construed by Allah as Divine Hall-marks, and all the perspicious members of Human Family are unexceptionally invited to behold with their bare eyes all the Global views and miens and embark on to in-depth study of them, because Allah wants from His true bondsmen not to live insensitively just as silent spectators, but to be in constant exploitational touch with their instinctive abilities, conferred on them by Allah, for thinking and contemplation. " Say (0 Muhammad) : Look at what do the skies and earth have: " "Don't you discern?" "Don't you think? " "Don't you ponder? " "The worst creatures in the view of Allah are those who remain dumb, deaf and insensitive". "The skies and earth are laden with numerous guidelines for Believers, and your creation and 31

the live-stocks, scattered by Allah, do provide guide lines for those who believe". "You don't notice in the creatures of Allah any shortcoming. See repeatedly! do you find any split. Again repeat your glance, your eye shall come back to you with utter fiasco and lassitude". "He is who made the sun a source of glaring light and the Moon a source of cool light, and set for it some phases so that you can workout the numbers of years and accounts. This was created by Allah with a true intention. He elucidates the verses for those who have knowledge". The Quranic sermons regarding the subjection of Universe provide a clear-cut Divine Dispensation that the man should go through the rules, responsible for the creation of universe, so meticulously that the Divine Craft and high handiness behind every creation becomes to his eyes as clear as the Sun in broad day light. When student of the creational Recipe reaches the culmination of his travails, he finds himself capable to unmask such science which starts right from universalism and unlimitedness, as such a 32

student, or inquisitor, is not confined to the contents of the books alone, and he does not remain counting the bricks of the threshold, erected by his predecessors. But, he jumps, through his analytical parameters, to the conclusion that the gases-mixture, available in the open space, is responsible for the life of the earth, of late, observation of rains, winds, oxygen etc. turns for him to be a Common phenomenon. Apart from this, he also knows that the size of the Globe strictly conforms to some stipulated quantity. For granted, if the size had been slightly augmented, compared to the present one, the increase in the specific gravity could have led the air (Carbon Dioxide) to cling with the outer surface of the earth, instead of spreading over the space, and thus destroying the human perspiratory system. On the contrary, if the size of the Globe would have come shorter than the present one, the specific Gravity could have played havoc with every animate by dispatching the oxygen off in the remote space. It is not far away from the usual observation that the distance of the earth from the Sun 33

and Moon is too well calculated. If the distance of the earth from the Sun had been increased more, all the Globe could certainly have turned to be icy and frozen, and this world would have been reduced to thick icebergs. If the case would have been inverse, the parching solar rays could have reduced the bumper harvests of the earth to ashes, Likewise, if the stipulated distance between the earth and moon is interrupted, the ebb and tide shall constitute such boisterous waves which may inundate every part and parcel of this globe. The inquisitive student of the spiritual science, on the strength of his observation and analysis, becomes conversant with the cardinal objective of the universe and that an injudicious consciousness has nothing to do with the composition, assortment, integrity, administration, sourcefulness and orientation of the universal elements, and that there is a super power which has been dictating this universal system from the word "go", and that all these elements, constituents, and cosmic views are precisely

kept to a certain quantity, co-ordinated and inter-linked. "Glorify the name of your supreme Lord, who created then balanced, appreciated then guided".

PLUTOLATORY IS AKIN TO IDOLATRY

How many townships, not complied with the

ordinance of their Lord and His Messengers, they were chased by us to a rigorous impeachment and were excruciated heavily. So they experienced the bitter outcome of their attitude, and the consequence of their attitude was a heavy loss. Allah has prepared for them an insufferable torture, so fear Allah O clairvoyants!". As such, the common populace, who go away with the commandment of Allah, and remain solicitous of plutolatry in lieu of Divine Worship, they are ultimately pounded by Allah into the precipices of subjugation and humility. This is not a mere tale to be narrated, but every nook and corner of this earth holds the testimony thereof. There were how many emperors, who dictated extensively and erect splendid edifices, but these splendid and stately edifices have not been reduced to some relics or debris.

"Haven't they made a round of the earth so as to witness what was the outcome of those who precedes them. They were more in numbers and stronger in power and landmarks. But what they earned, did not come for their rescue". The trivial errors are generally excused by Allah until and unless the system, beckoned to, by Allah, remains uninterrupted. But the blatant errors of the wrong-goers exasperate Allah, and make His true bondsmen feel pinch for the currency of such circumstances, then the retaliation system becomes operational and Allah vents His sewer wrath on the people. The Divine Rule deprives such people of their domination and supremacy and they are destined to be obsequious and subjugated, because the people themselves preferred to be captive of an ephemeral thing when they hankered after the accretion of the wealth by hook or crook. Our this contemporary age is undoubtedly an age of Mammononish Trend, who can claim for any discrepancy between the plutolatry and idolatry. To worship a lethal 37

object and to worship the Gold are same by any parameter, stipulated thereto, because the idols too, are made of the stone and soil and both are the creature of Allah, and likewise, the Gold and silver too are a transformed shape of the soil. It is quite dolorous that the people go on buying spree for the Gold and other precious stones so blindly that the wealth has overrun all the human values, and the Family devour, hereditary nobility and national traditions are reduced to a debris, and the belief in resurrection has vanished away, and every one has become an unequivocal annotation of Mammonism. The extermination of spiritual values gives rise to the moral cavities, and the following commandment of Allah is transgressed unscrupulously: "Hold the rope of Allah firmly and be not disjointed". And when the true bondsmen of Allah raise their voice against this rampant evil the whole community insert their fingers deep into their ears and remain unmoved. So the righteous people shed profuse tears while 38

Satan explodes into laughters, lured by his provisional success. "We caught one and all by their sin. To some of them we directed the Tornado. Some of them were surprised by the Blaring yell, and some ones were guttered down the earth, and some others were inundated, and Allah was not to tyrannize them but they were tyrannizing themselves". The man of this age has construed the wealth A DESIDERATUM of his life, and has taken for his privilege to construct soaring structures, without giving his mind a room to think about those monarchs who were also lusting after the construction of superb and spectacular palaces, and the whole world was reeling under their shifty maneuvers, their despotic attitude, their glamorous way of life and their superiority complex, when they fell at last under the invincible grip of Divine Wrath they got no more excused and pardoned, they all become a part of the soil which is regularly trodden by our foot-soles.

How many gardens, amenities, forms, fine stations and bounties, for their utilization, were left by them and inherited by us to another community. And how many deterrent punishments arrayed before us, following the infringement to the Divine Laws? We notice a Brazen invasion of modern excruciating complications. One is prone to financial paucity though he is having every thing. Either the children are incompetent or the parents are adjugated to be incompetent. Whole the nation is devoid of perception and conception. The mental complications today are pervasive more than any other fraction of time. The interment has turned to an entertainment. As soon as the heart begins to throb a little more heavily, the man bids adieu to this world. The insecurity has climbed to such a delicate point that heart jumps out of the thoracic wall with the slightest movement of the leaves. The persistent skirmishes between the wife and husband, make the new generation realize the matrimonial bound as an insufferable 40

burden, the financial strait has grown narrower notwithstanding the influx of sources and resources. Who swerved from chanting my name, shall have a, penurious livelihood, and he will be congregated blind on the Dooms day".

NON MUSLIM FORGING AHEAD TOWARDS PROGRESS & DEVELOPMENT

Ozair (A.S.) happened once to pass through the outskirts of Jerusalem. The devastated township triggered his mind to a certain question: can this ruined and secluded place be rehabilitated? Can the inhabitants, who were razed to the earth with all their belongings, restore the hustle and hustle to it? Absorbed in his fancies, he lent his back to the earth for a while and he was overtaken by such a sound sleep that continued uninterruptedly, to one century. He was resuscitated by Allah who advised him saying: "Look at your donkey, and (we have done all these) so that we can make you a paragon for the people, and look at the bones, how we resuscitate them and cover them with Flesh. "When every thing became clear for him he declared: I know that Allah is dominant over every thing". When a man goes ahead with cosmography, the streaks of belief and confidence keep 42

glaring in himself, and his heart gets enlightened as Allah Almighty has said: "When our verses are recited over them; their belief is augmented". To get out from the precipices of the gloom, and to emancipate yourself from the yokes of grief and monotony, to hold the rein of the world, to laminate the heart and mind with Divine philosophy, and to comprehend the Divine rule, it is obligatory on your part to go deep in every micro-detail of this universe. Indeed, Quran incorporates every micro-detail because Quran is a Holy Writ, and takes to every nation the message of life, as Quran is a documentary asset for the formulae of Universe subjection. It is also an extensive constitution for human life. This Document leads to the ways, walking over which, shall secure transformation of our humanity into dignity, our defeat into victory, our languor into energy, our misery into weal, and our diversity into unity. The Divine code is comprehensive one, and as the man prepares a certain object from a patent recipe, likewise he can put his finger 43

on a certain point when he goes through the Divine Guide-book. It is highly regrettable that Muslims allowed the pattern of conception flee somewhere, and that they have been compelled mentally, ideologically and basically, to follow such a track where the channels of thought are choked out. A particular faction of Muslims has led them to a meandering, uneven and perilous track of failure and dissatisfaction only to secure its monopoly over them. The Holy Writ encourages us to explore the treasures, latent in the bottom of the ground and ocean, and fervently calls us to dig out and unearthed the mineral wealth to benefit ourselves, but we have preferred to remain a silent spectator, and have sealed our hearts, ears and eyes. Hence the nation, Which was appointed as the custodian of the recipes of the Universe subjection, has been thrown in the precipices of privation and misfortune. On the contrary, when Non-Muslims embarked on the deliberate study of the rules and regulation, the formulae and recipes, contained in the holy writ, they 44

became the prestigious, and occupied a prominent place in the field of arts and science. Today they are hovering in the sky and sailing on their ships, streaking the surface of the oceanic water, as if they were dictating the space and ocean alike, and the treasures of the earth were dancing to their tune. They have got accustomed to hear a very remote sound of overseas inhabitants within the least fraction of time. All these became possible because the Non-Muslims have made obligatory on their part to study the universe and all the things, available therein, and to find out the skeleton-key behind all of them, and because they are not oblivious to the creative science, they have kept the development under their absolute domination. What a poignant tragedy is that every development is heading towards NonMuslims, and all the devastation, ignominy and contempt have become the fate of Muslims? Reason? because the consciousness, awareness and ideology are being hampered by the vested interests of so-called Muslim leaders and thinkers. Allah says addressing His Prophet: 45

"Tell (them): travel in the world and see how he (Allah) has initiated the creation". Allah also says inviting the human to think: "Do they not look at the camels how they were created, and at the sky how it was paved high, and at the mountains how they were pitched up, and at the earth how it was evenly leveled?"

THE INTERMENT

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of our friends, Haji Sahib, by name, was covering the road with extraordinarily quick pace. He was looking immensely dejected and his eyes were bathed in tears: I saluted him and inquired him about his speedy pace as well as his depression. He apprised me of the demise of his friend Haji Ramzan. I consoled him reciting the verse "every animate is to succumb to death". I added: "This final phase is inevitably to be faced by every person, and we both have stepped to such crucial stage of life where the life stream tends to flow towards the Basin of Death. Today Haji Ramzan has departed this world and tomorrow we shall be having our own turn. This is a cycle of a continuous phenomenon which remains operational since the Primitive Day up to the Final Day". Haji Saheb was man of fine temperament. He responded to my speechlike talk: "I am not so concerned with the cause of my friend's death. But the real problem is that the bereaved family has blocked the way of valedictory Journey. Haji Ramzan was survived by four daughters and 47

one son and by exorbitant cash and kind which are really unassessed. His four daughters with their husbands, and other relatives have rushed to the Palace to attend the Funeral Ceremony, but they are now adamantly obdurate not to allow the Funeral till the distribution of his leftovers is over. I am his intimate friend and a super-annuated man, and I tried my level best to convince them to go ahead with the burial of dead body and defer the matter of distribution to due course of time, but none could lend me an ear. What is going now there that the legal solicitors from both sides are occupying the seats in the Drawing Room and are busy with the work of cataloging all the ornaments, jewelry and other assets, available in the house. They have unanimously decided not to conduct the interment till the job of distribution is accomplished. This biased gesture has resulted in the liquefaction of the cadaver of Haji Ramzan. The room is piled up with the ice-blocks. These blocks are melting and flowing on one hand, and the fats, accrued in the body of the Deceased, are coming out with all the rotten ingredients on the other 48

hand. Haji Ramzan was my friend and it goes without saying that such desecration of a friend is no more tolerable to another friend. Therefore I am extremely baffled and depressed, and I am so sad as if I had lost my heart, and I did not find the courage to trace out what the outcome of Haji Ramzan and when his interment took place? This incident really sent shock wave to my heart and when I pondered over this heinous situation, the following verse was large writ on my mental plate: "Those who stock the gold and silver, then do not spend them in the way of Allah, they should be communicated by you about the severe torture". When the implication of this verse crossed to my mind, the door was open to think and believe that to salt away the wealth is always conducive to dire consequences, and such avaricious and mammonish persons play havoc with their health and fall prone to heart and liver problems apart from diabetic, inflammation, venereal disease, renal colic, peptic ulcer, stone in gall bladder, dysentery 49

and what not. Such persons always suffer from insomnia, hypertension and deprivation of love from others. No due respect are given to them by one and all. If they are loved or respected by some one, the impetus being to snatch their wealth through sycophancy. It is a common observation that the fate of such person is highly drastic. Their young Survivors become infatuated in love and bid adieu to all their education and intellect and rush recklessly to the sexBonanza. More often it also happens that the son, a last resort of the old parents, if they fortunately or unfortunately are alive, resorts to those ignominious and notorious hideouts where are found the inlet and outlet of all the evils in the world. They admonish gracefully and implore their son to shun his misdeeds, and always shed tears for this grim concern, and pass their whole night anxiously awaiting for their son but all their efforts run into snag. The case being so, is there any body who can profess that such children and such wealth may yield any bit of Joy in man's life always never;

No doubt: such selfish children and such perfidious wealth are by no mean less than a drastic torment. The wealth has two faces. One is that it reduces the man to ashes through its infernal impact and the other face is that it keeps the heart and mind fraught with colorful gaiety, joy, frolic and satisfaction. The owner of wealth with this latter face, steps forward to build shelters for widows and orphans and becomes a source of salvation for others by emancipating them from the shackles of multifarious climates and catastrophes. He does not turn to be a mere animal. He bedecks his heart's piazza with twinkling bulbs, and he does not remain mentally emberile and optically blind. He weans himself away from brutality and adopts an attitude which is akin to that of Allah: My preceptor says that he was bewildered to see Muslims that every one of them is propels to be a wealthy, and none of them is ready to be Othman (R.A). Such typical persons have been threatened by the following verse of Taubah Surah:

"Be not puzzled with their wealth and children: Allah intends to frazzle them this way in this worldly life, and they shall breath last while they are disbelievers". The biographic profiles of our Prophet (P.B.U.H) discloses for us that he never opted to accumulate the wealth. One can appreciate the stand of our Prophet (P.B.U.H) and his followers (R.A) against the wealth from the treasures, latent in Roman and Persian Empires, were gushing out to them, but these votaries, though they were reigning an approximate area of 2.5 millions sq. miles continued to feed their family members with their own labor and drudgery, and spend in the way of Allah what was spared out. There is no insidious and elusive thing more than the wealth. It never showed loyalty to any one. The wealth is perfidious. The wealth is a Flabby Identity and ruins the plutotaters, and quite contrarily, the person who kicks out the wealth and attaches no significance to it he is greeted by the wealth

from all the directions. Allah categorically said in Holy Quran:

has

"We have brought forth every thing in a well measured quantity". These well-measured quantities afford the identity. It is by virtue of the well-measured quantity that one man is expressly absorbed to another man, and both remain separated though there is no distance between them as much of a millimeter. Hence the law was framed that the appropriation of the quantities is akin to establish identity and individuality, and none can contravene this law. As the man has perception, likewise the wealth also has perception. Therefore when a man escapes the identity of the wealth, the law of appropriation becomes active, and he is chased by the wealth so that the balance as per the appropriation can be maintained. On the contrary, when a man chases the wealth, it plays with him the shifty tricks eluding him and poising him for a concomitant torture.

THE BURNING OCEAN

Allah is the monitor of that hell which is boiling

with burning Oceans. This is the place, occupied with snakes, serpent and scorpions. The food, available in these volcanic precipices, is the tree of ZAQQOUM, and the drink, gushing to the entrails and veins and arteries, is the pus". The stentorian preachers say: "O Mankind: Fear Allah, if not, such a punishment will be vented to you that the mere imagination of the same is enough to melt your body and grind your bones to ashes. A serpent shall apply its force upon you and you remain sinking in the lowest stratum of the earth. Then you again will be brought back by that serpent and re-sunk as before, and you will be provided with such a hot water that by a sip of which your lips shall dangle down the chin". These are the awful words, poured deep in our ears like the melted led. A feeble and languish person, preoccupied with these drastic punishments, regards Allah as horrible and awesome. The conception of a 54

horrible God inculcates in his mind that Allah is synonymous to a very dreadful entity. Why our religious preachers and guides do not lay emphasis upon the benign traits of Allah that He is who nurtures us with nutrients while we are in mother's womb and brings us up during nine months of pregnancy. Why they do not describe who drives the dark and laden clouds from thousands of miles to pour down on our arid lands so that the earth is very picturesquely be decked with a bridal beauty, and the twinkling little stars light our visions and delight our hearts. Allah is exclusively responsible for the dissemination of colorful flowers on the surface of the earth which exude fragrance and add color to human life. The trees, plenteous of delicious fruits arrayed before us to seize the opportunity of our service. When the trees vibrate on the shoulders of the breeze, they really chant hymn to soothe the human souls. So the breeze plays its lute, the branches dance and the nature itself comes to rapture, and the rain looks as if it was a bride with the sweat 55

streaking her forehead, and what a glamour is wrapped with the gloom of rainy nights and days, because the Sun closes its eyes feeling sorry of the rain-drops and the sunrays, the cardinal function of which is to burn, turn soft and cold and all the environment is totally washed and the trees put on new costumes. O man! you can't count down the means of livelihood, provided by Allah to maintain the life, and when you grow wornup by fatigue, the night pats you gently and lulls you to sleep, and when you sunk in sound sleep, the day crawls slowly to your room and laps lightly the panels of your mind to get you up. O our intelligentsia! Our guides! why you do not make a mention of that Allah who has installed in us such a machinery, every component of which is operational without our will or volition. The heart supplies the blood to keep all the body fresh and blooming, and the brain works as transmitter, Communicating the lifecurrency to control the nervous system. The 56

entrails are busy to transform the food into the vital parts of the body, and the eyes are engaged with the videography of natural sceneries. O Our intelligentsia! our leaders! Why you are obstinate to mention the Allah in a horrifying form so that your audience may remain shivering and scared. Who is unaware of the fact that fear and horror are the prime causes of disunion and isolation. Who shall not acknowledge that the fear is anxiety and agony, and that the fear and horror construct a wall between heart and heart. O my elders! O claimants of the heritage of my predecessors! if you do believe that your father is a dragon and he shall bite you to end your life, then can you go close to him? The universal law is to safeguard the interest of peaceful and innocent civilians, and the law-imposing authorities not only commend them but also love them and make all necessary arrangements for their welfare. 57

O my intelligentsia! why don't you direct the mass behind you to abide by the law as the ruler loves those who are submissive to him, and that if you exploit the resources with a sense of gratitude and equanimity, Allah will be pleased by you, as he has created all these resources for your interest, and that if the modern man eschews to use the synthetic textiles and replaces them with rough ones, it shall result in the lockout of thousands of cloth mills, and eventually millions of people may die of starvation. This lucidity means that if the utilization of the lucrative resources is shunned, the creation of Allah shall be rendered penniless. The word "gratitude" means to utilize the Divine bounties, and the word "patience" or "tolerance" means complete surrender to Divine providence. When the bondsman deny to thank Allah and do not embellish themselves with patience, their hearts become a hot bed for worldly love - love for such world which is transient and ephemeral, Allah does not like that an ephemeral thing such as world, be recognized as the Goal of life. On the 58

contrary, Allah likes that man be always in the quest of the Eternal life in a peaceful atmosphere, and considers all the amenities and articles dust of the road. In case, you are blissful, you should avoid the evils, because Allah showers His blessings on those who are pious, and you should redeem the rights of relatives, poorer and strangers. Don't go extravagant with the money because those who squander the money are figuratively the brothers of Satan and you are well-cognizant of the fact that the Satan is the rebellious to Allah. In case, you are pauper, and are not in a position to lend a hand to the poorer, but you are confidant of the Divine benevolence, you should return them tactfully. Don't be parsimonious and don't be extravagant to sit rueful and poised for the harsh critics. Be particular in the redemption of the promises and contracts as they are questioned for. Your weighing measurement should be upto the mark as it is a good habit and occasion of good consequence. "Don't pursue such thing about which you are quite 59

in dark, because the ears, eyes and hearts all will be interrogated. Don't walk on the earth ebriated with bragging, because you never penetrate the earth and never equal the hills in stature. These misdeeds are extremely disliked by us.

SOULS BEHOLD

In case, you are either afraid of deprivation of the worldly wealth and boons, being ensnared in some invisible nets of resourcepaucity, eruption of war and hostility, falling a prey to brazen attack, brutality, turmoil or disturbance, natural calamities, devastations and destructions or preoccupied by the scare of social, political, individual and collective problems, growing grimmer with every new sun-ray. When you stand vis-a-vis either of these two ticklish problems, you should not spoil your time in futile arrangements and erroneous maneuvers, but you should proceed to a right direction to weed-out their radical cause and find their appropriate solutions, employing all your spiritual faculties. This has been quoted in Quran as "The Straight Path" and undoubtedly this is the path of success and god-speed. "Guide us to the Straight path" the path of those whom you have blessed, not (the path ) of those who are vented with your wrath and not of those who have gone astray". 61

Look what Allah responded with, to this prayer? "Any clamity that has befallen you, is due to your own earning, and He pardons much more". "Repent to Allah O believers collectively! perchance you secure success" When a man is entangled in a deep trench, dug by his misdeeds, and trapped in the nets, erected by his own hands, then he returns back to his Lord, rueful of what he had perpetrated, and acknowledges his errors, and gives his Lord his promises ENCORE, and proceeds to Him with all supplication and entreaty, and sheds from his eyes what cleans and overhauls all his spiritual systems. Such an individual or community finds gratification of Allah. To return to Allah, in religious parlance, is Repentance, and this repentance is the only active remedy for all the scare and vagary and is skeleton-key to solve all the religious and worldly problems.

Reach to the identity of Allah with the deepest point of your heart, and be dedicated for him with full attention of mind and heart, and with all gusto and brio and other abilities, bestowed by Allah. Set your life for others a living example, a walkytalky picture of love and loyalty. Indeed, such persons are included by Allah in the list of His puritan and orthodox bondsmen, and this fact may be perceived by the eyes of souls, or say, by the eyes of spiritualists. When even a layman joins this selective band of true bondsmen of Allah, his heart feel quite happy and his soul is totally pacified, and he is showered by Allah the choicest bliss, boon, benediction, radiance and light. "The bondsman is regarded nearest to Allah while he is in prostration". Therefore, if a man prostrates to other than Allah, not only he declares himself as obsequious, but he also tarnishes his national dignity and prestige.

Come on! we trace out those cardinal reasons which are responsible for the domination of your adversaries over you. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) has kept his fingers on two reasons: 1. 2.

Lust after the world. Scare of the death.

So that heart of a plucky and enthusiastic Man (Muslim) remains brimming with love of his Lord, and he does not lose his heart even in the vicissitude of times, and goes regardless of the world, and keeps himself cool and calm even in the face of drastic death. The annals of history have recorded so many veteran heroes who welcomed the martyrdom with a smile garnishing their lips as if they were enjoying the taste of a fine nectar. Don't forget that it is your duty to put an end to the collective loopholes. Be not trapped in the nets of the your foe like a fluttering bird consequent to your timidity and inferiority complex. The fear of enemy is concomitant to the perfidy and betrayal, and food 64

adulteration and parsimonious weight and measurement pave way to the famine, and injustice leads to hectic difference and wanton bloodshed. A perfidious nation is inevitably to be dominated by their enemies. So let us be watchful of ourselves and see where we are standing and how? Repeat this prayer in its original letter and spirit as uttered by our Prophet (P.B.U.H) glorifying Allah: "O Allah! cover my week spots and secure me from the scare".

THE DRY OFFSHOOT

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should trace out, employing all your sapience and sagacity, what has exposed you to the brutality and scare riots or to the devastation of natural calamities, and proceed to the straight path employing all your abilities, without spoiling your time in futile arrangements. Allah almighty says in the Surah of "ALSHOURA". "Any calamity, that has befallen you, is due to your own earning, and He pardons much more". Quran itself has prescribed the remedy as follows: "Repent to Allah O believers collectively! perchance you secure salvation". When a nation gets inside a precipitous ravine, dug by its own comittence, and retraces its steps towards Allah with a sense of bondsmanship, then they clean dirt of their sins and renew their contracts with 66

Allah. This whole process has been expressed in Quran by the terminology of "Repentance" and repentance is alone the panacea to remove every panic and awe. Recall Allah with full presence of mind and be conjuncted with Him with full attention of mind and heart and set all your life affairs a semblance of Divine attachment. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) held in his hand a dry branch of tree and shook the same violently till all its leaves fell down. Then he told: When a Muslim performs ablution perfectly, then offers five-times prayers, his sins fall down as these leaves fell down". Then Prophet (P.B.U.H) recited this verse: Maintain the prayer at either ends of the Day and during some portion of night. The misdeeds are carried away by good ones. "This is a reminder for those who are mindful". Man' s attachment with Allah alleviates the pressures of heart and showers upon him the peace and tranquillity.

Maintenance of the prayer, in spiritual parlance, is to establish contact i.e. to keep oneself in persistent touch with Allah, and the bondsman is regarded nearest to Allah while he is in prostration.

INGENUOUS HEART

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Allah decided to appoint Adam as His Caliph on the earth, Angels told: Do you appoint there who shall go berserk and shed the blood? With a bid to prove that Adam was compounded with virtue too, apart from evil, Allah instilled in Adam His traits, indicative of His creational prerogative, which were expressed as "NAMES". When He presented them before Angels, they told: "Be glorified: We have no knowledge barring what you have taught us, verily you are the omniscient, the sagacious". Through deep study it becomes crystal clear that Allah has programmed this universe two ways: Virtue and Vice. This is why Allah did not disallow the core objection, raised by the Angels. But he demonstrated that Adam was confined to be a mere vice unless and until he was dinned over by Allah, and as soon as he was dinned over, he turned to be a mere virtue. The creation of Adam preceded the creation of Angels, and they were vice-free by 69

instinct. Therefore Allah created Adam who was a compound of both: Vice and Virtue, so as to avoid the evil and go for virtue, keeping himself firm on the right path and inviting his progeny too, to the same path. This is the invitation for which (1,24,000) messengers were sent and this is what is call as "PROPAGATION". Allah Almighty says : "Call to the way of your Lord with tactics and rhetoric sermon and discuss with them in a better way". This Quranic verse provides us with three guidelines: 1.

The call should be accorded tactfully with an aim to eschew any mishappening and to adopt any good thing.

The advise should not be discharged in a repulsive and injurious fashion. The face of the preacher should be fresh and

eyes brimming with love and solidarity and heart with sincerity. 3.

If some controversy erupts in the course of talk, you should check your voice not allowing to be crude, and if the criticism is inevitable, you should be restricted to the constructive and courteous one. The way of negotiation should be attractive and luscious, not provocative and acrimonious, and if the addressee resorts to insurgency and obduracy, you should rein your mouth as it is the better for his interest.

PROPAGATION

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mention of Ibrahim in the scripture. Really he was righteous prophet, when he told his father: Why you worship that which neither hears nor sees nor suffice you to any extent. O my father! I have acquired the knowledge which you haven't, so follow me and I shall guide you to the right path. O my father! Don't worship Satan. The Satan was rebellious to (Allah) the benevolent. O my father: I apprehend that a torture from (Allah), the benevolent, may touch you so you will befriend the Satan. He said: Do you deviate me from my gods O Ibrahim? If you Do not end to do so, I shall undoubtedly stone you. Leave me alone for a long while. He told: peace be upon you. I soon shall seek pardon of my Allah for you. Indeed, he was gracious with me. And I shall depart you and that which you call beside Allah. I hope, I shall not remain bereft of (the result of) my prayer". "

So you should devote your money and time in the way of the deliverance of Divine message, and be apt to concede any sacrifice. To withstand the hardships in the way of Allah and to convey to Divine message to 72

the bondsman are regarded as compliance to the duties, ordained by Allah and as the gratitude for the boons, conferred by Allah when a man assumes the responsibility of calling the Human Being to the right path, employing all his physical and spiritual capabilities, he is seconded by a special cooperation of Angels, and they include the true emotions of that bondsman in their consolation programs. Any how, the propagation campaign befits only those who have undergone spiritual resurgence and are the undeterred and resolute way-makers to the truth. Such persons are fully poised to receive the following Quranic harbinger: "Those who travailed for our course, will be unfailingly beckoned to our path".

LANDMARKS

He has chosen you and has not implicated you,

with religious viewpoint, in any inconvenience. It is the creed of your father Abraham, He had designated you as Muslims before, and in this regard the prophet must be witness for you and you must be witnesses for the mankind". "We have appointed you a moderate Nation so that you all be witnesses for the Mankind and the prophet be a witness for you". He (Allah) enacted for you such a religion which He commended in Noah, and which we revealed to you ( O Mohammad), and which we commended Abraham, Mosses and Jesus, ordaining to maintain the religion and be not disintegrated therein. "You are the best Nation, brought on to the Mankind, you enjoin the established norms and dissuade indecency and believe in Allah". "One who prefers other than Islam as his religion, it will not be accepted by Allah, and in 74

the life hereafter, he will among those who shall concede the horrible loss". "The true religion to Allah is only Islam". So you should enlighten yourself with Islamic teachings and be confident that the only religion, in view of Allah, is the religion of peace and truth, and that any procedure of service-offering (or servitude) other than of Islam shall be construed by Allah null and void. So the true and Zero-defect religion to Allah is the religion, the Salient Features of which very explicitly have been spelt out in the Holy Quran, and a total semblance of which was the life of our Prophet (P.B.U.H). Hence Allah wished the Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H) to declare unequivocally: "This is my way. I call to Allah perspecariously, supported by my followers, Allah be glorified! I am nothing to do with those who are polytheists". So please be strictly adherent to the principles of Islam in view of their significance and this was the uphill Task, for the completion of which the Messengers 75

were sent by Allah regularly, and this is the largess to remain an asset for dignity and sublimate in both the worlds.

THE CREATIONAL FORMULAE

The Holy Quran is such a scripture which implies no iota of doubt or suspicion, and which imparts guidance to those righteous who believe in invisible, and the belief culminates in presentiment and observation of invisible, and this is what has been termed in Hadith as "INSAN" (Perfection). Moreover, the Holy Quran is such a credible Document which, all along with the Social code, includes formulae, responsible for the subjection of the universes and these formulae speak out very conspicuously of our ability to run through the shackles of Time and Space provided we procure the indepth knowledge of Quran. One who is conversant with Quranic mysteries may fly over in the space and transmit a certain object from one place to another without any intervention of external support. He is the bondsman whom Allah has blessed and for whom He has subjected every thing available in the earth and skies. And this fact may not be gainsaid that the guidance of the Human on this earth 77

exclusively depends upon the Holy Quran of Allah, so please recite Quran with a resolute and abiding belief that you have to edify the structure of your life with its judicious teachings, and because Quran resembles a mirror that shows you clearly all the stains and spots marring your facial beauty, and because Quran is like an Encyclopedia! that covers all your ifs and buts in a very elaborate fashion. Now it is left to you how far you benefit yourself with the bounties, latent in the pages of Holy Quran. Hence Allah rightly has said: "This a sacred book, revealed to you, so that they may think about its verses and so that the intelligentsia may recall".

REPENTANCE

Admit your sins at the threshold of Divine abode, burst, into tears, in front of Him, and reckon yourself crest fallen and helpless in front of your Lord, who is forgiver, benevolent, and who ignores the defects and pardons the sins, and acknowledge your misdeeds, because the humility and selfdenial are the assets to be presented to Allah alone. In case, these priceless assets are presented by the man to a man, on par with him, he is deprived of those costly assets and is rendered homeless and hopeless, and all his Glaring regards turn to the benighted disregards. So the Repentance is a service through which a penitent denies his personality and divulges before his Lord all that not likely be divulged before others. verily, Allah is our savior and sympathizer who showers upon us His countless blessings. He says: "And your Lord is the forgiver and merciful, If he would trapped them with what they have carried through, He could have expedited the torture to 79

them. But they have a deadline, subsequent to which, they shall find no go". "He is that who accepts the repentance from His bondsmen, and pardons misdeeds and is aware of what you practice". Indeed, the correct ideology is that the bondsman, irrespective of the magnitude of his sins, should render the tribute of his tears, mingled with all his servitude and humility, to Allah alone. There is no door to fetch you what you hanker after, save that of Allah who is capable to concede millions of your demands per day. Our Benign Allah has subjected every thing for the service of His bondsmen. The availability of our resources, our culminative growth and decrepitude as per the law, and our disease and cure all these dictated by our Allah who owns unrestricted powers. Allah Almighty says: "O Believers! Convey your pure repentance to Allah. Sooner or later your Lord shall expiate your sins and let you enter gardens underneath 80

which the river are flowing, on the day when Allah shall not discredit the Prophet and the Believers". When a nation gets buried in an awful ravine of its sins, and treks back to Allah with a sense of bondsman ship, and clean their sins, minor or major, with the flowing rueful tears, and renew their contracts with Allah, this sincere attitude has been termed in Quran as "REPENTANCE" and this is alone is a "Cure-all" for all sorts of catastrophes Turmoils and sense of insecurity. On the contrary, when a bondsman remains quite indifferent with all his sins and dereliction, such a Satanic attitude digs him out and he is destined to a sheer Fiasco in both the worlds. When the same attitude enshrouds all his life, his heart and ears are totally sealed and his eyes are covered with a thick curtain, and his ultimate goal is a dire torment, causing for him all the despair, misery, scare and fear. Allah says in the Surah of "Repentance":

"All the calamities, which have befallen you, are due to your misdeeds, while Allah pardons much more". Quran itself has prescribed the remedy as follows: "Repent to Allah collectively O believers, perchance you secure the salvation". The betrayal and disbelief in a nation dig in their hearts the woe of foe, fears and superstitions. The trends of desparity in weight and measurement, hoarding and smuggling may appear extremely attractive and charming, but, in long run, they shall prove fatal in the forms of famine and indigence. So return yielding to Allah, your real creator, and be determined to eradicate these malpractices from your society.

BENIGN ORIGINS

According to Quranic texts, any procedure of service offering, other than that of Islam, shall be considered by Allah null and void. So the true and divinely recognized religion is that one, the salient features of which very explicitly have been elucidated in the Holy Quran, and a total semblance of which was the life of prophet (P.B.U.H). Hence Allah exhorted the prophet (P.B.U.H) to declare unequivocally that the way, adopted by him, is not a fluke, but based upon a total discernment. "Say (O Muhammad)! this is my way. I call to Allah perspecariously, supported by my followers. Allah be glorified: I am nothing to do with those who are polytheists". "One who prefers other than Islam as his religion, it will not be accepted by Allah, and in the life hereafter, he will be among those who shall concede the horrible loss". "The true religion to Allah is only Islam". 83

The religious privilege, conferred by Allah on Muslim Nation, is not but an asset of dignity and sublimity in both the worlds. By no mean it is to be compared to the world luxuries and splendors which are ephemeral and weaker than the cob web. Quran, addressing the Christians and Jews, says: "O Kitabis: You are nothing unless you maintain the Bible, and Evangel and what has been revealed to you by your Lord". There should be no room for doubt that the religious jurisprudence, coupled with meticulous comprehension, is the stream of all virtues and welfare, and one who has been denied this thing, he has been denied all the boons and bounties of both the worlds, and his life shall be undaunted by tranquillity and content. To propagate the Divine Mission (Islam) is an ordained duty of every true Muslim. Prior to discharge your duty, you should identify yourself as the self-Identification is 84

regarded such a godspeed through which the man becomes a veracious example of his mission, and whatever is uttered by him, is readily translated to the realm of practice. Or, in a nutshell, he sets himself a true symbol when he calls others to join him for the dissemination of the ethical and theological mission of Prophet ( P.B.U.H.). " It roils Allah extremely that you do say what you do not do". Even the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has categorically warned the impractical preachers of deterrent punishments.

THE GREAT BENEFACTION

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Holy Quran has laid a good deal of stress on the obedience and service of parents. When we think deeply about the outstanding place of the parents, it becomes evidently clear that they are tremendous benefactors for us, as they are figuratively a pair of components in the genesis machinery of the nature, and actually they are instruments for the continuity of birth cycle. A man, as such, opens his eyes in this brilliant world by the means of parents, and this instrumentality plays a very vital role in the exaltation and veneration of the parents. The parents crave for a child, and through conjugal process, mother begins carrying a new life within her feeble body and continues to do so for several months. This new life grows from the parts of her body and thus becomes a part of her body. This relationship of mother and child remains undisrupted even in post-natal tenure. The mother, on one hand, leaves no stone unturned to fetch her child all his requirements and remove from him all that 86

may ail him, and the father, on other hand, departs his home early in the morning to secure the livelihood and returns back, employing all his vivacity and energy to procure the necessary provision. These are the great benefactions, due to which Allah has mentioned the parents rights immediately after the description of His rights. "Your Lord has decreed that you do not worship but Him and show kindness to the parents". In view of all those facts, you should always behave with them submissively and respectfully and not give chance to any thing, unpleasant for them, or injurious to their hearts. It is a fact that the age of superannuation reminds a man of his feebleness and adenoma, and his feeling becomes very sharp. Therefore you should not commit any dereliction in the service of parents and not allow anything conducive to their reluctance. Allah says : 87

"If one of them or both of them grow superannuated with you, don't express rue to them and don't repulse them".

HOW TO TALK ?

goes without saying that the style of conversation refracts the personality of the speaker. A man, with his luscious tone, can make his addressee spell-bound. When you are required to have a chat in any public or private gathering, speak with all the serenity and balance. Apart from this, you should also deep into your mind, that all the words, crossing your lips, are being recorded by Angels in their supernatural instruments. A gracious tone, compounded with medium sound, decency and a beaming smile, makes the speaker highly popular with the commonplace. On the contrary, a stentorian who always vociferates for no cause, undergoes some tension in his nerves, leading him ultimately to some mental complications. Such a man inculcates, in the mind of his addressee, a bad impression of intimidation. This hectic style has its repulsive impact, drying out all the love and tendency, latent in the heart of the addressee. 89

An eloquent and melodious person enjoys himself with his own voice and creates rapture in the hearts of others too. A sweet and perfect voice gladdens even Allah, therefore Allah is so critical of the donkeys blatant bray where He says : "The most indecent voice is that of the donkeys". Be sure of completing your subject as this is a talking decorum, and avoid pugnacity and crude language, keep your self away from back-biting as it is synonymous to consume the flesh of your brother while he is dead. Don't make a mockery of others as it wraps the convolutions of your brain with gloomy shadows. Likewise refrain from making complaints because it is a deadline for the love and don't play derisive tactics with others because this habit gives rise to superiority complex which makes a man equal to the Devil (IBLIS) and don't extol yourself because all the elite cadre shall refrain your company and all the sordid and sycophant faction of the society shall encroach upon you and take you down the earth. In addition to all these, please don't 90

pass caustic and satirical remarks to anyone, and don't exercise mouthful oaths with every trivial movements of your lips because this attitude shall malign your image and you shall remain bereft of others ' love and regard.

PILGRIMAGE

Allah says : "Mankind's due to Allah is that the person who can sustain the traveling expenses, should visit His House, and who refuses to do so , then Allah is indifferent to all the Creatures". He also say : "And neither those who are bound to Kaba in quest of the grace and appeasement of their Lord". He also says: "Go ahead with Haj and Umrah for Allah". He also says: "Equip yourselves with provision for the best provision is the piety". He also says : "No Skirmish during Haj Season" 92

He also says: "When you accomplish your Haj duties, start mention of Allah as you mention your forefathers but with more application". Indeed the pilgrims are the Guest of honors to Allah, This is why the performance of Haj carries success in both the worlds and really Haj is such a function which deters the pilgrims from disobedience to Allah. The bondsman touches emotionally the Black stone and renews the primitive vow, made by him in the spiritual world when Allah Questioned all the Mankind : "Am I not your Lord" and all of them responded very submissively : "Why not ?". Any how, the bondsman takes all the reckoning. Hence he tolerates all the traveling pains, the crowd hustles, and many other burdens and injuries, and tackles one and all very generously and courteously, fully complying with the Divine ordinance : "No Skirmish during Haj season".

This has been emphatically stressed, that a man, during Haj season, should not go loquacious and not be carried with the internal and external lurks, and if the wife and husband are co-pilgrims, they should not only observe sexual continence, but also should avoid all the things, awaken the dormant concupiscent emotions. Allah says : "Haj means some famous months. So the person, who intends to perform Haj during them, should not indulge in obscenity and debauchery". It is a very common and exhilarating scene that the hands of pilgrims. having seamless cloth-sheets, raise their voices with the following Divine Hymn (Talbiah), after every prayer, and whenever they descend down or ascend up : "I have responded to you O' Allah, I have responded to you, You have no partner, I have responded to you: The praise, bounty and sovereignty are meant for you. You have no partner". 94

EXORBITANT EXPENDITURES

If you are giving some thing in the way of Allah, please give with no string attached thereto. Don't have such high expectation that the Donees remain extremely grateful and beholded to you. To spend in the way of Allah is not a matter of boast or a mean of cheep popularity. It is a mere benediction from Allah that He enabled you to have upper hand. Don't forget that the man, to whom you are extending your hand, was too begotten, just like you, from the belly of his mother, and that he too has laden with the same sentiments and emotions, as you have. If he is compelled to food and cloths you too are not an exception. Then you are nothing independently ,and what you have is a largess from Allah, and having spent this largess of Allah over the poor bondsmen of Allah, if you hurt their self-dignity, and expect from them to acknowledge your supremacy and break their hearts by counting your favours, conferred on them, such behaviour is the most heinous and deplorable. Allah, who enabled you to support others, says in the Holy Book: 95

" O Believers ! Don't undo your alms-giving by reproach and injury like one who spends just to show the people " So it is our moral and religious duty to spend in the way of Allah very generously and whole-heartedly as a token of thank for the boons, bounties and all life facilities, granted to us by Allah unrestrictedly. Those who spend half-heartedly and feel some post-expenditure pinch, are not worthy of any commendation or replacement. How a man, tending strongly to spend in the way of Allah, be kept bereft of Divine benefactions? Allah clears this interrogative mark in the Quran where he says : "You can't get the blessing until you spend what you lust after". Don't forget that Allah has imposed upon you the religious taxes, so pay them out unabated, and don't throw them to those who are not entitled for them as if a square disbursement was a burden upon you. You 96

should search for a true needy person so that the cardinal cause of "Zakath" may be served.

TWO WIVES

It is a crying need of the time that the ladies too should go on learning the religious ordains and norms, and bedeck themselves with Islamic character, and try their level best to come out as good wives and good mothers, and to discharge their duties in the total compliance with Divine orders. Allah says : " O Believers ! save yourselves and your family members from the Fire". Hazrat Omer (R.A) was keeping his night alive with the mention of Allah, and just before the down break-out, he was awaking his life-partner. exhorting her to get up fast and perform the Dawn-prayer, and was reciting the following verse : "Insist your family on prayer-performance and be yourself persistent to do the same". It is obligatory on the parts of ladies not to allow any letup in arranging and decorating 98

their houses and to maintain them from hygienic viewpoints, and prove their fine ability and taste to pile-up the home-articles in trim appearance. A clean and salubrious home, well-set and embellished rooms, clean and well-equipped kitchen, decorous touches to home-duties, and the sacred and unblemished smile of the wife, are the basic components of the house not only to invoke the Divine benediction and fill the house milleiu with happiness and joy, but also to please Allah Almighty. Once happened that Hazrat Ayasha (R.A. ) found Mrs. Othman Bin Madh, out in a very simple dress with no decorative touch. She was much surprised to see such a thing and questioned whether Hazrat Othman was out of station? No doubt, This mindful question of Ayesha (R.A.) was self explanatory, and you can appreciate from it that the beautificational concern of a wife for his husband has a high magnitude of desirability. Tolerance, sustenance and tactical balance lead a husband to adopt the policy of ignorance and making a better of his half better, deposing his unabated faith in Allah. 99

It may not be ruled out that Allah, by the dint of that wife, may confer on her husband such boons that are ostensibly beyond his reach. The opinions may not differ around the fact that a religious woman, due to her faith, character and conduct, comes as mercy for all her family, and can give birth to such a pure soul that may turn a beacon light for others. Moreover, a good and righteous wife is quite instrumental for the reformation of her wicked husband. This is why a wife takes her husband near the paradise, and her good fortune invokes all the weal and wealth for the husband. So you are advised not to spoil your matrimonial relations impatiently keeping in view the defective outlook of your wife. On contrary, you should steadily and judiciously allow the troubled water to set. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) says : "If a man has two wives and his inclination towards one was more than towards other, he will be resurrected on Dooms Day with half his body paralyzed". 100

The family life sets a real course for the acid test of courtesy and good temperament because a man remains constantly in touch with his family members, so the mannerismfree life of the home exposes all the black & white of his character. This is also a fact that a believer may not be rated perfect in his belief unless, and until he is of a good behavior, love and affection towards his family members. In this connection, it would be recalled as at one occasion of Haj, the camel of Hazrat Safiya (R.A. ) Knelt so she began to weep. As soon as this was Communicated to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.), he rushed to the spot and began to wipeout her tears with his hand and she began to shed tears more torrentially.

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THE STRAIGHT PATH

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Allah decided to appoint Adam as His caliph on the earth, Angels told: "Do you appoint there who shall go berserk and shed the blood? With a bid to prove that Adam was compounded with virtue too, apart from evil. Allah instilled in Adam His traits, indicative of His creational prerogative, which were express as "Names". When He presented them before Angels, they told, Be glorified We have no knowledge barring what you have taught us verily your are the omniscient, the sagacious ". Through deep study it becomes crystal clear that Allah has programmed this universe two ways: Virtue and vice, This is why Allah did not disallow the core objection, raised by the Angels. But He demonstrated that Adam was confined to be a mere vice unless and until he was dinned over by Allah, and as soon as he was dinned over, he turned to be a mere virtue. The creation of Adam preceded the creation of Angels, and they were vice-free by instinct. Therefore Allah created Adam who was a compound of both 102

: Vice and virtue, so as to avoid the evil and go for virtue, keeping himself firm on the right path and inviting his progeny too, to the same path. This is the invitation for which (124000) messengers were sent and this is what we call as ' PROPAGATION '. Allah Almighty says : "Call to the way of your Lord with tactics and rhetoric sermon and discuss with them in a better way". This Quranic verse provides us with three guidelines : 1. The Call Should be accorded tactfully with an aim to eschew any mishappening and to adopt any good thing. 2.

The advice should not be discharged in a repulsive and injurious fashion. The face of the preacher should be fresh and eyes brimming with love and solidarity and heart with sincerity.

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allowing to be crude, and if the criticism is inevitable, you should be restricted to the constructive and courteous one! The way of negotiation should be attractive and luscious, not provocative and acrimonious, and if the addressee resorts to insurgency and obduracy, you should rein your mouth as it is the better for his interest. The propagation of Islam always has involved two ways: The first one is that the man should negotiate his addressee according to his mental capabilities, and should win his heart with his moral power, and take care of his needs and solve his problems as if they were his own ones. As far as the other way is concerned, it is to communicate your ideas to others through essays and speeches, keeping in view that this one is an age of writing and speaking, and all the distances have shrunk, or rather, have converged. The expansion of the earth has been reduced to a globe. With a sonic viewpoint, the distance between U.S. and Karachi is less than that of 104

a room. To cast a news over London and U.S. from Karachi has been a daily routine. The same thing is going with the writing. There is a vast cluster of publication. A passage, typed in U.S. or an any other overseas country, is legible in Karachi or Islamabad as if the same was being typed in Karachi or Islamabad. The writing leaves on the reader such an impact that cultivates the intellectual nuclei of the mind which turn to souring tree. Therefore, you should maintain equanimity and restraint in your writing and speech using an optimistic phraseology, and avoiding a pessimistic and menacing method which makes a reader or listener respondent of Divine mercy and totally confused about his reformation or salvation. Please use in your writing the encouraging words and present such an idea of Divine Love that may replace the scare with regard and respect so that he may accept the Divine Mercy with all his respects to the Doner. Hazrat Ali (R.A.) says :

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"The best scholars are those who invite to Divine path in such a way which does not ward off the invitees from the threshold of Allah, and who do not present such image of Allah which makes them indifferent with their accountability to Allah for disobedience". You have to participate permanently, in the propagation of Islam and dissemination of Divine knowledge though on a small scale, and to call the mankind to exploit their internal talents, and to welcome wholeheartedly all the difficulties and hardships, waiting for you in this way. as the Prophet said: "The dearest work to Allah is that lasts for long though it is meager".

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MUSLIMS' RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS PARENTS

It is narrated that a man came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H) and complained against his father that he takes what he wants from his assets. The father was called for by the prophet(P.B.U.H.). He came leaning on the stick as he was very languid and decrepit. The Prophet(P.B.U.H.) narrated on him what was complained by his son. The father simply told "O Prophet of Allah peace be upon you: We lived up a time when my this child was very weak and good for nothing, and I was strong and wealthy, I did not frustrate him to take any thing from my wealth. Today, when the case is fortunately or unfortunately reverse, I am being denied his wealth". This dolorous comment filled the eyes of the Prophet(P.B.U.H.) With tears, and he said, turning to the complaint maker, " You and your assets are under the disposal of your father ".

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Even when the parents are disbelievers, you are enjoined by Islam to behave with them kindly, respect them and render your services for them except when you are disconcerted by them to be polytheist and to disobey Allah, as Allah Says in Surah Luqman : "If they (parents) pressurize you to make for Allah a partner about whom you do not have any bit of knowledge, don't concede to their pressure and be associated with them kindly in this world". Imam Bukhari has narrated through Hazrat Asma (R.A.) that she said : "In the regime of Quresh, when they entered an agreement with Prophet (P.B.U.H.), my mother visited me, and yet she had not embraced Islam. Inquiring in this matter, I asked Prophet (P.B.U.H), "My mother has come to me while she is willing to embrace Islam. Can I maintain my relation with her", The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) replied affirmatively; "Yes, you can".

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It is quite incontrovertial that the sacrifices, made by the mother are more in comparison to those of the father, therefore the emphasis on showing kindness has been laid more in favor of mother, as Allah says, "We have directed the human to do favour with his parents. His mother carried him arduously and delivered him arduously, and the period of his carrying and weaning ( by her ) is thirty months". In recognition of the yeoman services, rendered by the parents and commemoration of their ample benefactions, you should pray to Allah for them with full devotion and sincerity, as Allah says imperatively. "And say : O my Lord : bless them as they brought me up when I was infant". The implications of this prayer are; "O my Lord! requite them with the same benevolence, benediction and mercy, which were showered by them upon me round the clock, and now, when they have reached the 109

phase of senility and their bones have become weak, they are in need of mercy and benevolence more than any body else, and I am not in the position of repaying their services, so O Lord: you patronize them on my behalf and shower upon them your choicest mercies".

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THE LOVE

Befriend

those who are worthy of your friendship on humanitarian basis. As it is obligatory on your part to select as friends pure-hearted persons, likewise it is also necessary for you to maintain the friendship and redeem its prerequisites. A true friend is always your frank colleague, cheerful companion and complacent associate. The prerogative of friendship is that you should not get monotonous of your friends and that they should regard your company a matter of satisfaction. The amusement with friends is one of the great human values. Good friends always maintain equanimity and sobriety in amusement. You should occasionally speak out your love to whom you love because this gesture plays a vital role to roll your friend near you. Apart from this, the bilateral exchange of feelings and emotions gives enormous and extra-ordinary rise to the sincerity and regard manifestation. The sentiments of love and sincerity inculcate a high cordial attachments, which on their turn, have a tremendous impact on the practical life, and 111

as such, both the friends set an example of intimacy and love-incarnation. Suppose you want to get your friendly ties closer and effective, you should serve your friends. Moreover, if we ponder over the attribution of Allah with "creator", we vividly find out that His foremost trait is service to the creature. Therefore when a bondsman shoulders the mission of human service, inspired by the universal fraternal relation, the vistas of the paradise are kept open for him and the universe is subjected to him. Our predecessors left no stone unturned for the overall upliftment of the lower stratum of the society, and they desired for their friends what they desired for themselves. Of course, the best person is one who benefits the mankind, and any one who benefits the humanity, without sex consideration, is the real philanthropist. So come on: We pray together our lord to purify our hearts from rancor, malice, hatred and obduracy, and patch the broken hearts, and direct us to the path of mutual solidarity

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so that we can constitute an ideal human society. Repeat always this comprehensive Quranic prayer: " O our Lord! pardon us and our brothers who preceded us towards faith, and don't induct in our hearts even a least rancor for those who believed. O our Lord! verily you are benign and benevolent".

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" HANDLE THE GLASS WITH CARE "

Have you thought why Allah enjoined His bondsmen so emphatically to spend in His way all that he has open-heartedly? Only because Allah knows very well that the financial assets are more preferable for the bondsman, and that his disbursement from his wealth is indeed a defrayal of the rights of his fraternal relative down through Adam. Allah does not require any thing, but We accept whatever is spent by His bondsman towards the betterment of his universal brothers. To beat a drum of what you have given in the way of Allah is a contemptuous attitude towards poorer and needy, and to hurt their dignity may be interpreted to mean that he aims to prove his superiority by his derisive gesture, while a true believer is always devoid of all these impurities. So don't scratch the glasses of hearts and abide by this Divine ordain: "O believers I don't undo your alms giving by reproach and injury like one who spends just to show the people". 114

Allah also says : "You can't get the blessing until you spend what you lust after".

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SLEEP EARLY WAKE UP EARLY

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from passing night sleepless and compensating this sleeplessness with daydoze, because Allah has created the night for rest and peace and the day for life-tussles. It is a common scene that those who go to bed late, are unable to leave their beds early, while leaving bed, prior to the sun-rise, is of enormous significance. A man, doing so, finds himself more active and vivacious in tackling his business and discharging his duties. If the sleep is stringed with the sun, going high and vivid in the horizon, it creates lethargy and lassitude in the nerves, leading to inquietude and perturbance, both of them paving way to paranoia and superstition, both of them a causing fear and scare. No doubt that those who are prone to fear and scare, are bereft of Divine friendship. Allah says : "He is that who made the night for you a cover and the sleep a repose and made the day a resurrection". 116

"We did your sleep a repose and did the night a cover and did the day a strife for livelihood". "Have they not seen that we appointed the night to provide with relief and the day with light. It carries indicatives for those who believe". Those who remain snoring throughout the day due to their lethargy and due to their sleeplessness, having engaged themselves in night clubs and casinos, they tend to demolish their health structures with their own hands.

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A DROP OF WATER

And he it is who sends the winds as a harbinger

to escort His blessing, and we poured from the sky pure water so as to resuscitate through it a dead town and we supply it for drinking purpose to the cattle and mankind whom we created, and we have distributed it among them to be a reminder. but bulk of the people stuck to ingratitude". Water is a compound and a plain substance and even a drop of it does not cease to be When it is simply evaporated from the river, transformed into the clouds and from there when it came down in the desert, it made its way again into space. When it rained on the gardens, it penetrated in the case of the fruits in the form of dew, and thence in our stomachs where either it lasted in the body as its part or went out through kidneys, and if it falls over the sea, it is just like its repatriation. To sum up. the drop any how remains in one form or another. So when water lasts while it is compound, the soul also shall last rather 118

because it is simple. As the sun-rays trace out the water, fallen on the arid deserts, and take back to the remote sky, likewise all the life drops, fallen on the vital organs of the human bodies, return ultimately to nonlocational venues. "About what they are questioning each other? About that stupendous news in regard of which they are badly divided. Nay! Soon they shall know. Again Nay! Soon they shall know. Have we not made the earth a foot hold?" The Sun confers on us the light, and the water-borne clouds and the fruit-laden trees provide us with energy and vitality, After a short duration of utilization, we make our way from this world to another world. So as the destination of a bird is somewhere beyond its nest, likewise our Final Destination too is beyond this materialistic world. Really we have not lodged here in this world but just to pass some tough time. Quran has exhorted quite emphatically to go deep into to the Divine landmarks of the universe where it says : 119

"He it is who made for you the stars so as to forge ahead in gloomy cover of land and sea. We have detailed the verses for those who possess some knowledge". "Among His portents are the creation of skies and earth and diversity of your languages and colours. These have certain indicatives for the mankind". "Don't you see that Allah rained down water from the sky, so we brought through it so many multi-colored fruits, and likewise the mountains have the white and red streaks of different types and some of them are extremely black, and on the same pattern, the mankind, cattle and live-stocks are of various colours ". "The cattle provide you with some lesson. We give you to drink what comes out of their bellies from betwixt their refuse and the blood, pure milk, delicious to the drinkers. and the fruits of palm trees and grapes, out of which you extract drink and good provision. This has indicative for those who are sensible. And your Lord communicated the bee to synthise houses in the 120

mountains and trees and the thatches, erected by the people, then eat all the fruits and tread the path of your Lord gently. Their bellies yield multi-coloured drink which has remedial effects over the people. It has an indicative for those who think deep".

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THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

Say! Allah is one. Allah is the besought of all.

He neither begot nor was begotten, and there was none to equal Him". In this Holy Surah, Allah has described His five attributes that he is second to none, that he is needy to none. that he is not the begetter and that he is not begotten and, that he is comparable to none. Quite contrary to creator's this definition: 1. The creature don't have solo-existence, and it is necessary for the creature to be in plenty. 2.

The definition of the creature itself indicates their need to one and every thing.

If there is no father for the creature, its existence is out of question.

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The real identity of the creatures is their families, and every species indeed a complete family.

Let us see how we, as His creatures, are attached to the attributes of Allah. Allah is one while the creature is enormous. Allah is not born to anyone while the creature is born. The creature may be a father or a mother while Allah is beyond all these maternal and paternal relations. The creatures live together under the umbrella of one family, while Allah has nothing to do with all these. There is only One Attribute that may be shared by the creatures through their total detachment from every thing. This is the attribute of "SAMAD". To sum up, when bondsman attaches himself to Allah and swerves his mind from all the materialistic media, he quite unambiguously reveals that his creature and provider is but Allah. Those bondsmen, who live adherent to the confidence, when they strive, their strife does not come under this pretension that the results of our strife are subject to our wills, 123

but only because Allah wants us keep moving as long as this picturesque universe keeps up its rotation in the orbit until it reaches the Final Destination and makes its entry to the world before the Genesis.

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TWO ASPECTS OF THE LIFE

All the praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Universes who, by the virtue of His paramount traits of Lordship, caters to our nutritional requirements and helps us mop up all our socio-economic vital problems, and harboured us on this earth providing us with all the amenities of the life. The Human life has two aspects : Waking and sleep. During the waking tenure as in the sleep too, he is resorted to certain devices of relax and comfort. The state of sleep is due to the arduous work, exercises during awaking, when a man gets worn up by fatigue and consequently sleeps, then he regains all his energy and vitality. It is a natural phenomenon that man spiritually jumps from the state of waking to a world where he was prior to his birth. So a man whenever sleeps, he makes his journey in the invisible world, and he, being in that world, absorbs the spiritual waves, and when he comes back, he finds himself packed with new energy, vivacity and new gusto and brio. 125

It was ordained by our Prophet (P.B.U.H) that a man-before going to bed, should recite some parts of Quran to invoke the spiritual blessings in the state of waking before closing eyes to the invisible world. He (P.B.U.H.) says : "Any person who goes to bed and recites a Surah of the Divine scripture (Quran), Allah sends for him an angel to guard him against any thing that can cause him any problem until he gets up from his sleep whenever he gets up". You should select such dormitory which is frequently intercepted by fresh air and plenty of oxygen, and not sleep in such tightly closed room which has no ventilation and keep in mind that sleeping, with your face covered with some cloth, is much injurious to your health. Keep your face exposed to the fresh air and recite this prayer before sleeping: " O Allah by your name I sleep and getup".

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Say. " O Allah. The key-holder of sovereignty. You confer the sovereignty on whom you want, and you snatch the sovereignty from whom you want. In your possession lies the good. Indeed you are dominant over every thing. You induct the night in the day and induct the day in the night. and provide whom you want with no limitation." On par with the day and night rotation, the supremacy also has its rotative share in world nations. It is needless to remind you of the long cherished civilizations of Babylon and Egypt how they were undermined after they reached the pinnacle of fame and celebrity. The East was, at some time, an effervescent center of civilization which subsequently made its way to west while Greek. Afterward, Greek itself was split in so many small counties to meet its tragic end, then it was the turn of Rome where the civilization flourished by leaps and bounds and covered all occidental belts. After some duration, Iran had its civilizational break 127

through, which lasted till the advent of Islam which irrigated all the oriental and occidental areas through its perennial water ways of profound knowledge and erudition. And when, very tragic to admit, Muslims lost their identity and tarnished their milkywhite character, the convoy of civilization retraced towards the west. The present traumatic situation is that the backward nations are a pathetic semblance of deterioration and disgrace. The bankruptcy of the Muslim nation may be easily appreciated through this bitter fact that they have not achieved even their economic sufficiency apart from arts and science. A nation that was implementing the Quranic decrees and injunctions on everyone, reached today the Lowest edge of economic paucity, covering the vistas of their minds with unpeneterable curtains. A misery like interest has made the Muslims an unathoritative nation, so helpless that they do not brace themselves up even to declare a fact fearlessly. Allah says : 128

"O believers fear Allah and discard the remaining interest if you are real believers. If you do not comply with this, then beware of a war from Allah and His Prophet". All the Muslims perform prayers. observe fast, go on pilgrimage, and pay out the religious tax (Zakath), but much to our intauration and chagrin, how the prayer of God's enemy be construed valid? and how he may be benefitted with the blessings of fast while he is in a war state with Allah, and how those, whom Allah has declared openly His enemies, make the round of Kaba and enlighten themselves with the luminous facets of Kaba. The history itself stands as a irrefutable witness of the fact that any nation, which made a mockery of Divine rule, was driven to a precipitous down fall. Is the time not ripe for us to check our internal and external functions?

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Water is defined scientifically as H2+O1, and if you bring about even a marginal change in its quantity, it shall turn to be a deadly poison. Even if these two components are kept in equal quantity, they shall form some toxic and fatal mixture. Indeed, hydrogen and oxygen are two toxic and deadly gases, and with slight differences in their weights, you can prepare millions of toxic compounds, but, quite strangely, when they are kept in the proportion of H2O they yield water which is an inevitable source of life for all that available in the Universe. Hence Allah says. "We have conferred life on every thing through Water". "We have created every thing in a calculated measure". "We do have the stocks of every thing but we send down only in them some stipulated quantity". Glory be to Allah: How many portents He has set for true thinkers. 130

Lemon and black pepper are made of 10 and 20 proportions of hydrogen and carbon respectively, but the disparity in their appropriate quantities diversifies their shapes, colors, sizes and effects. Likewise, the coal and diamond are the products of carbon but the difference of quantity makes one of them extremely black and the other gleamy white. Apart from this one of them is easily crushable and cheap, and the other is adamantive and quite costly. One confers on the man a new life while the other is used in the rings for decorative purposes. Allah, the Lord of Universes, have created the man with love and solidarity, and by the virtue of same love and solidarity He wants the man to hold the rein of this Universe to impose the Divine order upon the inhabitants of the Universe to fulfill the right of being the viceroy of Allah.

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structure of this Universe tells us unequivocally, that every object IN ESSE, has been established somewhere else much earlier, and that the past and present of every thing are interlinked. When we make a mention of past, we implicitly acknowledge the family and race of some particular thing. If it was possible for us to exchange a talk with the almond tree, it could have narrated to us very eloquently its pedigree in the same fashion in which a human gives the details of his genealogical tree, while accounting for his family dignity and prestige. We can't gainsay that the sheep species too are standing on their specified measures and natural requirements. So as the families, species and creatures have their genealogical columns, likewise "the good and bad" have no exception in this regard. A "Good" also has a family or a tree, and when this tree is established, it has the ramification process of countless branches, flowers and leaves and all these become so extensive that a tree turns to be a Luxuriant shadow for its family, race and progeny. 132

More often we attach no importance to a certain misdeed, but this tiny and ostensibly trivial misdeed develops a seed and turns a lofty tree to the chagrin of all its species due to its thorns, ugly-looking flowers, black, dry and rough leaves and the fad and withered branches. Then this chagrin, through qualm of conscience, gives berth to such a fatal range of diseases that prove unavoidable or indomitable to the man despite all his defensive outworks. We want not to ignore the reality and to adopt the thinking habit, than it is absolutely necessary for us to know that all the phases of "good and bad" are alive and mobile like all the members of a family. Hence you can presage that the tree of good showers the blessing and boom while the tree of misdeed causes for mankind all sorts of fear, scare, trouble and grief. Every person is well cognizant of the fact that the members of the family occupy a pretty position as long as live with mutual understanding and sentimental solidarity. They enjoy a collective voice and a collective 133

force. If the sticks of a sweeper is disjointed, and a particular object is hit by every individual stick, it will prove of no account though the number of sticks may rise to thousands. On the contrary, if we hit some one by a joint and strongly-tied up sweeper, it may leave the body of target darkish-blue. Therefore, The Quran invites our attention towards our unity and integrity, and directs us as one family, one nation and one gigantic tree to come forth untidily and tighten our grip over the rope of Allah and end their divisibility. This Quranic guidance requires us in a very articulate words to get united on one platform regardless of our juristic schools, and to mop up our differences by holding, with a collective spirit, the rope of Allah in sheer accordance with Quranic guidance, but what a deplorable pity that we face. Our grim tragedy is that we unfortunately are not of an unanimous approach to Quran in the term of its exegesis. Only one verse has several explanatory adages, contradicting each other. So it is beyond the 134

capacity of a layman to take a decisive stand by going through commentaries as the commentators have no criteria to single out the true exegesis from the dud one. This feature resulted in the in thensification of the difference which to-day has caught whole nation while previously it was restricted to a handful of persons. When we search out our predecessors' era and the conditions prevalent there, we find out, with no iota of doubt, that they maintained their unity and did not face any difficulty in the perception of Quranic Terse expressions and delicate secrets. When the collective spirits of Muslims ceased to exist, and the tree of misdeed occupied the place of tree of good, they were badly divided in so many hands and faction, and got devoid of all Quranic gems and Divine benedictions. Allah very categorically says: "Hold the rope of Allah firmly and be not disjoined". It goes without saying that all the Universe, in addition to the mankind, is the creature of 135

Allah. Likewise, the children of a mother, numbering, say, to seven, or nine, or twelve, may broadly termed as her creature, and no mother likes her children fight each other, but her maternal instinct demands them for holding their maternal rope and be united so that the central gravity of the mother may not come to an end. Figuratively a mother may be likened to Allah the divinity of Allah, His love and affection towards the mankind, all these require that all the human being, being members of the human race, should live happily as the happiness of the creature is undoubtedly the happiness of Allah, the Lord of Universes.

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is a common sight that when we disseminate the seeds of a particular tree or plant in the earth, it ejects them from inside. This tree or plant has two separate delicate layers on its tiny branch. It shows that the seed, sowed by us, splits into two parts, which stick to the branch. When the root becomes firm, these two layers fall down, and a new sprout emanates there. This progress goes a long way until that tiny seed turns a towering tree and stands a perennial source of provision and nourishment. Have we ever allowed our mind some room to think that the belly of mother has no Fructious tree or full fledged pantry. Despite this minus point, the child continues to be nurtured and progressive, in some appreciable balance, within the dark dungeon of mother's belly with the passage of seconds, minutes. hours, days and months, pursuant to some rules and regulations, as soon as he opens his eyes in this world, he finds two effervescent fountains, brimming with pure milk, to 137

secure his nutritional requirements. When the infant proceeds two steps ahead in attaining nutritional self-reliance, those two gushing fountains turn dried up, and the mother, who was earnestly willing to keep her infant abreast to milk him, now resorts to a break-through in his nutritional device. At this juncture, Allah, who is more benevolent than seventy mothers, for the solace of the mother, appoints the earth as mother, and this new mother provides him all the things to which he is badly needed. Now we should think what is the secret behind all these, and why the nature is so liberally engaged with our provision? Because the nature wants us to ponder over the cosmic paragons and lead a pious life for the piety is the best craft of the nature, and the desire of Allah is that his craft should remain unblemished and impeccable. He says in the Surah of Younus. "For the benefactors there is best reward and supererogatory, Neither black dust nor ignominy mar their faces. They are the sole proprietors of the paradise where they shall be living for good". 138

"And the perpetrators of misdeeds, single misdeed will be requited with the like thereof, and the ignominy marks them. They have no savior from Allah as if their faces were painted with dark spots of the night. They are the occupants of the Hell where they shall be living for good". The piety of a bondsman is to identify his Lord, and those who are bereft of the cognizance of their Lord, are badly unfortunate. The cognizance of the Lord depends upon cognizance of one self, and the cognizance of one self is to discern the Divine light, latent in all the animates.

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you lend your ears to those commandments, enjoined by me to-day and abide by them. your Lord shall keep you dominant over all the folks of the world, and all the blessings will be heading towards you. You shall remain auspicious in the town and auspicious in the field too. You will remain auspicious while making your entry in the house and you will remain auspicious while making your exit from the house too. Your enemies shall be heinously vanquished in front of you. They shall launch their attack in one way and shall run away in seven ways. Your fruits shall have bumper harvest, and his Pure treasures will be kept under your disposal. The Sky shall rain upon you without any procrastination. You shall lend to others and shall not borrow. But, on the contrary, if you do not lend your ears to the commandments of your Lord, contravening them, you shall be hit by all His curses. You shall remain cursed in the town and cursed in the field too. You shall remain cursed while making your entry and 140

exit from the house. You shall receive from the Allah the curse, the confusion and the wrath until you perish. The epidemic shall remain concomitant to you. Tuberculosis, Pyorrhea, allergy, inflammation, drought and simian shall strike you from Allah. Your sky shall be of copper and your earth shall be of iron. The sky shall pour upon you the dust and soil instead of rain. You shall launch attack on your enemies in one way and run away in seven ways. Allah shall hit you with frenzy, blindness and scare and you shall remain groping in broad day-light as a night blind gropes in the darkness. Your sons and daughters shall be captured by others before your eyes and shall undergo all strains, waiting for them. Your hands shall be of no use, and the fruits of your drudgery shall be consumed by some align community" (Bible). You can't bring forth any example for that a tyrant remained not retaliated for his despotism sooner or later. This fact also may not be gainsaid that a wicked or fornicator is always miles away from mental peace and tranquillity. The Law of Retaliation or 141

Requital provides very imperatively for that a man can't breath his last to bid adieu to this picturesque world unless and until he pays the penance against the sin, he has perpetrated. This pretension is highly impossible from any quarter that the treachery and embezzlement have added some new dimensions to his joy and delight. Can any body get rid of the disease, complication and confusion after having consumed some putrid and rotten meal. Can a man, preferring a heinous and shrewd life, be expected to record, in his programs and projects, a success that may be interpreted as a true, grand and everlasting success? No doubt, all these questionnaires provide with only one verdict i.e. the good deed always leads to a good consequence and the bad one always causes the bad outcome. At this crucial point, we have to admit reluctantly or irreluctantly this maxim that the human salvation lies in good deeds, and that the misdeeds are always conducive to disaster. This is the law of social and collective life. In case, a society is collectively immersed in the brook of ill-deeds, they have to face a collective and total disaster. It is no more an 142

undecoded secret that Muslims, as a nation, are leading a backward life to a shocking extent. Yesterday they were dictating the world but today every thing has gone topsyturvy for them as they are looking for their livelihood at those who were living at their financial mercy. All the Holy scriptures and all the Messengers of Allah have spoken out very conspicuously to the Mankind that the veracity, rectitude and admittance of the fact are the pinnacle of the human life. When a nation arrives at this pinnacle, their hearts feel quiet and calm. The cardiac quietude is such a condition, the availability of which is responsible for the emanation of billions of cells, dormant in the human body. It is very fantastic to note that the creative faculties of a nation become operational proportionate to the emanation of their dormant cells. You will be highly surprised to identify these faculties. Yes, these faculties are not other than the Divine Traits and attributes from which you can decode this message that Allah has granted the man a sovereign authority over the earth and sky, and that 143

His low is beyond any iota of doubt, and that the nations in whom the qualifications, granted by Allah, (which also may be termed as the human talents), emanate, they Govern the every nook and corner of the world. On the contrast, a nation, not employing these talents, are physically and mentally yoked to others. This era has been witnessing a nation pentup under the yokes of subjection, captivity and dishonor. This is because the Divine Law prevailed over them. This law very categorically provides that those energetic and enthusiastic nations, in whose veins the blood of life keeps rushing tumultuously, and who are fully engaged in exploiting those resources, bestowed by Allah for their interests, are the absolute Rulers. On the contrast, a nation who is disintegrated, disunited, paranoiac, brandishing a heinous ingratitude towards the bounties of Allah, is strife torn and bereft of every thing. If so, Let us take the stock of ourselves and analyze our own life so as to decide whether

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pensive peregrination in Quranic teachings leads us to the luminous vestibules of the fact that the life-sketch may not be chalked out or designed in a correct way unless we follow the tracks of our Prophet (P.B.U.H), particularly a Muslim is unable to manage his life on a positively correct line unless he gets himself meticulously acquainted with the meanings of Quranic verses and fully committed to the ordains of Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H) all over his life. The Holy Quran describes two ways for Muslim's submission to Allah and his submission to His Prophet (P.B.U.H). The submission to Allah some times has been coupled with submission to His Prophet (P.B.U.H), and some times only the mention of submission to prophet (P.B.U.H) has been made.

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The following verses show you that the obedience of Allah and the obedience of His Prophet are going side by side in obligation: "Say: Obey Allah and the Prophet, and if they turn back, then Allah does not love the disbelievers". "O Believers! Obey Allah and obey the Prophet and your executive authorities, and if you have dispute around any issue, refer it to Allah and the Prophet if you believe in Allah and the Last Day". "O Believers' Obey Allah and His Prophet and don't turn away from him while you are hearing". "And Obey Allah and His Prophet and don't fall in mutual controversy lest you falter and your prestige diminishes off". "O Believers' Obey Allah and obey the Prophet and don't undo your work". "And obey Allah and His Prophet and Allah is cognizant of what you do". 147

"And Obey Allah and Obey the Prophet, and if you turn back, then our Prophet is responsible only for the unequivocal communication". These are the verses where the obedience of Allah and the obedience of His Prophet are interlinked and both are construed equally obligatory. In other words, as the, obedience of Allah, the creator of the universe, is peremptorily incumbent, on the same line, the obedience of His Prophet whom He sent to all the Human Being, is equally incumbent. Now to you are those verses which designated the obedience of the Prophet (P.B.U.H) as the base and foundation of the religion: "One who obeys the Prophet, verily obeys Allah". "We have not sent any messenger but to be obeyed by the order of Allah".

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"Say: if you love Allah, then follow me (so that) Allah may love you and forgive for you your sins and Allah is forgiver and benevolent". "Those who go against his order, should beware of being prone to some turmoil or the rigorous torment". "So nay, by your Lord, they will not be regarded as believers until they concede to your arbitration in their mutual skirmishes, then they will not feel any pinch for your judgment and will fully acknowledge". The salient points that emanate from the above verses, are as follows: *

The obedience of the Prophet (P.B.U.H) is the main constituent of the belief and its refusal is equal to disbelief.

The obedience of the Prophet (P.B.U.H) invokes the Divine bliss.

On the eruption of any dispute or division in opinion, the final reference are Allah and His Prophet.

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The requisite of the belief will not redeemed unless the bondsman hankers after the obedience of the Prophet (P.B.U.H)

There is no demarcation line between the obedience of Allah and the obedience of the Prophet (P.B.U.H).

Allah has not sent any messenger to the mankind but only for that they follow him.

The Love from Allah is gettable only through the obedience of His Prophet (P.B.U.H). Those who are busy with the contravention of Prophet's precepts, they should fear the Divine wrath.

The belief remains incomplete until the orders and precepts of Prophet (P.B.U.H) are not ingenuously complied with.

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Allah is undoubtedly the Lord of Universe. He is their protector and provider of all their requirements. Therefore when we deal with commoners politely and support them to come out of their ticklish problems, we are fully entitled to the pleasure of Allah. The Holy Quran has declared the Divine Rights concomitant to the Human Rights and has laid a good deal of emphasis thereon. The Human Rights are to begin with the relatives, foremost among them are the parents. So their service and obedience are one's prime duty. The Human Rights also include to provide the progeny with fairgotten earnings and equip them with fine education and training. Then comes the turn of other relatives and neighbours, than all human family. The Human Rights incorporate the financial and moral duties too. The demarcation lines for these rights or duties have been drawn very elucidatively in the Quran and they 151

have been designated a part and parcel of Islam. Allah says: "It is not righteousness that you turn your face to the East and the West, but the righteous is one who believe in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the writ and the Prophets, and (who) spent his wealth, though he was lusting after it, to the relatives, orphans, needy, aligns and beggars and in emancipation of slaves". If we are not in a position to extend financial help to some one, there are so many substitutes thereof. Allah has conferred on us so multifarious capabilities that may be exploited to some common interests. A tip of sincere advice to some one is the basic religious sentiment. If we are unable to shower the flowers on someone, we should refrain at least from sowing his track with pointed thorns. To be a well-wisher does not require the mere financial stability, but to receive some one with courtesy, to take initiative in saluting, to shun the slanderous talks and hearings, to attach good expectations to the creature of Allah, to do 152

the handy works of others, to cross the road with some weak or sick person, to visit the patients and to remove any lethal or teasing objects from public path are counted in the category of Human Rights.

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to a tradition, narrated from Prophet (P.B.U.H) the contemplation of Just a moment regarding the Universe is better than the service of one year (and according to some other traditionalists: Sixty Years). Therefore, those who went deep into the elements of the Universe, or say: into the creation of the humans of the Universe, they were blessed with unprecedented success, and those, on the contrary, who swerved from the line of Profuse thinking, they were categorized in dead and bygone nations. The significance of contemplation regarding the Genesis of Universe may be appreciated through this fact that the Holy Quran invites the attention of the mankind repeatedly towards the said contemplation, and that all the things, created by Allah the earth and skies. are not for a mere exhibition, but even a smallest particle of the universe is indicative of a particular Divine interest or sapience. 154

The Holy Quran contains (726) such contexts which exhort the intelligentsia of mankind to study the universe. Our tragedy is that we concentrated all our attention upon the acknowledgment of monotheism, observation of the fast and offering the prayers, payment of the religious tax (Zakath) and performance of pilgrimage, and the other sensitive matters, incorporated in the Holy Quran, were left by us untackled, and no proper importance was attached to the saying of the Prophet (P.B.U.H) that the contemplation of a moment regarding the universe was better than the service of one year, but quite unfortunately we are adamant not to unleash the reins of thoughts. Allah, in the Surah of "the Cow", says: "Of course, the creation of the skies and the earth and alternation of night and day, and the ships which sail over the sea to benefit the mankind, and the water, which Allah poured down from the sky and resuscitated thereby the earth after it was dead, and dispersed all kinds of beast thereon, and the mobilization of the winds and clouds, 155

hanging between the sky and earth, have many tokens for those who are wise". And in the Surah of "Family of IMRAN" He says: "Of course, the creation of the skies and the earth and alternation of night and day have many tokens for men of wisdom, who mention Allah while they are standing and sitting and leaning on their beds and contemplate on the creation of skies and earth (saying:) our Lord: you have not created this in vain. Glory be to you: protect us from the torment of the fire". And in the Surah of Romans, He Says: "And among His tokens is the creation of skies and the earth and the diversity of your languages and colours. Verily this bears portents for the knowledgeable". In the Surah of Yousuf, He says in a warning tone:

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"How many portents are in the skies and the earth which they pass by while they are indifferent to them". And in the Surah of Saba, He directs an open threat to these negligent: "Have they not seen What is before them and what is behind them of the sky and the earth. It is to our direction to hurry them by landslide or to pour down upon them some fragments from the sky. This has undoubtedly a portent for every obsequious bondsman". This warning has come in a clearer form in the Surah of "AARAF" (Heights) where Allah says: "Have they not seen in the dominion of the skies and the earth and in every thing, created by Allah and that their turn may have reared". We beat, round the clock, a drum of this pretension that we are Muslims, destined to the heritage of the paradise, and that we are the catchment areas of the torrential rains of Divine blessing, and that our lockers are 157

thronged with the rewards, while the fact is quite inverse because we, as a nation, are bereft of everything. We claim vociferously that we believe in Quran, and do not allow our minds to think what is the criteria of Belief in view of Quran? Quran unequivocally directs us that there are so many facts and portents in the earth and skies for the believers. This means that the hallmark of a believer is that he carries on an in-depth study of the realities of the earth and skies and the creational equations therein and their meticulous observation unmasks the system of Galaxies. Quran repeatedly declares that these portents do belong to those who believe. It implies that these portents, though they are common, but to consider their properties and craftsmanship is the sheer share of the believers only, and those common populace who are wrapped up in the abyssal ignorance and adamant obduracy. making their life in animal fashion, not lending their ears to any advise, they are quite unable to capitalize on these portents so their existence 158

and non-existence are equal to pugnacious and bellicose persons.

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A person, blind by birth, may not enjoy the beauty and picturesque greenery of a park. Likewise, those who remain devoid of sight and discernment, are unable to perceive the natural panoramic views. Therefore Quran declares in very explicit words: "Say: "We are Muslims" and as far as "Belief" is concerned, it has not made its way to your hearts".

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The cohesive efforts to deracinate the evils and to encourage the virtues, are responsible for our existence, and any dereliction of duty in this regards is clearly synonymous to our total disaster. Allah says: "You are the best nation, brought forth to the mankind, you enjoin the decent deed and dissuade to do indecencies and believe in Allah". But at this juncture, we should take a strict note of ourselves whether we, knowingly or inadvertently, are following the same precarious track, we are dissuading others to walk on, and alarming them against the dire consequences, in case that track is followed. This double standard has been thrashed by Allah where He says: "Do you enjoin others to do good Job and forget yourselves". "Why you utter such a thing that is not translated by you to the realm of practice"? 160

Our call-campaign to Allah shall not bear a tremendous impact until we set ourselves a paragon for the same cause and establish our rapport with Allah on par with the rapport of a slave with his master, such a rapport may be established in compliance with the following guide-lines, provided to our Prophet (P.B.U.H). "O the Raiment clad! offer the service in night save a little part thereof. A half portion thereof or abate a little portion thereof, or add thereto and recite the Quran methodically. Soon we pass on you a heavy order". Here "the night service-offering" means that the bondsman should be close to Allah and be related to Him so dedicatedly that all his actions are integratedly attached to Allah, this being a cardinal factor for the cognizance of Allah. It goes without saying that when a bondsman is exclusively related to Allah, he is emancipated from the yokes of omniferous fears and hazards, and showered by His choicest blessings, and turns to be a 161

semblance of tranquillity and selfcontentment, and when he negotiates some one or invites some one to a particular thing, the conscientious persons and happy souls responds to him buxomly.

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the resurrection Day, Allah shall announce: Where are those who befriend each other for my sake. I shall accommodate them under my shadow. The enviable position, enjoyed by such people on Resurrection Day, has been very Tersely depicted by our Prophet (P.B.U.H) as he says: Among the bondsmen of Allah are those who are enviable to the Prophets and martyrs. He was questioned: Who are they O Prophet of Allah? He answered: They are those people who befriend each other for the sake of Allah, not for the sake of money or hereditary pride. They remain unscared when others are scared of, and they will not be caught by grief when others are scared of, and they will not be caught by grief when others are grieved. Then prophet (P.B.U.H) recited the following verse: "Verily the friends of Allah shall not have any fear and shall not grieve". 163

While going to select a friend, you should keep in your mind the "Moral Geography" of the person with whom you have to establish the friendly relation because when you are closely associated with someone, it is quite natural that their tendencies and ideas shall encroach upon your mind. Therefore, you should be very particular in establishing your friendly relation and it should be restricted to those whose tastes, thoughts and concepts and life hustles and bustles strictly conform to the Prophet's "NICE PRECEPTS". Allah glorifies the true friendship where He says: "Verily the male believers and female believers are mutually friends and co-operatives to each other". Pin your trust in your friends. Don't embarrass them and be among them cheerful not sombrous. Lay the foundation of your friendship on sincerity, love and Divine pleasure, not on the exploitation of 164

your personal biased interests, and adopt such germane manners that your friend may feel proud of you and gleeful of your company.

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Since the very beginning, the man has been pretending that all his gains and achievements are the direct results of his own capabilities and his sturdy muscles. As such, he is the sole proprietor of his wealth, and he is the only authority to disburse it according to his will and volition, and none is allowed to poke his nose in his private affairs. Quran very truly has projected "QAROON" as a representative of such despotic and devilish ideology of capitalism and has quoted him as saying: "What I have earned is due to my professional knowledge". The penetration of this ideology on collective and individual levels is mainly caused by the capitalist mentality. The man has been lusting after the wealth and luxuries and has remained obsessed with the idea of salting away the money because he has designated as his life's cardinal objective to raise the exorbitant monetary balance by hook or crook, so he runs unleashed after the 166

accretion of the wealth since the age of his maturity till the throes of his demise. Allah depicts this mammonism with the following glib words: "The accumulation race distracted you (from the path of Allah ) till you visited the cemeteries". The craze for wealth, in the individual limits, sticks like a leach, to the ego and entity of the man and remains licking out his human traits and rusting the talents, conferred on him by Allah, and the human interior begins to nurture a Satanic chaos. As the time goes ticking by, this chaos applies a firm grip over that man who eventually pays out his overall creative faculties for the procurement and protection of his wealth. It may not be gainsaid that when a mammonish epidemic is rampant in the society, the honorable members of the society turn CANNIBALS to each other. These ferocious cannibals in human skins seize every single opportunity to hunt their opponents. They sucked out the blood of down trodden through the imposition of multifarious biased rules and 167

rituals while the Natural Law is starkly against the capitalism and avarice, and it kicks down such a society in the dire precipices of the slavery, subjugation and bankruptcy. Quran strikes hard the premier pretension of the capitalists that their earning is the direct outcome of their professional dexterity. Quran unequivocally refutes the idea that the obtainment of the provisions is linked with the muscle power, but on the contrary, it is the nature and natural resources that fetch you very systematically and regularly all that you need. So we observe every now and then that the water goes up from the sea to the sky in the shape of vapors and pours down on the earth and revivifies its dormant capabilities to be resourceful and productive. The earth, by its multifarious products, nurtures the man and fetches him all his life sustenance. Meanwhile the Solar Rays, together with many other factors, play an active part to cultivate the harvests and render their service to the man in-gratis, confining the job of the man, in connection of the procurement of the provision and 168

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man in this world has to rise to the vicissitudes of the time, occasionally he is beaten by agony, grief and distress, and than he is greeted by gaiety and success. Some times he concedes heavy losses of life and property and some times gets enormous profits. These ebbs and tides of the life introduce frequently certain radical changes in the emotions and thoughts of the man. When he is hit by the strives, he is found moribund due to quick succession of agony, grief and preoccupation, and remains overpowered by the pessimism and inferiority complex. Lured by his emotional upheavals, he passes hectic remarks on the natural laws while he is starkly inconversant with these laws. On the contrary, when Allah opens on him the broad vistas of weal and prosperity and he gets his full share of the pleasure, he gives full marks to his muscle power and crushes all the barriers, ebrued of the wealth, he was destined to. 170

As far as the view point of Believer is concerned, it remains unchanged both in weal and woe. He has the guts to rise to the occasion so he is not demoralized, but remains thankful to Allah because he is wellacquainted with the fact that the time of joy is naturally, replaced by the counter time. So he, during that acid test, does not swerve from the path of strenuous work and fighting spirit, but his life turns a symbol of incessant diligence and drudgery and augmented enthusiasm and zeal. The same mentality was adopted by the Messengers of Allah (A.S) that they reposed their confidence into Allah and stood firm and adamant in all the trial hours with a deep sense of gratitude. Never a single word of complaint crossed their lips. The Holy Quran has presented Ayub (A.S) as an excellent symbol of total attachment to Allah and abiding belief in Him and invincibility to the vicissitudes, and in contrast to him, Suleman (A.S) was presented as the facet of exorbitant wealth, gratitude for the prosperity and attachment to the humility, simplicity and Generosity. 171

These are the Holy Bondsmen of Allah who are being hailed by the Quran in the following glib method: "We shall put you in the slight trial of fear, hunger and loss of wealth, lives, and fruits. And greet the stead fast who say when they are stricken with some misery: verily we are for Allah and verily we are to return to him alone. Those have blessing form their Lord and mercy and those are rightly guided". "Whatever misfortune befalls in the earth or in yourselves is contained in the Book before we bring it forth. Verily it is easy for Allah lest you grieve for the chance, eluded you".

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The hallmark of the selected bondsmen of Allah, as described in the Holy Quran, is that they do not resort to their beds, and that they pass their nights in divine devotion, praying to Allah to hold them firmly on the straight path and bestow upon them His bliss, and to do the same, our Prophet (P.B.U.H) was addressed by Allah in the Holy Quran: "O the raiment-clad! Offer the service in night save a little part thereof a half portion thereof or abate a little portion thereof. Or add thereto and recite the Quran methodically. Soon we pass on you a heavy order". The benifitional outcome of this nightservice has been pointed out by Allah Himself: "The night vigil is more impressive and more suitable for recital". In the light of these Divine directives, our Prophet (P.B.U.H) was used to retire to the 173

bed in the early hours of the night and to stipulate the late hours for service to Allah. These are the best timings for sleep and service. To wake till late night in the common circumstances and to compensate it by deep or scanty dozes during day hours causes hypertension. The Natural law has allotted very wisely the first portion of the night for total relief and retirement, and the late hours for prayer and meditation, and day hours for livelihood and other avocations. Allah says: "We did your sleep a repose and did the night a cover, and did the day a strife for livelihood". You should observe a high equanimity in sleep and wake. It means that you should not lengthen your sleep to such a precarious point where your body is badly hit by lassitude and lethargy and the vital brain functions come to stand still, and that you should not sleep so sporadically that your mental strain remains un-alleviated. It is narrated by Abdullah Bin Amr that the Prophet (P.B.U.H) asked him I have come to 174

know that in the day you observe fast and in the night you remain offering prayers? Don't do such as your body has some rights with you, and your eyes have some rights with you, and your wife has some rights with you. Some narrations addition:

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"So you should observe fast and break fast too, and you should offer prayer in night and sleep too". Allah says: "Have they not seen that we appointed the night to provide with relief and the day with light. It carries the indicatives to those who believe". Before going to bed, the Prophet (P.B.U.H. ) used to perform ablution and before leaning his back to the bed, he used to recite a portion of the Holy Quran, and more often he was chanting the following prayer: "With your name, O Allah, I have kept my back and with your name I shall take it up. O Allah if 175

you hold my soul please pardon it, and if you release it please protect it with what you protect the righteous bondsmen". Some times he (P.B.U.H) was chanting the prayer: "All praise be to Allah who fetched us the food and drink, and took our burdens and provided us with shelter while there are so many persons who remain support less and shelter-less". Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) used to eschew a very comfortable soft and posh bed. His bed was of a leather, filled with the palm fibers. Some narrations by Ummul Momineen Hafsa indicate that his bed was a coarse folded rug, floored beneath him. Some times he was sleeping on the mat. He never used any expensive and soft object for his dormitory or for relief. It is narrated by Abdullah Bin Masood that once Prophet (P.B.U.H.) lay down on the mat which turned his skin streaky. When he got up, I began wiping out those streaks and told O Prophet of Allah! please allow us to floor some thing extra on this mat to shun these 176

streaks. The Prophet (P.B.U.H) replied very calmly: I have nothing to do with this world: I have nothing to do with this world: My stand to this world is just like a rider, stayed for some while under the shadow of a tree, then left it to his destination. In a narration by Omer (R.A), Prophet's comment has come as follows: "O Omer: Are you not pleased with that they enjoy the world and we enjoy the life hereafter?". Before sleeping, the Prophet (P.B.U.H) was keeping every necessary thing beneath his pillow, and it was his order to take the stock of every thing before going to bed, to all kitchen utensils and to put off the fire if any. While retiring to bed, the Prophet (P.B.U.H) was bringing both his hands close together, as they are positioned in the prayer, and was reciting the last three Suras of the Holy Quran and was blowing his hands with these prayers and then passing his hands on his body trice wherever they reached. To lie down on the right side, keeping his hand 177

under the right cheek, was preferable to him (P.B.U.H). He (P.B.U.H) also used to dust off his bed before retiring to it. By the late hours of night, he was getting up to engage himself in the prayers. Some times he was getting up prior to his scheduled time, and sometimes he was remaining vigilant throughout the night.

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is the duty of a Muslim to bedeck his family with Islamic manners and to try his level best to get them on the correct line so that they may stand a paragon in the society. The boys may obtain full marks for the development of the country and community and the girls may be happy wives and fortunate mothers, creating in the house such blissful melee that may secure welfare, equality and bright future for mankind. The Holy Quran says very emphatically: "Enjoin upon your family members for worship and be persistent therein". And likewise it is the duty of the wives to be totally submissive to their husbands, because this submission is a harbinger for all the glee and gratitude, because this is the commandment of Allah and whichever wife complies with His Commandment, He is pleased with her. This is the essence of the Divine directives and the intelligent formula to keep the conjugal life pleasant and gay. Allah says: 179

"So good wives are obedient". So the husbands should not dictate their wives illegally, and should cater to their needs open-heartedly and not trouble them. To undergo all the life travails for the accomplishment of the wives' rights is an extremely sacred job. To discharge this duty in a better way not invokes only the conjugal blessings, but also enables an ingenuous and gregarious husband to secure the rich dividends on the Final Day. You can appreciate the importance of a wife through this fact that she is a true manifestation of the attribute of Allah as "The best creator". Allah, unequivocally, has guided us to go with them politely, where He says: "And behave With them kindly". He also said: "They are the raiment for you and you are the raiment for them".

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SELF-IDENTIFICATION

He has chosen you and has not implicated you,

with religious viewpoint, in any inconvenience. It is the creed of your father Abraham. He had designated you as Muslims before. And in this regard, the Prophet must be witness for you and you must be witnesses for the mankind". As long as we are Muslims, we have to act as the viceroys of Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H) in the world, and as such we have supposed to do what was done by the Prophet (P.B.U.H). So as the Prophet (P.B.U.H) campaigned, with all gusto and brio, to propagate the Islam and elucidate the way to Islam, likewise, we too should take all the pains and strains to bring Islam before the eyes and ears of all the humanity so as to join us, shoulder to shoulder, to serve the real cause of Allah Almighty. It goes without saying that the cardinal objective, living behind the Genesis, was that the Humans and Demons may identify their Lord via their self-identification.

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Those who have achieved self-identification and have stepped towards the identification of their Lord, then rests on their shoulders the responsibility of calling mankind to step forward on the track which has been dubbed, in Quranic parlance, the "Straight path". the path of those upon whom Allah has showered His blessings and has opened in their face the flood-gates of erudition and cognizance. In order to popularize this call, you should strictly adhere to some principles and maxims, epitomized as follows: Don't lose the sight of your real status and avoid self manifestation and arrogance. Beefup your efforts and don't giveup hope. Render your genuine services to the creature of Allah. Dedicate, but sacrifice, your life for the goal. As a matter of fact, Allah has so proudly dubbed you "The Best Nation" only because you accomplish these jobs.

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Your affectionate approach to the puritans and spiritualists shall lead you closer to selfidentification. But who are they? They are those persons who love each other for the sake of Allah, and the love is undoubtedly salvation of the man in the life hereafter. Fury, antipathy, split, feud and rancor are the distinguishing marks of that fallacious Mission which remains a target of Divine wrath. In addition to it, this mission advocates for arrogance, pugnacity, and personal obduracy and egoism. These qualities contain all the factors that keep a person away from Allah, and thicken the gloom of his life, and engulf him with all the bitter travails to such an extent that the afflicted person derogates himself from his own eyes. Despite all the worldly luxuries, his heart develops such malignant tumors, the putridity of which puts an end to the fluorescent lights, latent in his soul. Then this malady becomes chronic, these lights retreat back, and his heart and ear, according to Quranic parlance, are sealed and his eyesight is curtailed by a thick curtain. This misfortune not only keeps him at bay from 184

all the peace and quietude in this world, but makes him also bereft of the final salvation and recognition of the truth. Our prophet (P.B.U.H) says in a long tradition: "On dooms day some bondsmen of Allah shall emanate from their graves while their faces will be shining. They will be seated on the platforms of the pearls. Their status will be coveted for. They will be neither prophets nor martyrs. One rustic questioned: O Prophet of Allah who are they? Please tell us their identity. The prophet answered: They are the persons who love each other in the way of Allah". The tradition which describes that the Prophet (P.B.U.H) visited his Lord one night in the ever best shape, teaches us this prayer: "O Allah I ask you to adopt virtues and shun the indecencies and love the poorer, to pardon me and commiserate me. When you want trial of your bondsman. I ask you to call me to you unruffled. I ask your Love and the Love of those who love you, and the love of such work which makes me closer to you".

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Start your preaching campaign right from your own house. In case, your life partner in the house is well equipped, like you, with religions and spiritual knowledge, you both can bring your children on a best line. The primary school of the child is the lap of the parents. If you are both well furnished with Islamic Morals, naturally your house shall turn to be the first school imparting all necessary education and training to your children. The husband can't close his eyes from fetching his family members all their requirements and likewise the wife can't gainsay this fact that it is her duty to keep the conjugal relation as pleasant as possible, and it is their bilateral duty to consort and please each other by all their disposals and attitudes. This is the high secret behind a successful marital life and also an easy way to please Allah Almighty. Don't indulge in the abortion of your children. All the prenatal or postnatal 186

abortive attempts are considered the worst callousness, most drastic atrocity, the peak of cowardice, and sheer disaster in both the worlds. You are advised to blow a pregnant in throe with Ayatul Kursi, 54th and 55th verses of Araf Surah, and Al-Falaq Surah and Al-Nass Surah, and when the delivery is over, administer the call prayer in the right ear of the infant and the second prayer call in his left ear. Then request one pious man or woman to masticate a date to be applied on the fontanel of the infant, and to pray for him welfare and betterment, and on the seventh day, sacrifice the goats to mark the week-end celebration. Don't intimidate the boys because if their minds harbour any fear or horror in the early stages of the age, it shall continue to stick to their psychology even when they get matured, and such scared boy become unable throughout their life tenure, to bring any laurel to their crown. To keep the children regularly under cystic reproach and monotonous watch is a blatant error, because such an attitude has negative 187

bearings on the overall development of the children. Your strict behavior is regarded by them as daily routine. You should not be oblivious of the fact that the children generally are embecile. In the place of a severe reaction to their shortcomings, you should recall your own period of childhood and the lapses, perpetrated by you during that period. Please tackle them tactfully with high sobriety and tolerance in lieu of indignation, and give them such an impression that you are sympathetic towards them, then pass your hand their head complaisantly so that the stream of submission and obedience may spring out their hearts.

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THE FASTING

Fasting

is such a prayer which has no substitute. Its enormous benefits and endless bearings may not be covered even in thousands of folios. In brief, the fasting is the panacea for all physical maladies and the effective stimulator of spiritual values, and the invincible castle against the evils. The fast observant shall make their entry into the paradise through a special Inlet, called "Rayyan Gateway". The fast shall come on Dooms Day as an Intercessor for those who had welcomed it with all respects and regards. Fasting actually refines the body from all the impurities and expedites the influx of gleamy lights in the man. This influx accelerates his phrenology to such an extent that the angels appear to his bare to his eyes and he finds his soul hovering around the unseen world. Fasting is the prayer which has been prescribed unexceptionably for the followers of all the Messengers, as Allah says in the Holy Quran: 189

"O Believers: Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those, prior to you, perchance you fear (Allah)". The pious persons have been defined by Allah as those who have credence in unseen. The credence in unseen, in spiritual parlance, is that invisible may turn visible because the visual observation is complementary to the credence, and fasting leads the bondsman to such a venue where invisible becomes a credence and belief.

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absolute authority over all the materialistic and spiritual creatures is Allah alone. We incessantly observe the Divine law in the materialistic objects while in the context of spiritual things we require some remination and contemplation, beyond the reach of senses. Spiritually, when our feeling moves, under the hegemony of the wisdom and consciousness, the reality of this universe becomes an open secret for the man. The clairvoyance, or discernment. goes functional first of all human senses. As such, we first observe this universe, and the observation, in its turn, invites the man to ponder over, and thence the human thinking takes a new turn. All that is brought in by the creator of the universe is matchless. If you go on thinking in every cosmic object right from the grey earth to the blue sky, you will be eventually led to the fact that only one law is prevalent 191

in solo-entity of Allah, the one, the law being interpreted as the Bondsman ship. This vast land somewhere has souring mountains with ice studded peaks, and somewhere the greenaries with the trees, laden with fruits and flowers, while some parts are the around tropics where you shall find nothing save the sandy turfs. This whole world has never seen such a painter or scenario writer who opted to propound a quite virgin idea other than these panoramic views of this universe. This provides an ample evidence that the charming views on the universal canvas do not create even the slightest monotony to the viewers. These views exude that fragrance of bondsman ship which is latent in human nature from the very existence of this world. Allah covers all from the earth to the sky. In Quranic parlance, his chair has encircled all the skies and earth. This is why all the things right from the humans to all the animates, botanical plants and minerals are busy in chanting His Hymn as it has been very 192

explicitly mentioned in the Suras of Anbia, Saba and Sad : "We have subjected for Dawood the mountains and birds to chant His hymn and we were to do so". "We conferred on Dawood our grace, (We ordered) O "Mountains and birds: be chorister with him". "We subjected for him the mountains, chanting His hymn at dusk and dawn, and the birds in herds. They all glorify with him". A deep study in these verses unmasks to us the fact that all the animals, birds and mountains chant His hymn through their mute expressions, as if the existence and setup of every thing witnessed that Allah alone was the creator. and that what we name as "glorification and Exaltation of Allah". Allah Says in one more place of the Holy Quran i.e. Surah Bani Israel:

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"The seven skies, the earth, inclusive of their occupants, do chant His hymn. and if there is any thing, it chants His hymn, but you do not comprehend their hymn". In these verses, the two significant points invite our attention. First that every thing in the universe chant His hymn. Second that the same is beyond the comprehension of the humans and jinn. Allah has described His glorification to every thing, available in this universe, inclusive of animals, plants and inorganic bodies. The second paragraph is applicable theme that the glorification. supra, is beyond the comprehension of the humans and jinn. Here are only the humans who are caught by this perversity of the polytheism, otherwise, everything in this universe is engaged with His glorification. and ward off all sorts of polytheism from Allah but it is a human pity that they do not catch the above glorification.

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The prayer is such a service which may not be substituted by other. Indeed, the prayer is such an action, going through which a man denies his personality and divulges before his Lord all that not likely be divulged even before his closest relatives. There is no iota of doubt that Allah has reserved for Himself unrestricted powers for all the dispensations and disposals. If we ponder over the system, controlling all the happenings of this universe, we can conclude finally that the absolute authority is Allah. As far as the partial authority, enjoyed or spoken of by the man, is concerned, it is too a reflection of the very authority of Allah in the term that He is who conferred on tkle man the ability to exploit that authority. Hence everyone is needy to his creator and there is none who can respond to the call of the bondsmen and accept their prayers. Allah verily says: "O mankind: You are needy to Allah and Allah is needless and benign". In Surah of "Aaraf" Allah says: 195

"Call Him with all religious purities". Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) says in what he narrated from Allah almighty that He said: "O my bondsmen! I have prohibited over me the injustice so you too do not persecute each other: O my bondsmen: all of you have gone astray save those when I beckoned, so you should ask me for the guidance and I shall guide you: O my bondsmen: All of you are suffering from starvation save those whom I fed, so you should ask me for provision and I shall provide you: O my bondsmen: All of you are nude save those whom I clothed, so you should ask me for clothing and I shall cloth you: O my bondsmen: you continue to perpetrate the sins round the clock, and I pardon all the sins, so you should ask me for excuse and I shall excuse:" Therefore, you should ask Allah all the best, and cling to His feet with all the humility 196

and submission while stretching your hands before Allah. The humility means that the heart of the bondsmen is fraught with the dignity of Allah and his head drooped, his eyes brimming with the tears and all his gestures remain indicative of helplessness and contrition, Last but not the least, the prayer should be chanted in a low and sedate accent.

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Divine view, the best and most sacred part of the land is one on which a mosque is constructed. On the most drastic day of resurrection. when there will be no shaded, Allah shall keep under the shadow of His throne the person who would have built a mosque. Keeping in your mind this significance of the mosque, you should maintain and serve the mosque and attach your-self to it. Allah almighty says: "The Mosque of Allah are being populated by those who believe in Allah and the Final Day". Perform the obligatory prayers collectively in the mosque, as the mosque is such an axis around which rotates all the life of a believer. Be seated in the mosque calm and quiet and don't indulge in worldly chats. To talk in the mosque sonorously, to make uproarious scene, to go in loose-talks, to negotiate in business concern, or in such topics that are relevant to worldly impurities, are just akin 198

to the sacrilege and desecration of the mosque. The mosque is such a sacred place which should be strictly restricted to the service of Allah. As the man has some rights due to be fulfilled by others, likewise the mosques too have some rights to be accomplished by the Muslims. The foremost rights are that one should respect the mosque, prostrate there before Allah, maintain the five times prayers, mention Allah to content and pacify the heart and recite the Holy Quran with high respect and regard and in a explicit and articulate accent. It is obligatory on the part of ladies to care for the edification of the mosques on par with the decoration of their own mansions, and do their best to keep up their mental attachment with the mosque, and despatch the considerate boys in the company of elders to the mosque so that it may kindle in the boys the propensity for the obedience of Allah according to one order, given by our prophet (P.B.U.H).

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ALLAH IS ALONE THE OMNISCIENT

Translation of persian quatrain):

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Return back: return back: whichever you are: return back: You may be a disbliever or an idolater, please return back. Our this Abode is not an Abode of disappointment or despondency: If you have violated your repentance hundred times, please return back. TAUBAH or Repentance literally means to return, come back, reunite after separation, and to incline towards Allah with a sense of penitence, Allah who has conferred on us the life and brought up us so benevolently, is considered in the highest joy and ecstasy when He finds His sinful bondsmen clinging to His feet with all the possible expressions of humility, contraption and regard. It is narrated that once some military captives were brought to the Prophet (P.B.U.H). Among them was a woman who had lost her infant. She was so shocked by 200

this unfortunate incident that whenever she came across any child, she stuck him with her breast to milk. When Prophet (P.B.U.H) caught a glance of this woman and her psychological upheaval, he asked his companions: Do you expect that such a woman may throw her baby by her own hands in the precipices of the fire? The companions commented: It is highly impossible. But, on the contrary, if her baby is thrown in the fire, she shall sacrifice her life to rescue her baby. Then the prophet told : "Allah is more benevolent to His bondsmen than this mother to her child". Don't make inordinate delay in repentance if you have happened to commit certain sins. Cling to the feet of Allah and repeatedly seek His pardon with all humility and total surrender, because this repentance acts as purifier to the soul and detergent to the heart. To repent with the high standard of sincerity, veracity and rectitude, maneuvers the life-track of the pennant. It is an ordained duty of a bondsman to redeem the primitive 201

pledge which he concluded with Allah. There is no go for us but to fulfill. Please be vigilant about your physical and spiritual purity and self-rectification. In spite of all your efforts, if you cause infringement to this pledge and commit certain sins, please don't lose your heart in Allah, the most merciful, the most benevolent, but resort once again to the asylum of His mercy and bliss as Allah is not far away from you. He, indeed, is nearer to you than the jugular vein. Where you are one, you are seconded by Allah, and where you are two, the third one is Allah. As such, what you go to commit, it remains no secret to Allah and Allah is fully aware of what you abortively try to conceal. The terminus of all your acts and deeds is to Allah. He is omnipresent, omniscient and absolute authority. Call your Lord obsequiously: O Lord: In-deed, I am too weak and undoubtedly I have tyrannized myself but, I am sure, your mercy can absorb all my sins. O my Lord O the more benevolent to His bondsmen than seventy mothers: commiserate to me and allow me to come under the shelter of your pardon.

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Don't link your penitence to the time of perpetration of sin, as the man is continuously in a need to penitence in view of the lapses that show no sign of abating on his part. Though our prophet (P.B.U.H) was innocent since the very day of his birth, and though he was the most beloved bondsman of Allah, and though he was the intercessor on the judgment Day, and though he was a bliss for all the world, he used to repeat the penitence for more than seventy or hundred times daily. The following prayer of penitence has been rated by our Prophet as the finest one: "O Allah: verily you are my Lord: There is no God but you: You created me and therefore I am your bondsman, and I am bound to redeem my promise and pledge to the possible extent. I seek your pardon from my misdeeds. I acknowledge, all the bounties, you conferred on me and I also acknowledge my sins. So please pardon my sins. Verily you are the only who can pardon the sins". Allah prescribes a recipe to eschew the nightmares: 203

"Those who are pious, when they face some hazards from the Satan, they remember (Allah) and turn perspicacious".

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always optimistic about the mercy of Allah and be confident that whatever may be the enormity of your sins, the mercy of Allah is more enormous. If there is a person whose enormity of sins beats the meerschaum, and he falls on the threshold of Divine Abode with all his contrition, Allah responds positively to the call of such a man also and covers him with His endless mercy. If any feeling of contrition emanates in you in any stage of life, it should be regarded by you as Divine Inspiration. At this juncture you can ascertain that the door of penitence is yet open in front of you. Allah says: "Say: O my bondsmen who have committed excess to themselves: don't be desperate of Divine mercy. Verily Allah forgives all the sins. He is the forgiving, the benevolent. Turn to Him repentently and surrender to Him before the arrival of the Torment to you. Then you can not be rescued". 205

Having indulged in penitence, you should brace up to consolidate the same, and should concentrate, day and night, all your mental attentions on the redemption of the pledge, you have entered with Allah. Despite all your sincere efforts, if you swerve from the line and undergo some mishaps, please do not allow any chance to disappointment, but seek asylum in Divine mercy till you reoccupy that place where a man turns to be human. In this context, please don't forget that your disappointment from the mercy of Allah is akin to not having belief in Him. Allah has very categorically said: "Don't give up hope of the mercy of Allah".

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Those who tend to hoard with a bid to earn bumper profits, and those who tend to adulterate causing solicitude for the mankind they eventually incur the loss of peace and tranquillity, and become a pathetic semblance of inquietude and perplexity. Ostensibly they may appear overjoyed, but their hearts bleed with tears. They are chased by all sorts of fear and scare. They do not repose their confidence anywhere so they lose sympathy from any quarter. As the prices of consumers' goods go down, they pine away with this grim concern, and with the price hike, they regain their merriment and rejoice. As such, please don't lose the sight of that Bargain which shall rescue you from the clutches of the drastic torments and which yield to you an eternal success and ever lasting life, not an ephemeral wealth. "O Believers: can I indicate you such a business that shall rescue you from the drastic torment? You believe in Allah and His prophet and fight in 207

the way of Allah with your assets and your lives. This is best for you if you have knowledge". "Evil be for the defrauders who when they are measured, they take upto the mark. But when they measure or weigh for the people, they incur to them loss. Do they not think that they are to be resurrected for a arastic Day, the Day when all the people shall stand before the Lord of the Universes".

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Allah

says regarding both the male and female believers: The love and affection compounded with cooperation, solidarity and sincerity, are the hallmarks of Muslim Society. The believers love each other for the sake of Allah because every believer is a member of the selected band of Allah. The member of this Divine Band are complacent to each other, sharing the grief and Joy with each other. In this consideration, they are likened to a body, when a particular organ suffers from any ailment or malady, it summons all the body to pyorrhea and insomnia. Allah has truly depicted the Prophet (P.B.U.H) and his followers (R.A.): "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and those, with him, are stiff to the disbelievers and benevolent among them". Among the traits that qualify a believer is that he likes for his brother what he likes for himself. So establish with your Muslim 209

brothers very cordial rapport as if you all were SOLITAIRE. As such, you should extend to them your association and cooperation in their weal and woe. This compact fraternal tie has been interpreted in the Holy Quran as follows: "The believers are but brothers".

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THE HOLY WRIT

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Holy Quran is a tremendous benefaction, conferred on the mankind by Allah through His Prophet (P.B.U.H). This book is beyond any doubt and it comes as mooring for all those who are propense to the guidance. This Holy writ incorporates every thing right from the socio-economic principles to the recipes of Universesubjection. It has every single detail. Allah guides us to our obligation towards Quran where He says: "This is a glorious Book, revealed to you so that they may ponder over its verses and so that the clairvoyants may reflect". So it is our duty not to recite Quran incomprehensibly only to invoke the blessing or keep it in the house as a show piece. But our duty is to consider its texts elaborately. As far as the comprehension of its verses is concerned, the responsibility thereof is assumed by Allah Himself as He says: 211

"We have made Quran easy to remember, so is there any one who can remember?" This verse highlights what should be our stand to Quran: This stand never-the-less is to get accustomed to think in the Holy Quran so that our hearts be guided and enlighted and we be qualified to obtain the master-code for the subjection of skies and earth.

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DON'T THEY PERCEIVE?

Have they not gone deep in the dominion of the

skies and earth and in any thing, created by Allah, and that likely their term drew nigh". There are so many suns, millions time bigger than ours, set afloat in the endless blue space. Our sun, if compared to countless solar systems, be rated as only a miniature. Not with standing all those, the man has been appointed to dictate all the universes. Therefore Allah says: "We have preferred the humans to many of our creatures". All the inhabitants of this picturesque world constitute a fraternal tie. All the planets or the kinds, occupying these planets or their individuals, they are moving under solo blood circulation, and their creation is subject to a single Formula. Thus the oceans, mountains, suns and stars all are the bothers of Human. Allah says: "He is Who created you from a solitary souls". 213

A man, even with the least balance of consciousness, may not allege that this universe has come into the shape quite accidentally, and there is no such accidental thing existing in this universe. Do you count it possible that the river may change its natural flow and begin to flow upward instead of flowing downward? or have you noticed any waterfall gushing upwards, not downwards? It is our daily routine to use fruits and wheat flour. Please mobilize those cells of your mind which are responsible to form the sense, and think about the fact that every seed is a invincible house of its family. This house has all the details of its family, the over all drawings of the house, all its dimensions and all the leaves, fruits and branches. That small seed turns to a towering tree with the assistance of earth, air and heat which come as its nutrients. As every seed maintains all the minor and major details of the prospective tree, even the particulars of its past and future pedigrees, likewise all the past, present and 214

future programs of the Universe, are recorded with Allah. In this context, the Holy Quran reads: "Not an atom's weight in the skies or in the earth, or less than that or more, may elude Him, but they are in the clear record". When we cast our glance around us, we any how concede that there is some power which keeps everything alive and active, and that every thing is shadowed by an aura that keeps the body nicely balanced. This a aura is somewhere green, somewhere red and somewhere other than green and red. Over this aura there is one more aura which remains colorless. Though this unseen power is not caught by our eyes, but that power is peremptorily existing. Allah says counting His profound traits: "Allah there is no God save Him, the Alive, the Eternal He is caught neither slumber nor sleep. To Him is the reins of whatsoever is in the skies and whatsoever is in the earth, who can intercede with Him without His permission. He is aware of whatsoever is in front of them and whatsoever is 215

behind them. And they do not encompass any thing of His, knowledge, but of what He willed. His throne extends over the skies and earth and He never get tired of their preservation. He is the sublime, the great". "Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were compact, so we split them. And we made every living thing from water? So do not they believe? And we placed in the earth firm hills lest it quake with them, and we placed therein ravines as paths, perchance they may find their way. And we made the sky a safe roof while they swerve from its portents. And He is who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They all float in an orbit".

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THE TREASURES, LATENT IN THE MAN

And He is who sends down water from the sky

and through which we brought forth the plant of every thing, then we brought forth the green blade from which we bring forth the piled up grain, and from the palm tree, from the pollen thereof spring pendant bunches, and the vineyards, the olive and the pomegranates, resembling each other and not resembling. Look upon the fruit thereupon when they yield fruits and upon its ripening. Of course, this bears portents for those people who believe." "And Allah is who sends the winds and they raise some clouds, then we drive them towards a dry land and through which we resuscitate the earth after it is dead". Who is not cognizant of the fact that the life of every thing in this universe is stringed with the food. The humans cater to their need with meat, lentils, salt, wheat and other food-stuffs. Some animals live on grass and the beast on the flesh. The birds pickup the grains while the insects lick the soil. 217

Nitrogen, lime, potash and hydrogen serve the nutritional needs of the plants while the earth is nurtured with fallen leaves, bones, droppings, blood and hairs. In order to infuse energy and power in this globe, stretching over 25000 miles in length and breadth, the nature has established a very meticulous and sagacious system through solar rays. This is why when active solar rays fall on the oceanic turf, the vapours go up and up on the aeroshoalders. Then all the earth turns to be a water pond and the creational frames rise to their culmination. Allah says: "And of His portents is (that) He shows you the lightning in pessimism and optimism, and sends down water from the sky and thereby He resuscitates the earth after its death. Of course, it bears the portents for those people who comprehend". Allah also says: "Did you not see that Allah sent down water from the sky and drove it as water-spring in the 218

earth. Then He shall bring forth multi-color crops". He says in another place of Holy Quran : " You notice the earth lifeless, but as soon as we send down water thereupon, it thrills and thrives and grows every Colorful kind of crops". According to the notion of spiritual scientists, the trees too exchange their views and talk, consume their foodstuffs respire, grow and beget like human. Moreover, they are indulged in life struggle and fight with each others with stupendous military maneuvers and meticulous strategic outworks as the mankind involved in. The earth is a rich herbarium. Some herbs have their seeds twenty times smaller than the poppy seeds. The nature has assembled within them two conjuncted leaves, a root which penetrates in the earth, and a knot which turns to be a brand root. This knot, before the process of turning to a root, reserves there its food for some days. So intellectuals! muse and think and go deep in 219

this Universe and appreciate that when a miniature seed is brought with so huge life restoring stuffs, then what not would be latent in the man, the divine viceroy?

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WHAT A METICULOUS ORIGINATOR IS OUR LORD !

Allah has created all reptiles with water. Some

of them walk on their belly. some walk on two legs while some others walk on four. Allah creates what he wills. Verily Allah is omnipotent". On this earth, Allah has created multifarious animals. If we try our level best to count down them, to our utter consternation, we will find that these animals have millions of kinds, and if we try to count its individuals, they may sour to billions. Each kind is specialized with some color and mood, and the shape and mood of the billions of individuals of one kind are different from those of another kind. The same case can be applicable to the plants and minerals. Some insects have so microscopic size that if we want to seize a glance of them by picking up them with the tips of the finger, they are totally disjointed and reduced to some invisible particles. Even though, their body comprises the kidney, 221

bones, lung, gastro-enteric system. brain. eyes, wings, legs, and what not ! The day-night routines of different animals are different pursuant to their circumstances. Some of them enjoy day-sleep and night vigilance and some others are habituated vice-versa. There are some animals who continue for several months to live in their hideouts within the roofs of the houses in extreme summers and winters, despite the fact that they ostensibly are not provided with air, nutrients and light. The nature has assigned to the air the nutritional charge of the trees. This is why they in no solitary case require to walk over. Please make your mind what an IMBROGLIO or confusion can prevail on the earth if the trees start to walk hither and thither like the animals ,or start to fly in the space like the birds? can the universal System, as such. remain unaffected: The pearls float on the surface of water. swinging in the oyster-canoes. This oysterthe scientists are quoted to have said - has 222

many a mouth, each mouth consisting of four lips. Some birds have only the sense of touch. Some have some more senses while some have five senses barring the sight. As far as the animals with five senses are concerned, every one of us is well-conversant with. The dexterous craftsmanship of the nature can be seen through the fact that every creature, either with three senses or less or more, is completely devoid of any physical deficiency or constitutional deformity. Apart from all these, there are certain animals who roll on the earth instead of walking. There are some insects which only can creep while some others walk on their bellies or gallop. Some birds fly over with two wings and some others with four. Likewise, some animals have two legs and, some others four or six or more upto thousand. Therefore Allah diverts our attention towards some extraordinary creatures where He says:

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"Do they not look upon the camels, how they are created and upon the sky, how it is raised? and upon the hills, how they were pitched in? and upon the earth how it is paved up. So remind them as you are but a remembrance". Several mineral water streams gush out from the mountains to irrigate the farms. The mountainous summits nurture the colossal trees of pine and cedar. It is the mountain which is fully pregnant with coal, chalk, limestone, copper. gold. iron and other minerals. These mountains lay over billion years of time in the depth of the sea, and when they grew young, they appeared on the surface of this earth with all the mineral wealth, latent in their bosom. Therefore, Allah, the absolute sovereign, and the true originator says: "And we made every living thing from the water". Man is the most charismatic portent of the nature. The experts have unmasked this fact that billions of cells are operational in the creation of the man, to begin with, it is a 224

single cell, than it is multiplied in two, four, eight and so forth to constitute the human body. Some cells play a vital role in the formation of nose, some in the formation of ear, some in the formation of eyes and some others in the formation of other organs. What a wonder that these cells in no single case formed the ears in the place of nose, or eyes in the fixture of the ear. Why it is so unfallingly because the ever vigil eye of Allah supervises every single process, and because this supervision is eternal, not provisional or Sporadic. "What that is in the skies and earth is but for Allah".

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THE INGRATITUDE

Allah says: "He is who sent down water from the sky where from you have your drink and where from are those trees wherein you drive your cattles to pasture. Thereby He grows for you the crops the olive, the palm trees, the grapes and all sorts of fruits. Of course, it bears portents for these people who muse." The sky becomes clear after down pour and the clouds are driven by the winds, neither the rain continues to come down nor the sky remains cloudless. These two conditions occur alternately. If the rain continues to come down, all the food-stuffs like vegetables and grains, which are considered the essential commodities, shall be reduced to ashes, and the traffic shall be blocked and the life activities shall be hampered. On the contrary, if the rain permanently discontinues, and the sky remains cloudless, the water of streams and lakes shell be polluted and be evaporated, and the air shall be laden with toxic elements, and the 226

epidemic shall be rampant in every nook and corner of this globe. All the pastures shall burn and all the greenaries shall dry up. So the bees will not be in a position to suck the honey from the flowers and their production of honey, which is a panacea to mankind, shall come to an end. Therefore Allah says: "But He supplies in certain quantity according to His discretion. Indeed He is Well-conversant with and cognizant of His bondsmen". The life of every animal being is pendent on the air. If it comes to an standstill, even for some fraction of second, all the animals shall face death. This very air plays a very vital role in driving the water-borne clouds from the Sky to the earth. The air, in the initial phase, evaporates the water, in co-ordination with the solar heat. Then the air drives the evaporated water to the sky and breaks it to form the clouds. Then the air roams with those clouds hither and thither in the sky. Then these clouds come down heavily on the earth in the shape of down pour.

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Imam Ghazali says : "The Easterlies move the clouds upward, and the Northers assemble the wandering pieces of the clouds, and the southerns make them leaky while the westerlies rain the earth in the shape of drops". Allah says : "We dispatched the winds as stimulators, so we sent down water from the sky and fetched you to drink and you are not supposed to store it". It is the air which drives the clouds to different places, so the farmers capitalize on them by growing the crops on the earth. If there would not be the air, the clouds could have stayed laden with water, in one place, and the earth could have been deprived of their water. The credit goes to the air for the movement of the ships. The air flows them from one country to another and provides the mankind with their life-needs. Thus the people of one place are benefitted with the products of the another place. If there would be no air, the benefit of the 228

national products could have been restricted to the Local populace only. The air causes purity and cleanliness, and drives the filth and squalidity. The air also takes the dust and sand to the gardens to be a source of energy and power for the trees. When the air flows over the oceanic surface. the water, with the collaboration of the air, sidelines on the shore so many things. All these are due to sagacious administration of Allah which controls the system of the universe. Allah is greatest! It is quite strange that every bit of this universe taken up charismatic jobs while the man, the noblest creature, goes driftless for his life and livelihood. O man: Think: in how many ways you are going to gainsay the Divine bounties and benediction.

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FACE TO FACE

Our prophet (P.B.U.H.) says: "There are three destroyers (a) a covet which is blindly pursued. (b) Niggardliness, complied with (c) the conceit of the man,- being the most dangerous self-impeachment is such a function which purifies the man from all the putrid and vicious agents and blows in the nation the spirit of vivacity and activity. The good friend is one who admits the criticism of the friends and tries his level best to rectify himself. But one should not lose the Sight of the fact that the friend be not shown the moral stains in such a way that may hurt his sentiment. The tactful device to remove the stains is the best friendship. Likewise, when you try to correct your friend, you too should be generous enough to give him a chance to point out your defects and when 230

they accomplish this unpleasant task please welcome their criticism gracefully and broadmindedly, and with an open heart and a sense of gratitude, pay thanks to his sincerity and kindness. Our prophet (P.B.U.H.) has likened this ideal friendship to a mirror: "One of you is the mirror of his brother. So when he finds with him any defect, he should remove it". As per the spiritual Law, every person is a mirror, and the function of mirror is that when a man stands opposite it, the mirror absorbs all his stains and spots in itself and exposes them to him. When he gets away, the mirror ignore all these stains and spots. Like this broadmindedness of the mirror, you should too expose your friend's defect and shortcomings only when he presents himself before you for criticism and gives you an ample chance of impeachment. While giving advices, you should entertain leniency and courtesy. If you feel that your friend is not prosense to withstand your overdose reproach, please defer your 231

campaign to another sitting. You should avoid, in his absence, to utter such words that may leak out any of his flaws, because such a thing is back-biting which engenders hatred. Point out only those defects which are exposed to you during the whole life period of the friend and don't trace out the perdu flaws, because to dig out the hidden defects is the most heinous and disastrous malady. Once Prophet (P.B.U.H.) climbed the platform and warned the audience in a sonorous accent: "Don't pursue the secrets of Muslims. One who lusts after the secrets of his Muslim brothers, Allah exposes his own secrets and when Allah turns to disclose someone's secrets, he becomes ignominious though he may be sitting underground".

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THE FROWNING FACES

The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said : "One Muslim to another Muslim is like the building, strengthened by each other". Then he (P.B.U.H) Symbolized the mutual love and fraternity of Muslims by intertwinning the fingers of both hands. He (P.B.U.H.) also said: "The believers in their mutual love, sympathy and benevolence may be likened to the one body, as when a part of that body suffers, all the body responds to it with insomnia and pyrexia. " So you should adopt a positive attitude through complying with the instructions of the Prophet, the semblance of truth, the moral preceptor, and you should meet your friends cheerfully and sincerely, and welcome them with smiling face and open heart. You should not go with them indifferent and heedless with a frowning face, because the careless attitude towards 233

friends, and to have with them a dry chat and refraction of ostensibly invisible hypocrisy on the face, are such maladies which give birth to the hatred and antipathy in the hearts. When you get together with your friends, nears and dears and others, talk to them cheerfully, collectedly and humbly. The words of dejection ,monotony and disgust should not be allowed to cross your lips. Adopt such a phraseology which may gladden your dejected and displeased friends. Who receives a man with a sombrous face, it causes then poignancy instead of gaiety. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) Says: "Who are insignificant. simple and candid. Allah shall keep him aloof from the fire." One tradition reads this addition. "and shall keep the fire aloof from him." The Prophet (P.B.U.H) when turned to some one, turned totally, and when someone talked to him, he listened to him with utmost care. 234

IN THE WAY OF ALLAH

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the poorer and needy gently and cordially. In case, you have nothing to favour, apologize in good grace so that he may depart you chanting the prayer for you though you have given him nothing. Those fully deserve the success and godspeed who keep their hearts free of niggardliness. A believer who has the real spirit to give some thing in the way of Allah, how he can tolerate that his earning be mixed with self and ill-gotten elements. Donate in the way of Allah to serve both the individual and collective causes because this philanthropic attitude stabilizes the country and people. Remain grateful to Allah for that he gave you the upper hand while you have no priority to be singled out from the bands hand of poorer and needy. It is mere benediction of Allah, otherwise you have no disparity with the poorer one. Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: 235

"There are seven persons who shall get under the Divine shadow the day when there will be no shadow save the shadow of Allah. One of them is the man who spent in the way of Allah so clandestinely that even his left hand could not know what his right hand disposed off."

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Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) said: "who refrained from posh clothing obsequiously while he was capable to do so, Allah shall put on him the garment of the honor". This clearly indicates that simplicity in the dresses is a sign of Islamic religion. There are so many bondsmen of Allah who remain uncared for, and they are not the cynosure of the eyes due to their simple outer appearance, but they are rated so high by Allah that if they take an oath, Allah shall keep that oath. Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also said: " Any believer who puts on some believer a cloth, while he was nude, Allah shall put on him the brocades of the paradise ". Your servants and retinues are your brothers, so feed them what you consume, and put on them what you put on yourself 237

and don't assign to them what is beyond their power and capacity. Once the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: No vanity shall enter the paradise. One person told: every person likes to have neat clothes and shoes. The Prophet clarified: This is not the vanity, because Allah is beautiful and likes beauty. But the vanity is to falsify the truth and to undervalue the people.

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the last date of Shaaban. the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) addressed the people and told: " A great and auspicious month is just knocking the door. This month has a night which is better than thousand nights ". Allah enjoined the people to observe the fast in this month and revealed the Holy Quran therein as He revealed therein the other Holy writs. Ibrahim (A.S.) was given the books on first or third of Ramadhan while Zabour (books of Psalms) was revealed to Dawood (A.S.) on l2th or 18th Ramadhan . On 16th of it, Moosa (A.S.) was given the Bible and on l2th or 13th, Esa (A.S.) got the Evangile. To sum up, Ramadhan the month during which Quran was revealed, is a month, fraught with all benedictions, benevolances and mercies. This month refines and polishes the human consciousness. The soul sours high in the sky and gets nigh of the supernal altitudes only because the man has kept away from food and drink for the sake of Allah. Moreover, 239

this is the month during which, Gabriel was reciting the Holy Quran on the Prophet(P.B.U.H.) and the prophet (P.B.U.H) was reciting it on Gabriel. You too should read the Holy Quran explicitly and comprehensively because the recital stablizes the attachment of the bondsman to Allah, and lend a generous hand to the poorer, widows, orphans and penniless. The Prophet (P.B.U.H), the semblance of openheartedness and generosity, was turning in the month of Ramadhan more generous. So join us to pledge that we too shall help the poorer very liberally so as to follow the foot marks of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.)

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Once our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) sat to a grave and told: The grave talks daily and say: O man: have you forgotten me: I am the hot bed of insects: I am the place of torture and catastrophe. I am tormentor of all the humans save those fortunates for whom I am broadened. Then our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) concluded saying: The Grave is either a garden of paradise or a ditch of the hell Once Hazrat Ali (K.W.) visited the graveyard, accompanied with Kumail. When he reached it, he cast a glance at the graves and addressed the buried and told: O occupants of the graves: O residents of the deserted place: O dwellers of solitude and estrangement: Tell us about you: As far as our case is concerned, our properties and assets have been distributed, and our children reduced orphans, and over wives remarried. This is our predicament. What is your situation? He kept silence for a while, then looked at Kumail and told: O Kumail: If these grave-dwellers be allowed to utter, they could say that the best provision is the 241

piety. Then Hazrat Ali burst into tears for a long while and told: O Kumail: The grave is a container of the works and this is wellobvious to those who are about to die. It is a common sight now-a-days that people smoke even in the graveyards. They go for entertainment while interment as they are in merriment, and discuss worldly topics ignoring the fact that the Grave is the entrance to the world hereafter. Please concentrate on the life thereafter when you see this Entrance.

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QURAN AND SUBJECTION FORMULAE

Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was extremely fond of the Holy Quran. Not only he loved to recite the Holy Quran, but also he was feeling happy if others recite it before him (P.B.U.H.). Every year in the month of Ramadhan Gabriel used to present the Holy Quran on Him (P.B.U.H.). He was reciting the Holy Quran with full devotion even in a standing posture. When he was reading, every word and every verse came explicit and unequivocal. He (P.B.U.H.) said: " Dizen the Quran with your voices". What an exhilarent harbinger, communicated by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) to the reciters of the Holy Quran: i.e. : "When the reciter or the memorizer of the Quran shall make his entry into the paradise, he will be requested: read and elevate yourself in the paradise and continue to read as you was reading explicitly and melodiously in the world because your destination is that ladder where you end your recital". 243

Read Quran partially but regularly and contemplate on its meanings and latent secrets. Don't go fast in reciting a major portion of Quran without thinking in the meanings, as the huge treasures of domination science and subjection formulae are latent in the Quran. They will be revealed to us as much we go deep as Abdullah Bin Abbas ( R.A. ) says : " It is better in my view to read the small Suras like Al-Qaria and Al-Qadr with rumination than to go fast and driftless with the long Suras like Al-Baqra and Ale Imran". The following verse, once was recited by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) whole the night: "O my Lord: If you torture them, they are your bondsmen, and if you forgive them you are the dominant, the clairvoyant".

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THE BEST FRIEND

The prophet (P.B.U.H.) said : " A good companion may be likened to a perfumer. If he may not benefit you: may fill you with his fragrant smell. And a bad companion is likened to an iron-smith. If he may not burn you, may fill you with his smoky smell". While choosing friends, please keep in your mind the view-points of the person to whom you are going to extend your hands for friendship, and whether his ideology is healthy and Constructive or otherwise, and what he has so far preferred to Allah and His Prophet? The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: "The man follows the pattern of his friend so you should be very particular about whom you befriend." Your rapport and co-operation with friends in particular, and your love of others in general, should be based upon the pleasure of Allah with no string to benefit or interest. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: 245

"Those who love each other for my sake, I shall keep them under my shadow the day when there will be no shadow save my shadow." Give a prime importance to the affairs of Allah and His Prophet in the avocations of you and your friends. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) told: " Allah said: my love shall come true for those who love each other for my sake, and my love shall come true for those who visit each other for my sake, and my love shall come true for those who abhor each other for my sake, and my love shall come true for those who show a good behaviour to each other for my sake. "

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uphill tasks, to be undertaken by the believer, and the high responsibilities to be shouldered by him, being the viceroy of Allah on the earth, require the energy in the body. The determination in the intention, the height in the courage and a life brimming with composure, prowess, ambition and high emotions. The healthy and elegant people, not others, constitute a vivacious nation, and it is but such nation which create a ground for it after great sacrifices. When this world becomes the cynosure of a man, he falls a prey to grief and fury, anguish and concern, rancor and malice, ill intention and short sightedness, dynamism and mental upheavals. These moral maladies and mental perplexities have a worst impact on the digestive system. It goes without saying that a disturbed digestive system is construed a bitter foe for the health. A bad health makes a man stupid and scared. Once our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) addressed his followers with the following: 247

" A time is high when all the nations shall assault you from every hook and corner as the gormanders assault the dining table. We asked: is this due to our scarcity at that times He told: you will be at that time multitudes, but you will be like the scams of the riverbed. Your fear will be snatched out from the hearts of your foes and you will turn demoralized. One follower asked: O Prophet of Allah what would be the cause for demoralization? He replied: Lust after the life and aversion to the death."

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Allah becomes happier with the repentance of the bondsmen than with any thing else. Taubah (Repentance) literally means to return and retrace the step. The bondsman when is entangled in the precipices of ideological and emotional perversities and is departed from Allah far away as if he was lost from Allah. When he returns back to Allah with a drooping head and damp eyes, as if Allah had a happy reunion with His lost bondsman. Our prophet (P.B.U.H.) Said : "Allah stretches His hand in the night so that a day sinner may made his comeback and repentance, and stretches His hand in the day so that the night sinner may make his comeback and repentance. This offer from Allah shall continue till the sun rises from the west direction." To stretch hand here denotes that Allah calls His bondsmen to Him with a bid to cover their sins with his limitless bliss. 249

The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also said: "Every man is sinner and the best sinners are the repentants. " Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) stressed the recitation of the following prayer regularly in order to strengthen the pledge, we have made with Allah: "O Allah you are my Lord: There is no god but you: You created me and I am your bondsman and I am firm on your pledge and promise to my level best. I seek refuge in you from the evil of what I committed, and I acknowledge your bounty to me and I acknowledge my sin, so pardon my sin because none can forgive the sins but you."

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THE HELL-DWELLERS GIVE ALMS TO PARADISE-OCCUPANTS

Allah 'the almighty' says : "Tell (them): travel in the world and see how He (Allah) has initiated the creation". "Have they not thought in the dominion of the skies and earth and the things, created by Allah, and that their turn may have neared". "And likewise the mountains have the white and red streaks of different types ,and some of them are extremely black, and on the same pattern, the mankind, cattles and livestocks are of various colors. Among the bondsmen of Allah only the scholars fear Him. Verily Allah is dominant, forgiver". These judicious verses give an impression that Allah invites His bondsmen to think in his book and creation of the universe. It is the utmost desire of the creator that His bondsmen should establish the habit of contemplation and rumination so that they 251

could reveal the meaning, latent in the following verse: "And He (Allah) taught Adam all the science, then brought them to the Angels and told : tell me their names if you are truthful." So those who think about the verses or portents of Allah and contemplate on the universe, the cosmic realities appear before them. Therefore the nations, who play their part, having traced out the cosmic realities, they secure all the honor and dignity. On the contrary, the nations, with dying heart, hypocrisy and sycophancy, permeate the channels of their thought and conception, and ultimately they are hit by subjection and humiliation. Allah says : "He it is who created for you all that available on the earth". Allah also said:

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"All the audio-visuals and heart will be questioned about." In this era of charismatic advancement, it is common sight that only those nations are sublime and reverend who exploit their audio-visual and conceptional powers. Indeed all their scientific developments are stringed with the utilization of the bounties of consciousness and wisdom by some nations. Allah says : "We have sent down the iron, which contains immense power and benefits for the mankind." Is there any scientific development, isolated from the Iron? Are we not instilled a lesson through airplanes, ships, railways, automobiles, heavy machinery, large and small factories, and the devastating arsenals? Quran is ours: Allah is Ours: the verse is contained in that book which is ours: All that is 0.K. but only because we are bereft of conception, and rumination while others are fully involved therein, we are unsatisfied 253

and they are satisfied. We are sticking to the contempt and humiliation and they are culminated to the honor and dignity. We are the mendicants and they are our doners. We pretend that the paradise is made for us and the hell for other than us. We are in dilemma to justify this acute mentality. How it is possible that the paradise-occupants live at the mercy of the hell-dwellers, and that the formers put on them the worn-out garments of the latters, and owe to them for every things. In fact, due to non-availability of the cosmic contemplation, we are rendered such a nation which is deprived of all the worldly and supernal positions. The importance of contemplation and rumination may be appreciated from this statistical fact that the verses in the Quran, relevant to ablution, prayer, fasting, religious tax, pilgrimage, divorce, credit and social affairs, are restricted to 150 while the verses, inviting to think and contemplate, have gone to 756. Some verses are as follows:

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"Of course: the creation of the skies and the earth and alteration of night and day have many tokens for men of wisdom". "Of course, the creation of the skies and the earth and alteration of night and day, and the ship which sail over the sea to benefit the mankind, and the water, which Allah poured down from the sky and resuscitated thereby the earth after it was dead, and dispersed all kinds of beast thereon, and the mobilization of the winds, and clouds, hanging between the sky and earth, have my tokens for those who are wise".

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Manifestation

of courtesy in the business provides guarantee for its promotion. So as a businessman you have to assume several responsibilities: 1. To purvey the goods of better and better quality, and not to dispose to others the poor quality, with which you too are not satisfied. 2.

To earn the confidence of your customers with your conduct so that they may regard you as their wellwisher and have a good impression about you, and repose their full confidence in you that they will never be cheated by your shop or enterprise.

To offer the exact and perfect suggestion to a customer who consults you though at the cost of your loss.

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after performing the necessary prayers and duties, invokes all the divine benedictions. 5.

To fully involve yourself and your employees in your business and give them their rights openheartedly. as they are your organs in the promotion of your business, and deal with them quite complacently.

6. Not to apply undue pressure over the borrowers while he is in financial strait, because our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has said: "One who alleviate any agony from any Muslim, Allah shall alleviate from him his agonies on the Dooms Day". 7.

To be very particular in weighing and measuring i.e. to adopt the utmost honesty while you weigh to others or from others. Allah says : "Evil will be for the defrauders who when they are measured they take upto the mark. But when they measure or weigh for them 257

they incur to them loss. Do they not think that they are to be resurrected for a drastic Day, the Day When all the people shall stand before the Lord of the Universes." It is narrated by Anas Bin Malik (R.A.) " that an Ansari follower came to Prophet (P.B.U.H.) asking him for some thing. He (P.B.U.H) questioned: Have you left any thing in your house The follower replied, Yes: a rough cloth, some of which is to be put on, and some of which is to be floored with, and a bowl in which we drink water. The prophet (P.B.U.H.) ordered him to bring them forth. He complied with. The Prophet auctioned both the objects in two dirhams and ordered him to go to his house with some edibles, purchased by one Dirham and to return to him with an axe, purchased by another one. He did and Prophet (P.B.U.H.) fixed with the axe a wooden butt and told : Go and cut woods : I am not to see your face for (15) days. He began to cut the woods and make of business of them and thus he got (10) Dirhams. He returned to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) with this income so He told: purchase food with some amount and 258

clothes with some amount. This is better for you than to be resurrected while the begging is etched in your face. Once our Prophet was asked: Which earning is best? He (P.B.U.H.) told: The Work of the man with his own hand and each valid business. In compliance with this Tradition, we should conduct our business, standing firmly on our religious grounds, and Promote our business with truth and certitude, and not indulge in false oath to dispose off our goods or to impress the customers. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H. ) told: " There are three persons to whom Allah will neither talk nor look at, nor purify, and they will be prey to drastic torment. Among three the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) counted the person who commercialize his goods with false oath." The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also said:

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"A true and devout businessman will be among Messengers, the veracious persons and the Martyrs."

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Our prophet, the Messenger of Allah; said: " Any significant work, not initiated with the name of Allah. Shall remain incomplete". Like your other business, when you go to write a letter to your friends, relative or to some commercial establishment, you should write 'In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the benevolent'. It is a common observation that people take it sufficient to write 786 in place of Bismillah. You should avoid such abbreviation, because every letter of the divine beginning code is full of benediction and Judiciousness. In every letter, write your full address. Don't be lethargic in address writing, purchance your addressee might have forgotten your address, or the address was written in his diary and the diary would have been missing while it is necessary for him to reply as you have written certain inquisitive things. To write the address shall rest you from unnecessary writing. Write your 261

address in clear and legible writing. Note down also the date in the left margin or down your address. After writing date, write the necessary forms of address of your addressee. These forms of address should be indicative of sincerity and close relation, not of artificiality and sycophancy. For communication of your thoughts, Use a polished, easy and TERSE language. During the currency of your writing, the caliber of your addressee should not be sidelined, and cheep and ludicrous Comments should be shunned. Don't embark on writing while you are disgruntled. Don't read the letters of others without permission as this habit is a grave and high treason by any moral view point. Try your level best not to leave any of your sittings or congregations bereft of the remembrance of Allah. In such get-togethers, when you feel that the audience are getting monotonous of the religious discourse, maneuver the track of your talk tactfully to a subject, dealing with the fine Memoirs of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.).

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DISSEMINATION OF SALAAM (GREETING)

When we want a person to join our front, we should go closer to him and negotiate him, keeping in our minds his tendencies and mental faculties, and to win his sympathy by extending our co-operation to him in his personal grievances, provided he likes such a gesture from you because service and cardiac attachment are such a function that lays down the foundation of friendship inadvertently. Propagate your religion but tactfully and judiciously. Don't attack directly on the tenets to which he is adherent. Your initial move should be around winning his sympathy and confidence. To achieve this goal, you should lend him a helping hand. When he reposes his trust in you, please start advising him in a Luscious and attractive style. If he counterattacks you with some questions, satisfy him with your answers to your best. While talking to your addressee, don't ignore his mental capacity and as gush, don't waste your propagational talents through hasty, idiotic and irritative attitude. Converse with 264

every individual, every group and every class within their thinking range and according to their ability and mental capacity and social position. Your propagational campaign should he laid down on to those points which are the conflict of your viewpoints and viewpoints of your addressee with mutual understanding and amenity. If you criticize, it should be constructive and indicative of your sincerity and love. Keep your image unmaligned with the sentiments of obduracy and obstinacy, hatred and bigotism. If you feel such sentiments emanating in your mind, lock your mouth and bid adieu to that sitting. Allah says: " Call to the way of your Lord with sapience and fair exhortation and argue with them in the batter way". It is narrated by Hazrat Anas (R.A.) that the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) advised him emphatically saying:

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"O Anas: When you enter your house, greet your family. It shall invoke the benediction for you and for your family. " Asma D/o Yazeed says : I was sitting with some ladies and when the prophet (P.B.U.H) passed by us, he greeted us. Hazrat Umme Hani says : I came to Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and greeted him. He questioned about me and when I introduced myself, he welcomed me. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) told: " May I indicate you such a thing. whereby your mutual love and affection shall increase. Disseminate the greeting among you." He (P.B.U.H.) also ordered " Disseminate the Salaam (greeting) and you will be secured by Allah. " A Muslim's right to his brother is to greet him whenever he meets him. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was greeting so more-often that when his followers disappeared if any tree 266

came in between them, He (P.B.U.H.) used to greet them as soon as they made their appearance. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: "The best of you (both) who greets first". He ( P.B.U.H) also said: "It is not decent for a Muslim to disconnect his brother for more than three days. When they meet, one turns his face in this direction and the other turns his face in that direction. while the best of them (both) who greets first". Greet vocally and loudly so that it may be audible to the greeted person. If you signal either your hand or head while greeting, if situation so warranted it is not unfair. This is on the presumption that the greeted person is so far from you that you think your voice out of his hearing range, or the greeted person is deaf and he can't hear your voice. Then you can signal with greeting.

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is an intrinsic requirement and natural necessity. Islam does not advocate for putting an end on the charm of the national character by artificial prestige, superficial graveness, dynamism and depression. on the contrary, Islam urges Muslims to keep their prestige high with prowess, fortitude composure and new vivacity to boost their morale. When an individual of the nation attains distinction in any branch of knowledge and learning, or when a friend or relative repatriates, or when a friend visits your House, or when you have a marriage or birth ceremony, or some relative has regained his health, or when you receive a harbinger of Muslim victory, or when you celebrate some festival, you should fully enjoy such occasions. Islam not only allows to celebrate the happy occasions but it also considers it as pro religious. Ayesha Siddiqah narrates that it was the festival Day and some girls were singing in 268

her house. Meanwhile Hazrat Abu Bakr arrived and disgruntled to hear the song and strongly objected to it. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) pacified him saying: O Abu Bakr: every nation has a festival day and it is ours. Once some Negroes were playing some acrobatics on a festival day. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) not only observed these acrobatics, but also activated Hazrat Ayesha to observe the same. He (P.B.U.H.) also hailed the acrobats for their excellent performance. To exhilarate oneself and others is a moral duty of a Muslim, and he is supposed to take the utmost care for the Islamic and spiritual taste and other's dignity even in the festive raptures. When he is gladdened, he renders profound gratitude to that man who gladdened him. Even when he is overexcited by some happy happening, he does not adopt an attitude, contravening the teachings of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and strictly adheres to the war of equanimity. He is not so outburst due to piety that may indicate his pride and vanity and may 269

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Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) says : "I am likened, in term of my concern to the people, to a man who kindled the fire, and when his surrounding turned bright, the butterflies and insects began to fall therein. So I am holding you by your waists (lest you fall in the fire) while you insist to fall". He (P.B.U.H.) was in Makkah and the misguided people of Makkah were spinning so many yarns against him. Some were of the idea to punish him (P.B.U.H.) outside the town and some were propounding to assassinate him. In this heated situation, Makkah was hit by such a severe drought that the people had no go save masticating the leaves and peals. The people were as if they were rolling on a firy turf when they found their children yelling due to hunger. As the Prophet was dubbed as "The Mercy of the Universes" he became extremely anxious to see this natural calamity, befallen the common populace. His devout followers too 271

were highly perplexed to see the concern of the Prophet over this overwhelming predicament. He (P.B.U.H.) sent his message of sympathy to his acrimonious adversaries who hurt him not long ago. He (P.B.U.H.) was kind enough to donate five hundred Dinars to Abu Sufwan with a request to distribute the amount among the panic stricken people. So, in conformity with the fine deeds of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.), you should serve the nation Selflessly, and not demand the bondsman of Allah for any requital. What you do should be only to please Allah. "Allah is Alive, is eternal. He is overtaken neither by doze nor by sleep". "Nothing is clandestine to Allah". "Allah does not undo the works of His devout bondsmen". When we go deep in thinking. it becomes lucid for us, with no ambiguity, that Allah is always in the service of His creatures. To 272

provide the creatures with what they need, right from their birth till their death, is a service to be construed as a concomitant trait of Allah, the Creator of the Universes. Allah provides all His bondsmen regardless of all the considerations like obedience or disobedience. Moreover, Allah gives them the proper health to capitalize on the provisions, and gives them the meticulous wisdom to utilize the treasures, spread over this global surface. He also Protects us from all the catastrophes and pardons very liberally all our sins and lapses.

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Our Prophet, the friend of Allah, the Lord of the Universes (P.B.U.H.), Was a symbol of continuous effort, incessant travail, pure dedication, and work, doubled with surety. When he turned to prayers, he concentrated all his attention thereon. and When he resolved to do a job, he did not leave a sign of relief until the job is accomplished. When he talked to some one, he turned to him completely, and he did not discontinue the talk until his addressee Was to do so. The prayer was a consolation for his eyes and a soothing for his heart. He was not one of the votary mystics. He was very prompt to fulfill the rights of the people. He did not bid adieu to this world though he got the pinnacle of spiritual delights, but he managed very tactfully to accomplish all the worldly jobs in addition to his high performance in prayers. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) was patronizing his family members and 274

other poorer on one hand, and was tackling, on other hand, all the significant affairs of the Ummah, and discharging all the political and official duties. He was sending his representatives to the emperors, inviting them to embrace Islam. In short, the superb services, rendered by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in any sphere of the life, have added golden episodes to the annals of the world History. Three followers visited the house of Prophet(P.B.U.H.) and inquired with his wives (their sacred Mothers) about his prayer. When they were informed of his habits in prayer, one of them pledged to pass the whole night in God's service. The other follower undertook to perpetuate the fasting with no interruption of breakfast, and the third vowed to remain a celibate. At this juncture, the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) arrived and inquired about their pledges. He admonished them saying: Listen from me. I have more respect for Allah than you, and even though, Observe fast and break it too. I go for prayers and sleep too. T marry the

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third part then sleeping in one sixth part of the night. Likewise, he was observing fast one day and breaking it another day." The formulae, chalked out by the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) regarding application of moderation in every thing, were absorbed by his followers and complied with. They identified the core object of their Guide (P.B.U.H.) and always stuck to them. Once Hazrat Salman Farsi (R.A.) visited the residence of Hazrat Abu Darda (R.A.). These were those two followers who were fraternized by the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in Madina. Salman noticed the sign of dejection on the face of Umme Darda. When he inquired about the cause, he was appraised that Abu Darda had nothing to do with this world. Meantime, Abu Darda also came and arranged the food for his brother and asked him to eat alone, with the apology that he was fasting. When Salman declared not to eat without him, Abu Darda Participated him breaking the fast. When night crawled and Abu Darda wanted twice to stand for prayer, he was ordered twice by Salman to 277

sleep. When the last hour of the night arrived, Salman told him to get up for prayer, and told him: You have some right for yourself: You have some right for your Lord: You have some right for your guest: and you have some right for your family. So you should fulfill the right of every person. Then both came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and told him all the story. The Prophet responded: "Salman uttered truth".

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The life of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was a sad mixture of the vicissitudes of time. He became orphan before he was begotten. He was hardly matured and the death snatched his mother. This was followed by the death of his grand father after a short while when he entered the prime phase of life, entered poverty but he did not lose his heart. He remained making breakthrough headway till a day came when all the worldly wealth rolled to his feet. He passed through all the tough phases of the life. When he got matured through ups and downs of life, and touched the threshold of forty years, he was conferred the prophet hood by Allah But this opened the flood-gate of all the animosity and hostile attitude, and this was so aggravated that his life was baffled for one more decade. His fault was nothing save his desire to save the creature of Allah from turning the fuel of the fire in retaliation to their idolatry and polytheism, for this act of benefaction, he was rewarded with such ticklish problems which compelled him to 279

make exodus after endless tortures, solicitudes, and the hostility of the relatives that continued for a decade. The patience and prowess of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was appreciated by Allah. Therefore, the time turned in his favor and the Islamic Doctrine crossed the Arab boundaries to the ramparts of the castles of Persian and Roman emperors. Though He (P.B.U.H.) was conferred the highest award in the shape of prophet hood, but still He (P.B.U.H.) continued to lead a simple life as he was doing in his childhood. He always did his work with his own hands and did not magnify his personality. He was engaged in his house with all the homeduties as others were doing in their own houses. With his own hands, he was milking his sheep, darning his clothes, and sewing his shoes. When it was decided that a mosque should be constructed in Madina, he personally participated in all the related works and even he did not hesitate to shift the bricks and stones to the construction sits equaling him with the labors. He was so simple in his dress that all his dress was a 280

shirt, a sheet, an IZAR, and all these were cotton woven. Here the point to be kept in mind is that this simple pattern of life was not due to poverty, celibacy and detachment from the world. But it was a trendsetter for the Ummah. To secure the peace one should lead a simple life notwithstanding all that he has It is narrated by Hazrat Abu Hurairah (R.A) that the people suggested Him (P.B.U.H.) to pray against the polytheists. He (P.B.U.H.) refused their suggestion and told: I have not been sent to vent the wrath, but as the mercy for the world, Among the hallmarks of his character was that the followers in Madina more often were visiting him (P.B.U.H.) early in the morning with a bowl of water and he (P.B.U.H.) was immersing his hand in that water regardless of the freezing temperature. He never liked to belie their hopes. When a house-maid wanted some thing, she took his hand and led him wherever she wanted. He never hesitated to give her a helping hand.

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He was married to Hazrat Khadijah while he was in a flourishing youth and she was older than him by 15 years. His company to her for a quarter century was a real paragon for ideal family life. Throughout this period, not a single incident occurred to scratch the heart. While slaughtering the sacrifice-goats, he managed to send the shares, first of all, to the friends and relatives of Hazrat Khadijah. after the sad demise of her, He (P.B.U.H.) always remembered her so affectionately that Ayesha, the most beloved wife of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) got jealous of her. He was very kind and benevolent to the children. In those days, the girls were rated very low, but going against the wind, our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was carrying Umamah D/o Zainab while offering prayer. When He was bending in Ruku, he was keeping her aside. and when he was standing, he was carrying her again. It is narrated by Hazrat Anas (R.A.) that Abu Talha had a child, Abu Omair by name. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was playing with him. Abu Omair had a nightingale which 282

disappeared one day, causing to him a lot of grief and dejection. When he (Prophet) found him so. he asked him cheerfully to pacify him: O Abu Omair: where did the nightingale go? Umme Khalid D/o Khalid Bin Sayeed narrates that she accompanied her father to Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and that she had put on a yellow shirt. When he cast his glance on the shirt, he commented: very nice: very nice: Then she turned behind him and began playing with the seal on His back. When his father dissuaded her, the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) told: Let her play. When he returned to Makkah, the two children of Abdul Muttalib darted to him for his reception and he very lovingly carried one of them in front and the other behind. All these testify that all the sayings, deeds and attachments of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) Was authentic certitude of the verse, which reads as follows:

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When a guest arrives, first of all you should take the stock of his well-being after the exchange of greeting, as Quran depicts this procedure in the following words: "Have you heard the story of the revered guests of Ibrahim. When they care to him and greeted him, He also greeted him in return and told: You are strange persons. Then he darted to his wife and brought a healthy calf". The people from noble stratum feel very happy to host some one. They do not consider the guest a trouble maker, but an invoker of boons and bounties. The arrival of a guest adds to your house the pride and dignity. It is the ordained duty of a host to honor his guest. If your guest is derogated by someone, you should take it as a challenge for your self-respect and honor. When the villagers assaulted the guests of Ibrahim (A.S.) with mall-intention, he stood 285

in their Way like a rock and told very categorically: "They are my guests : Don't affront me and fear Allah: Don't humiliate me ". When Imam Shafiee (R.A.) lodged as guest in the house of Imam Malik (R.A.), He received him with full sincerity and warmth, and managed for him a bed room to sleep. His sleep was interrupted at the dawn by knock of the door, followed by a gentle voice: May Allah shower His mercy upon you: it is the prayer time. Imam Shafiee got up in a trice. When he opened the door, he found before him Imam Malik with a bowl of water. Imam Shafiee felt shy. Imam Malik told him in a very luscious tone: Brother: Don't bother: To serve a guest is a very happy duty of one and all: Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was of a high concern to his guests and was keeping himself personally in their service, and when He was shared by a guest on the table, He repeatedly encouraged him to take some 286

more. When the guest became satisfied and apologized to take more, he did not insist. Serve to your guests the best dishes and place on the table the crockery, outnumbering the guests, because it may save you from wind-movements if some more guests join your table. The additional crockery shall infuse in the hearts of the new-entrants a pleasant feeling of honor and respect. To sacrifice for the guest is counted among commendable traits. Once a person came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and complained a severe hunger. He sent to one of his wives to fetch some thing, but the answer was nothing but nothing, then he sent to another wife and the answer was same. He turned to his followers and inquired them if there was someone to host the hungry guest. An Ansari Follower accepted the offer and led the person to his house. When his wife informed him that the food was sufficient only for the children, he advised her to lull them to sleep, and to extinguish the lamp under some pretext, having served the food to the guest, and to 287

accompany him so that he may think that we are sharing the food with him. When that Ansari Follower came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in the morning and told him overnight story He commented Allah has appreciated a lot your good behavior with your guest.

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Man is a pinnace to man. Man is a friend of man. To promote the friendship it is necessary for you to evince keen interest in the affairs of your friends and to support them financially. If not then morally by allocating some time for them to solve their problems. Among the obligations of friendship is to receive your friend warmly when you come across him. To maintain the cordial relations to the last ditch is a commendable gesture. It is quite natural that friends may dispute with each other as the housewares, if piled up, they may collide with each other and create noise. This noise may be low or high. It also should be kept in mind that they may be broken following the collision. In such circumstances, it is advisable to adopt a moderate and lenient way. The one kind of the relations is that every man is a friend and brother of the other, and the other kind of the relation, is that the co-religious and compatriots are mutually friends and like-minded.

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To accomplish the specific requirements, regard every man as your brother. Don't indulge in such work which may be injurious to the interest of the human being. Always think on those lines that may give rise to the welfare and betterment of the human race. The easiest way to it, is that you should share the concerns of your friends and relatives and should deviate from them the pressure of the situation under which they are feeling very badly. Likewise you should participate in their happy occasions with no attachment of return and requital. Every friend expects from his dears that they support him in the Vicissitudes of the time and not leave him alone in the hour of trial. Our Prophet, the benefactor to the humanity (P.B.U.H.) likened the Muslims in their collaboration and co-operation to a building, which is interpacked. As an attempt to explain this collaboration, He (P.B.U.H.) intertwined his fingers of both the hands.

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The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also said: The believers in their mutual love, sympathy and mercy, are likened to the body, an organ of which suffers, the whole body responds with insomnia and pyrexia. The courtesy, cheerfulness, sincerity and gentle gesture, indifference, fortify the cordial link. On the contrary carelessness and sombrous face are such maladies that extinguish the heart of your friend. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: "It is also an alms-giving to smile to your friends".

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When a man steps to any sphere of life, he is naturally pushed by the idea of having any good example to enjoy the carrier, he has adopted, and to live on the correct line. He is also desirous of solving his day to day problems through the experiences of his predecessors and making his life better and better. Allah is our greatest care-taker, friend and sympathizer. First he chalked out the codes to idealize our lives, than He heralded these codes to us through His messengers. These codes do not imply on personal benefit, to be achieved by Allah. But on the contrary, all the codes of laws are framed with a bid to benefit us. When one lack 24 thousand messengers did their job and appraised the mankind about what goes in their interest and what against their interest, Allah gave a last touch to this Legal package and sealed the same lest it be distorted. Our friend is Allah, the Lord of the Universes, and the friend of Allah is our Prophet, the Mercy of 292

the world. So when the Mercy of the world, the friend of the Lord of the world, came to this world, he kept before his eyes all the rules, framed by his co-messengers and scrutinized all the distorted versions, as ventured by their followers, and chalked out a comprehensive life code, conducive to all human beings for its rich and ferocious provisions, and applied the same code to every inch of his life-path setting himself a paramount example for the mankind. The friend of Allah, the Lord of the universes is the Mercy of the world: Hazrat Mohammed (P.B.U.H. ) S/o Abdullah. The life of our Prophet is an expression of all the affairs and phases, through which the mankind has to pass till the Day of Resurrection. So his life on the whole is his biography. The hallmark of this biography is that it guides the man simultaneously in all walks of the life, and that it has never been a monopoly for a particular nation, or particular country or particular era. His life and biography are the asset for all the universes, created by the Lord of the universes, and it is within the reach of any 293

person in this world to improve his life in the light of our Prophet's Luminous memoirs. There is no aspect of etiquette, sociology, courtesy, justice and redemption of the promise, unseen in his life. BUSINESS: The most conspicuous feature of a businessman or a trader is that he should hanker after good dealing and be bound to accomplish his promises, and be a man of composure. If these three qualities are not found in a businessman, be may not emerge as a leading businessman. REDEMPTION OF PROMISE: It is narrated by a follower that he entered in a deal with the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in preIslamic period. This deal was not finalized and he was compelled to return. He promised Him (P.B.U.H.) to return back after a short time. He forgot his promise and after a long time recollected it. When he returned , he, to his 294

utter astonishment, found Him (P.B.U.H.) waiting for him. He (P.B.U.H.) only commented undisgruntled: You troubled me a lot: I have been waiting for you since a long time. JUSTICE: When Makkah was conquered by Muslims, they cordoned Taif for about (20) days. All their efforts to conquer Taif proved futile and they were compelled to lift the cordon. Sakhr was a community chief. He intervened in this matter and managed the Taif dwellers to sign a treaty. He intimated the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) about this new situation. When Taif came under the Islamic umbrella, Hazrat Mugheerah Bin Shoba (R.A.), who was a native of Taif, came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and told him: I seek your justice! My paternal aunt has been detained by Sakhr. She should be returned to me. The prophet (P.B.U.H.) ordered Sakhr to return her to Mugheerah (R.A.). Likewise some persons of Bani Saleem came to Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and complained that Sakhr has captured their land and streams. He 295

(P.B.U.H.) ordered Sakhr to return their properties to them and told: When a man comes under the Umbrella of Islam, he preferably deserves his land and property. If you cast a deep perspicacious glance on the friendship and relations, you shall conclude finally that the foundation of friendship and love is cemented by sincerity and mutual sympathy and co-operation. Please see what was our Prophet's behavior to his followers as a companion and friend? In one outing, the followers (R.A.) wanted to prepare the food and every person took the charge of one department. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) offered to cut down the wood from the jungle. The followers told: Our parents be sacrificed for you, please don't take any pain. We are enough to do any thing. The Prophet appreciated their respectful feeling for him and told: Allah does not like the person who magnifies himself. ECONOMICS:

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The Prophet (P.B.U.H.), stepping towards creating the solutions to the problems of labours, laid stress to pay out the wage of a labour before his sweat is dried out. Having deracinated the capitalistic mentality and system, he opened wide before the world, the door of peace, welfare and a high character. Among the ticklish problems created by the biased mammonites much to the Chagrin of the mankind, are the black marketing and hoarding. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has accounted those, who hoard the food grains and other consumer's goods for their exploitation on price hike, for a heavy responsibility. He (P.B.U.H.) said: sinners are those who hoard the food grains and other things to create a false scarcity. He (P.B.U.H.) also said: Allah showers His mercy on those who do not adopt a rigid stand in business and in demanding for the repayment of the loans.

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THE FRIEND It is narrated by Anas (R.A.) that a person was in the presence of Prophet (P.B.U.H.). A man passed by him. He told: O Prophet of Allah! I love him! The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) asked him if he had intimated him. When he answered him in negative, the Prophet ordered him to intimate him of his love. He chased him and told: I love you for the sake of Allah. for the sake of whom you love me. To establish the love and friendship on stable grounds and to make the relations purposeful and intact, you should take a keen interest in your friends affairs, and try your level best to solve their baffling problems,. The friendship also requires you to keep you in close touch with the family members of your friends and to regard them as your own family members. Don't forget the equanimity and balance in the friendship. Don't display the indifference that hurts the hearts of the exaggerated form of friendship that you are unable to

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maintain. The moderation is a sign of success and godspeed as the Hadith reads: "Love your friend slowly, he may turn one day your enemy. And hate your enemy slowly he may turn one day your friend." Don't underrate your friend, you should lift him as high as possible, pursuant to the principle of well-wishing and consolation. Our Prophet says: "The Religion is the well-wishing". If you are well-wisher for someone, you should love for him what you love for yourself, and it goes without saying that a man does not love for him but what is good.

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When a mention of "Religion" is made, an orthodox Muslim is adamantly insists that to follow the track of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) is the Religion of Islam, and that the biggest and simplest evidence in testimony of Prophet's love is that you should follow his track, because when you are not committed to do what is being done by your friend, it clearly indicates that your love is devoid of sincerity and depth. Moreover, the cardinal object, through following the sunnah, may not be confined to display and manifest the love, but every saying and action of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) should be followed. As quoted in Quran, the love of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) shall make us beloved to Allah: "Say (O Prophet): If you love Allah, follow me and then Allah shall love you and pardon for you your sins". In order to follow the Sunnah, you need not think lavishly. You should also keep into your mind that Sunnah is not synonymous 300

only to follow same acts in fragments. But you should make your way to the reality while performing the formal works and tenets. To elaborate this point, the prayer, Almsgiving, fasting and pilgrimage are the formal functions of Islam. If these functions or works are not compounded with the purification of heart and cleaning of the internals, the heart and internals may not be clean from impurity and dust and rust, and indeed, the purity of heart and the clarity of the internals are the elevators to the cognizance of Allah and a close approach to Him as they are the pinnacle for spiritual improvement and internal rectification. Allah says: "One who is hopeful of meeting his Lord, should indulge in good deeds and not making anyone partner in the worship of his Lord". None can pretend that phenomenon of "Meeting the Lord" shall be achieved by mere formal prayer, or the bondsman shall reach the abode of his Lord for the consideration of the formal prayer and rather physical exercise or apparent pursuit 301

of the Sunnah. No doubt that to reach the divine abode through following the Sunnah basically requires the cardiac peace which is not - but never - gettable without following the Prophet (P.B.U.H) in all his life behaviours. If we are gravely desirous of believing in the religion, and want to follow the Sunnah with pure intention, and hope really to meet our Lord, the Lord of universes and the friend of the Mercy of the world, we should involve ourselves fully in following the Sunnah completely, not by fragmentation. But it is highly deplorable that our stand towards the pursuit of Sunnah is quite ludicrous. We single out the easier and simpler Sunnah, and mingle some plain matters with the Sunnah and try to give an impression that the whole Sunnah, practiced by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.), are concentrated in what we are doing in the name of Sunnah. Here the question arises whether the pursuit of Sunnah is confined to the extent that we abstain from taking food on the table because our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) did not do 302

so? While we overlook the nature and the reason of his food. Likewise, we eschew to use the spoons, but we prefer the most delicious and posh dishes and garmendize them regardless of our brothers who are suffering from hunger and starvation as if they were not existing on this earth. If the trousers fall down the ankle, it is counted as a Major Sin, but there is no objection if our dress is highly foppish and splendid. Is it Islam that we maintain the prayers and go unleashed with the evils, and that we observe fast but our avarice and greed, fury and hot temper remain unchecked while the teachings of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) clearly are indicative of that the backbite of one person is enough to undo all the fast, prayer and ablution. Some Muslims beat a drum of following the Sunnah as if they were infatuated in the love of Prophet (P.B.U.H.), but when we cast a glance on their practical life, we are totally puzzled which Sunnah they are going to follow? When a mention of Prophet's house life is made, we find that his house contained a bed of straw mat and leather pillow, filled 303

with the leaves of palm tree. The number of the home utensils of Hazrat Ayesha never totaled more than seven. On contrary, when we take a look of our houses, we find them fully furnished with all the posh and luxurious amenities like Sofa sets, carpets, V.C.R. T.V. sets and a vast range of housewares. As such, why we are so disgraceful to mention the pursuit of Sunnah? By the grace of Allah, we are fortunate to find among us those bondsmen of Allah who continuously observe fast and Perform their prayers in time and they are much concerned to the pursuit of Sunnah. But few are they whose houses do not witness any incident against the will and temperament of Prophet (P.B.U.H.), few are they who are not exasperated when their temperament is hurt and who do not grow angry to their servants and who do not prefer themselves to their brothers in their choices, and who do not despise others following the vanity of their good deeds. This is the double standard which distracted the new generation from the religion. It is an 304

irony of fate that the Reformers have laid stress on the formal ties instead of stressing the need to create the internal virtues, Who is not cognizant of the fact that our predecessors were nearer to the formalities than to the real virtues, but we are falling much behind from those formalities. What we, the elders, say, our work does not conform to it. We like our new generation not to view T.V. and not to listen the songs and we also expect from them to follow the Sunnah as a token of Prophets' love, but our outer and inner life is contrary to what we expect from them. Therefore we find the young generation monotonous of the religion. We, the superannuated elders, should sacrifice our wishes to our religion. Otherwise, this ransacked convoy of Muslims may probably cease to exist. Come on! We stretch our feeble hands with this prayer: O myself: get up from your slumber and regain your consciousness, get rid of in cognizance of the truth and be cognizant of it. Why you do not recall that 305

sooner or later you have to stand in the court of the greatest judge where your inner record shall provide all the data of the deeds, you have exercised throughout your life. This is the record which has been dubbed by Allah as "Kitab Marqoom", and this record of Iliyeen and sijjeen incorporate our deeds and thoughts of every single second. O myself: when you will be brought before the supreme judge, your organs shall witness against you. You may cover in this world any of your ill-intended deed with your external virtuous deeds, but nothing shall remain clandestine to your Lord, and all the artificial curtains shall be rolled up. At that juncture, your deeds and actions themselves shall speak as such, you shall meet the due consequences of all that you have committed right or wrong. O my friends: Allah is the Most Merciful, Most benevolent, and He forgives the sins but the intentional shortcoming are inexcusable. so called pretenders of pursuit of Sunnah, pretensions have nothing to do. Allah shall not forgive those who are rigid to 306

comply with external Sunnah without any sincerity or originality and those who pretend to be the follower of Sunnah by adopting a few Sunnah out of prophet's whole life (P.B.U.H).

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After the initial period of Islam, arrived that time which was appointed by Allah for the supernal visit of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.). So Allah ordered the angels to dizen all the celestial tracks where our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was to pass by during this flight program. Ridhwan, the Commissioner of the paradise, was ordered to decor the paradise on par with the status and magnitude of the prophet (P.B.U.H.). While Gabriel was ordered to fetch the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) such aerial carrier which may be faster then the thunder and lighter than the moonlight. This was the superb background of his supernal trip when all the Divine Abode echoed with the Divine Inspirations. This Historic incident has been depicted by Quran as follows: "Glorified be He who carried his servant by night from the Al'Haram Mosque (Makkah) to the AlAqsa Mosque (Jerusalem), the neighboring area of which are blessed by us so as to show him our wonders." 308

This incident was narrated by our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) himself to his followers. His truth and rectitude were beyond any doubt. There are so many examples for speed and velocity like the super-sonic speed, speed of the light. planets and the vision etc. The incident of "Miraj" is a Beacon for the scientists. The man before 14 centuries never fancied about the stupendous speed of rockets and space shuttles. We also should think about the speed of human vision. As soon as the eye opened its pupil caught all this spacious world. Really incident "Miraj" is a model, or maxim or philosophy for the scientists and the common populace to conduct the space research. It was also a guideline for the invention of all aerovessels. The cardinal objective behind the annunciation of our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was call to Islam and propagation for it. Therefore He (P.B.U.H.) has invited all the universal brotherhood to Islam and declared that this existing universe stretching beyond our optical range neither was eternal nor shall remain eternal. 309

Only it is Allah who is everlasting and is unique with all senses of the word. He has partner neither in His entity nor in His attributes nor in His rights and discretions. The propagation and call to Islam unmask this fact that the belief in the life hereafter is the basic part of Islamic ideology and tenuous.

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Allah in Surah Anaam Says : "There is not an animal in the earth nor flying creature flying on two wings. but they are people like you". The birds, animals and insects are not affected by catarrh. cold or malaria and other diseases such as cough and consumption. Have you ever heard that a bird or pigeon suffered from cancer? The experiments of the scientists have no example for that a beast, living in the dense jungle, faced any psychical problem. No evidence can be produced to show that the Valve of a bird or animal choked. Seldom we observe the decrepitude in any animal family. Neither their teeth fall nor the lenses are fitted to their eyes. They remain active brisk till their end. Have we ever unleashed the rein of our thought to look into the cause?. Because this creature of Allah, having kinds and their members, out numbering the Human statistics, maintain a balanced diet, pure and unadulterated. They also have regular 311

physical exercises which are linked to their life directly. All these kinds are bound to a certain system of life, liable to certain changes and amendments as the predicaments require, Allah says: "Have you not seen that Allah is glorified by those who are in the skies and earth, and by the birds, arrayed. All have known their service and chanting". Those birds and animals are ill-fated who live in human meleiu because they are attacked by many a disease and malady due to the uncleanness and environmental pollution. The man, who is proud of being "The most honorable creature" has reached such a heinous point that he spits repeatedly where he wants, and keeps his surroundings permeated by garbage. Men's houses are squalid and in their lanes emanates the storm of filth. If you talk to them a gust of bad odour will welcome you. and if you have a physical contact with them the bad smell of the sweat shall penetrate your mind. The dry faced and dry hairs, which are the hot bed of the lices, provide all the evidence 312

to their least concern to cleanness and decency. O man. Look at the wild creatures. How clean and neat are their nests and hideouts. The cat digs the earth and gutters its filth there invisibly, thus this cat, co-existing our meleiu, imparts a lesson to maintain cleanliness and decency. Allah say: "And Shun the pollution". It is the identity of the living nations that they strictly adhere to the hygienic principles. On the contrary, those nations who are indifferent with the cleanliness and decency, they remain bereft of the consciousness of purity itself. They cease to have the whiteness of the birds' wings, the beauty of the animals' bodies and the gleam of their eyes. They turn colossal like rhinoceros, ugly like vulture and dormant and scared like owl. Allah addressed His Prophet saying:

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"O the decorer of the body with the cloak. Standup and warn (your people against the results of uncleanness). And magnify your Lord and clean and purify your costumes. And shun the pollution ( of all kinds )". As far as our stand is concerned, we are confident that our salvation is confined to the five-times prayers, and that we have nothing to do with other thousand religious orders as if they were not obligatory. O Muslim: See what a lowest ebb has reached the hygienic standard of the whole Muslim Nation due to the squalors, you disseminate. Each member of the nation appears sick. The faces of the innocent kids appear pale and dry. The squalid houses and the sick mentality have abated the prestige of Muslim Nation, and we are playing as tools in the hands of others and are subjugated to them as we deserted our social and cultural broad venues. How far we are subjugated due to our reluctance to the orders of Islam with regard to health and hygiene. So why we do not 314

think that our Prophet came in order to purify us from all the physical and spiritual impurities. Allah says: "(O Prophet:) This book is revealed to you so that you can pullout the people from the darkness ( of the worldly squalors) to the light ( of purity and decency )".

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Hazrat Amir (R.A.) visited Hazrat Omer (R.A.) in his house. He found him lying on a bed while the children were playing on his chest, Amir felt this scene very heavy. Hazrat Omer realized his reluctant feeling and asked him about his behavior with his children. Amir told: When I enter the house, every one is dumb founded. H. Omer told very gravely. Amir ! Even being a member of Mohammedens, you are not cognizant of the kind and complacent behavior to be shown towards the family. A child has to enjoy from his mother the right of milk, and this is the gratitude which Quran has reminded us of, while stressing the need to behave the mother in an extraordinarily pleasant way. The child is nurtured in his mother's belly by her blood. This lucidity means that the child adopts the same mentality and ideology that hover around the mind of the mother. So it is an ordained duty of a mother to instill in her 316

newborn the teaching of Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H.) with every drop of milk. and to pour in his body the love of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and his religion in such a way that the dignity of Allah and love of His Prophet (P.B.U.H.) are etched on his heart. The gusto and beatitude, realized by a mother after accomplishing her job very well, may be appreciated from those mother who train their children in a right direction. Avoid the inept handling of the children like frightening them because the fright of the initial age may extend to all the span of his life, and such frightened children come short in the life. The boys are scared by repeated interruptions and reproach for trivial reasons. On the contrary, through a benevolent behaviour with the children, the feeling of obedience emanates in them. Really the children are a support to their parents, a prestige to the family and an asset to all human being. The life of the parents may be likened to a sky, which keeps them under its blue umbrella. If they make some demand. it 317

should be conceded generously, and if they are dejected, their dejection should be dispelled. Don't be so insufferable burden on them that they get monotonous of your life and look after your premature demise, and keep you away from them in place of keeping you adherent to them. Carry your children in your lap, kiss them and pass your hand on their heads according to their age and rank. If the parents are rigid and strict. initially the boys get scared, then they begin to hate their parents. A sincere and profuse love leads them to self confidence and leave healthy hearings upon their natural growth. Don't lose your children and don't take them for a burden upon you. Don't link the financial paucity to the presence of your children. Allah says: "Don't kill your children for the fear of strait. We provide them and you both". In deed, your righteous children are the tools to keep up your cultural traditions, religious 318

teachings and the message of Monotheism, and the only inpetus for a believer behind his desire to be blessed with a good child is that his heir shall keep the message of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) alive. Don't count the shortcomings of your children in the presence of others and don't put them to shame. It is your responsibility to safeguard their self respect. Don't expose to them that you have given up the hope of their rectification, because this declaration either may result in their inferiority complex or lead to their fury, perturbation and obstinacy under the pretext that when they are unable to be rectified, it is better for them to be pertinacious in their bad habits. Naturally the boys are interested in stories and that stories occupy their minds. So you should narrate regularly to them the stories of the Prophets, Hajeological biographies and the salient deeds of the followers of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and the Muslim warriors, and rehear the same from them. Allocate for them a bit of your time despite your numerous engagement. When you find your children in a pleasant temperament, you 319

should describe to them that the prophet (P.B.U.H.) had passionate affection towards the children, and that his face was turning reddish, as a sign of delight, whenever he saw a child. Once happened that the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was kissing Hazrat Hassan (A.S.). A Bedouin was much astonished to see this, He told: Do you kiss? I have ten children but I never kissed any one. The impression of displeasure appeared on the face of prophet (P.B.U.H.) and He told: What I can do if Allah has driven off the mercy and pity from your heart? The Undue affection and love paves way for children to obduracy and arrogance. Try judiciously to put an end to this habit instead Of conceding their all due or undue demands. Allah does not like a loud and stentorian voice. Don't yell before the children in such a manner that they misconceive this odd behavior for a good habit. If the parents talk

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politely, the accent of the children shall tend automatically to be polite and sweet. Pursuade them to do their works with their own hands. The reliance on the servants creates in the children lethargy and dynamism, and they fail to rise to the occasions. Such boys are not generally industrious and hard working. Occasionally you should charge them to give the poorer and other miserable categories foods, money or clothes so that the sympathetic feeling towards the downtrodden may emanate in them. you should share them their food and fetch them the morsels. You should also advise them to do the same with their brothers and sisters. This habit shall strengthen in the children the consciousness of popular Rights and social justice. Allah has declared it obligatory to distribute honestly and the daughters ' shares among them. We are not authorized to subject their share to any minus or plus amendment. Any frustration or procrastination to give the 321

daughters their legitimate share is synonymous to treason and disrespect to the Divine Religion. The prayers of parents are accepted in favor of their children irrespective of their nature. It is the habit of parents to pray for their children from their deep hearts while Allah, the Merciful, the benevolent, does not undo any prayer, emanating from the depth of the heart.

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to Islam and propagation for it is a religious job, devolved upon us from our Prophet(P.B.U.H.), so you should be very particular about the propagational method. It should be based on tactical precision, pertinent by any angle, and time bound and serene. You should negotiate your addressee according to his mental capacity and instigate the people for the feelings of gracious presumption, well-wishing and sincerity and put an end to the obstinacy, fanatism and hatred. Don't emphasize in your speech and writings on the warning and don't depict the torment to disappoint the people from the Divine mercy that envelope all the universe and that is the axis around which revolves the existence of all the creatures. It is also obligatory for us to address ourselves first of all about what we are going to present to others, and to hanker after those facts, to the acceptance of which we string the salvation of the world. As regards 323

our individual works, private relations, moral affairs and attachment to Allah, we should prove in this connection that we have set ourselves example for what we say. During his Supernal Visit, our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) observed some people in drastic punishment, so He asked Gabriel: Who are they? Gabriel told: They are preachers of your Ummah who advised the people for piety and forgot themselves. The most effective medium for seeking the pleasure of Allah and calling others to His right Path, is the sincere philanthropic activity, based on sheer human values and feeling of sincerity, love and mutual sympathy, not on requital and cheep and trite bargaining. To maintain a friendly and amicable relation with the creature of Allah and to serve them as they are the servants of Allah are the best way to secure the pleasure of Allah.

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Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) depicted the happy reunion of two friends as follows : One man walked to visit hi friend in another village. Allah appointed an angel on his track. When he came there, the Angel asked him about his destination. He told that he was going to meet his brother in this Country. The AngeI again asked if he was going to be rewarded for some benefaction. He told very categorically : No ! I am going to meet him only because I love him for the sake of Allah. Then the angel told : I am a messenger of God to you to inform you that He loves you as you love your friend for the sake Of Him. Another tradition of Prophet (P.B.U.H.) says that on Dooms Day, when there wilt be no shadow save the shadow of Allah, seven categories of persons will be covered under that shadow and among them will be those two men, the friendship of whom based on Divine pleasure which Shall be for them the point of meeting and departing. In other 325

words, their love will be for the sake of Allah. Hence they shall try their level best to maintain their love till the last breath, and when any one of them will be leaving this world, he shall leave his friend while their friendship remains unfastened. One night Allah offered the Prophet (P.B.U.H) to ask some thing and he responded as follows: "O Allah : I ask you to adopt virtues and the indecencies and love the poorer. To pardon me and commiserate me. When you want trail of your bondsmen, I ask you to call me to you unruffled. I ask your love and the love of those who love you, and of such work which makes me closer to you."

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Prophet (P.B.U.H.), who was a lucid manifestation Of the Benign Traits, and was occupying the highest rank of humanitycompletion, never liked the concentration or accretion of the wealth, but always distributed it for human cause. No needy returned from him empty-handed. when he found nothing to give to the needy, he mortgaged his home utensils to co-operate with him. Till his last breath, the Prophet Continued to patronize the orphans, widows and needy people. When he married Hazrat khadiJa (R.A.) and owned her property, he distributed every thing, within few days, among the poorer. This is why Hazrat Khadija (R.A.) Consoled him when he was naturally perplexed in the wake of the first revelation. "Don't worry: ALlah will not leave you alone as you care for the orphans and patronize the widows". The Prophet (P.B.U.H) was least concerned to money saving. If he got a Dirham in the 327

morning, it was not left un-spent till the evening He (P.B.U.H) advised Abu Dhar Ghifari (R.A.) with the following golden words: "O Abu Dhar I do not like that I have gold as much as Ohud Mountain and anything is left unspent till the third day. Save the amount which is reserved to repay the loans. I shall advise to distribute all that gold among the servants of God in all the directions". Once the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) recited the verse " ALHAKUMUT TAKATHUR" (You are delighted with financial race) and told: The man repeatedly says: my money! Your money is only what you ate so you consumed it, or what you put on so you wore it out". Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also said : "O man ! If you spend, it is better for you, and if you hold, it is worse for you". Hazrat Abu Sayeed Khudri narrates that the Prophet (P.B.U.H) said :

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"One who has extra camel, he should grant it one who has no carrier. And one who has supererogatory provision, he should grant it one who has no provision". Hazrat Abu sayeed said: The Prophet (P.B.U.H) continued to mention one item to another till we realized that we have no legitimate right in any thing more than our requirement." This kind of Prophet's education assisted to the formation of such a society whose members were co-operative and sympathetic to each other and were seizing the chance to spend in the way of Allah and take their money to those who were worthy of support.

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How fantastic is the case of a believer : He is the winner in any circumstances. If he suffers from any ailment, agony or poverty and withstands them, he is rewarded for his patience. And when he is blessed With weal and prosperity, and he expresses his gratitude for this, they pave way for him to a better future. Indeed, the baffling situations and tough travails sharpen the man's mind and makes him the philosopher's stone. The stand of a believer toward any accident is to surrender to the will and volition of Allah. When Ibrahim, the son of our Prophet (P.B.U.H) was in the agonies of death, he kept him close in his lap. Naturally his eyes brimmed with tears and he told : O Ibrahim ! we are sad for your departure, but we shall utter only what may please Allah. In the life of a believer, what a vital role plays the quest of Divine pleasure, it may be 330

appreciated by the following prayer of the Prophet (P.B.U.H): "O Allah keep me alive as long as the life is better for me and send me death when the death becomes better for me ". The prophet (P.B.U.H) said : The prayer, which Younus (A.S.) Chanted in the belly of the fish was : "There is no God save you : glorified be you : I was the wrong-doer". So when a Muslim recites this prayer in any hardship, his prayer is accepted by Allah. The line of Demarcation between a Muslim and Disbeliever is that the latter is demoralized when he falls in a crucial situation. Sometimes he commits suicide surrendering to his travails. The Believer, on the contrary, rises to all the occasions and withstands any calamity with restraint and prowess like an invincible rock. He takes the better of any situation, returning it to the will of Allah. 331

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personal identity of any man is constituted when he is awake. Every child is Created in the supernal Universe, free from all the impurities. When he comes to know that he has been thrown from a luminous world into another world where the life is full of shackles and fetters, he bursts into yell. In other words, every new-born declares that the new life is not what he was longing for, and that, he was much perturbed to be confined there. To get rid of this agony, our prophet (P.B.U.H) prescribed the following remedy : "The new-born will be administered bath, and the adhan will be Uttered in his right ear and the IQAMATH in his left ear. " And the philosophy behind the utterance of Adhan and Iqamath in ears of the newborn the moment he is born is that the first ever thing to cross his ears be the sound of Divine Glorification so that he may stand as pattern for coming under the umbrella of 332

Islam when he is matured and Utters the Islamic Doctrines. The second phase after birth is the phase of name selection. In deed, the name is a document which does not accept any change though the infant may undergo a complete physical change. This obviously indicates that the name is the only way to identify a person. When we fix a name for an infant, one more pattern emanates in his mind. This new pattern determines for him a course in his conscious life. This is why our Prophet laid emphasis on the selection of pretty, smart and meaningful names because the impact of the name shall go a long way in the future life of the boy. The assistance of the devout and sacred elders may be sought in the selection of a name so that the mind may shift to the selector along with the good meaning of the name.

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The man is by nature inclined to accumulate the wealth. That is why Quran said : "The man is very strong in hankering after the wealth". The man pretends that his heaped-up wealth secures his requirement, therefore he pines away in the way of saving more and more. This pretension comes as an incentive to join the monetary race till his last breath, and during this race, he is least concerned with the rights of big brothers. The precious store of the energies, conferred upon him by the nature for some other purpose is exhausted in plutolatry. The man pretends that all his earning is due to his manual power and therefore he is at liberty to spend it as and where he desires, quite undeterred. This is the ideology which gives rise in the man to arrogance and when this arrogance turns to be a colossal tree, he is mentally detached from Allah and makes his entry in the progeny of Qaroon. 334

And in order to minimize the importance of the wealth in respect of the believers and to realize them of the Divine bounties, the Quranic Verses hither and thither encourage the believers to declare their wealth open for all needy persons. They have been tried by several means to learn that to spend in the way of Allah from his well-gotten property is akin to express the gratitude for Allah. in this subject, the emphasis has been laid to the extent that Allah declared : "You shall not obtain .the good unless and until you spend from what you like". Quran has presented a very broad spectrum for charitable expenditures where it says : "They ask you (O Prophet) what to spend (in the name of Allah) Say: What is above your need". In the light of these Divine Commandments, you have to spend more and more in the service of the creature of Allah, starting right from your needy relative then including other needy people too. 335

Keep in your mind very strictly that all that you spend should be for the pleasure of Allah, not for any biased purpose, reward or publicity. Assist the needy clandestinely so that you keep yourselves away from any vanity or superiority feeling and so that you do not hurt the self-respect of your donee. Don't repeat the mention of your kind deed before your donee and don't display it. Allah says: "O those who believe: Don't undo your charities by reproach and injury." If some one asks you, don't injure him. If you have nothing to give, apologize in appropriate words and suitable tone because Quran's order in this respect is quite unequivocal : "As regards the beggar, don't drive him away". Our prophet (P.B.U.H) was most distinguished in generosity and lending a hand to the poorer. The followers were of the unanimous opinion that they never saw 336

more generous than the prophet (P.B.U.H). His attitude and presentation of the practical example laid foundation of such a society where the people were anxiously waiting to seize the chance of spending in the way of Allah. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H) was so generous that no needy returned from his door empty-handed. When he found nothing to spare, he borrowed from others and gave the needy. Since pre-revelation period, he used to support the orphans, widows and poorer. That is why Hazrat Khadijah (R.A.) consoled him with the following words when he got perturbed to some extent in the wake of the first revelation. "Don't worry ! Allah will not leave you alone as you care For the Orphans and patronize the widows". The history provides the evidence that when Prophet (P.B.U.H) married Hazrat Khadijah (R.A.) who was a wealthy lady of that time, and when all her wealth and property devolved upon him as heir, He spent every thing in the way of Allah. He spent every thing in the way of Allah. 337

The followers of the Prophet(P.B.U.H) followed the same tradition which was left for all mankind. Therefore Quran says: "They prefer (others) to themselves though they are poverty-stricken". The Prophet (P.B.U.H) instilled by all means to keep the wealth open in the way of Allah. Once He said: "The man repeatedly says : My money; Your money is only what you ate so you consumed it, or what you put on so you wore it out. " He (P.B.U.H) also said : "O man : If you spend, it is better for you, and if you hold, it is worse for you." Therefore, it is obligatory on our part to spend, as directed by our Prophet (P.B.U.H) orally and practically. our earnings for the welfare of His bondsmen so that our identity may be improved and the devil of uneven and unjust economic may be ensnared. Our 338

Prophet was always averse to the concentration of the wealth, and had been advocating for its donation to the needy. Hazrat Abu Sayeed Khudri(R.A.) narrates that Prophet (P.B.U.H) said : " One who has extra camel, he should grant it one who has no and one who has supererogatory provision, he should grant it to one who has no provision." Hazrat Abu Sayeed (R.A.) said : The Prophet (P.B.U.H) continued to mention one item to another till we realized that we have no legitimate right in any thing, more than our requirement.

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real place For the acid Test of good behavior, courtesy and commiseration is Your house where you love your family members and like your domination prevail over them too for their proper training and education. The man unmasks the perdu aspects of his life in the home environment which is far from mannerism. Indeed, one who deals amicably with his family members, giving every one his due position, is a true lenient and courteous person. Hazrat Ayeshah (R.A.) gives an account of her experiment with the Prophet (P.B.U.H) as follows : "During the life of Prophet (P.B.U.H), I was playing with my girl friends. when the Prophet was to arrive. they all hide themselves. The prophet was tracing out each of them and was despatching them to play with me." As the Prophet (P.B.U.H) was engaged outside with the expedition of religious 340

propagation, likewise he was very prompt to fulfill his duty within his home too. The Holy Quran addresses his modest wives : "And remember those Divine verses and the wisdom that are recited in your houses." Allah has guided the believer. through His Prophet (P.B.U.H) as follows "Order your family members to the service and be yourself firm on it. " The Prophet (P.B.U.H) also said : "When a man awakens his wife in mid night and both of them offer two rounds of the service, both of them are enlisted in those who remember Allah. "

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the spiritual kingdom, the night is instrumental for the perception of invisibles. Allah gives His directives to His beloved Prophet as follows: "O the rug clad; wake up in the night. and recite the Quran in a methodical way." Allah also said : "Glorified be the He who carried his servant by night from the AL-Haram Mosque to the Aqsa Mosque." Allah also said : "And we appointed for Moosa thirty nights and complemented them with ten." He also Said: "We revealed it (The Quran) in the night of prestige. And what appraised you what is the night of prestige. The night of prestige is better than a thousand month. The angels and Rooh AlQudus descend therein by the permission of their 342

Lord with all decrees (this) is peace. It is until the rising or the dawn." The night service and meditation in the last part of the night are must for total detachment. The hallmarks of the bondsmen Of Allah, as described by Allah, is that they wake up in the dormant night and bow their heads to the Divine Abode. They genuflect and seek the pardon of Allah for their sins and lapses. The night vigilantes are blessed with peace and tranquillity and the happenings are revealed to them and they go in true dreams. The Prophet (P.B.U.H) Said : The Prophet hood is over. There is neither prophet nor messenger after me. when they felt uneasy, he added : Save the Harbingers. They asked what were the Harbingers? The Prophet answered : The true dream. Hazrat Mohammed Ali Mongeri once asked Hazrat Fazl Rahman Gunj Muradabadi to point out some recipe of Salath through which he can see in dream the Prophet (P.B.U.H.).

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After some contemplation, he answered: Hazrat Syed Hassan (R.A.) was blessed with such an auspicious dream through the following Salath: "O Allah : shower the blessing upon Mohammad and his family members as many as your knowledge." The Prophet said: "Who looked at me in the dream, it is quite true because the Devil may not adopt my shape." And Allah says : "Verily Allah and His angels shower blessing on the Prophet. O those who believed : Ask for blessing on him and salute respectfully."

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On the Day of Resurrection Allah shall say : O man : I felt sick and you didn't visit me. The man will be surprised and will say: How could I visit you while you are the Lord of the Universe? Allah shall say: Didn't you come to know that my so and so servant fell sick and you didn't visit him? Had you gone there, you could have found me there. The Prophet said : A man has six rights towards his fellows; The people asked : O Prophet of Allah: what are those rights? He (P.B.U.H) answered : Salute your Muslim fellow when you come across him, accept his invitation when he invites you, be his well-wisher when he consult you. respond to his sneeze when he says " All the praise be to Allah", visit him when he falls sick and attend his last funeral when he is expired. " Ayesha Bint Sad (R.A.) narrates that her father narrated to her that he once fell sick 345

badly in Makkah when the Prophet visited him he asked : O Prophet of Allah: I am leaving enormous wealth and property while I am to be survived by only one daughter; As such, may I make will in two third of my wealth and leave the residue for the daughter. The Prophet did not allow him to do so. Then he sought the permission for one third. The Prophet (P.B.U.H) told : yes, you can make will this much, and one third is much. Then the Prophet placed his hand on his forehead and passed it by his face and stomach and prayed : O Allah: Cure Sad and complement his exodus. Sad (R.A.) says : Yet I feel his cool hand on my chest. The Prophet (P.B.U.H)) expressed the importance and ponderosity of the popular rights through the following dialogue: "On the day of resurrection, Allah shall say: O man: I felt sick and you didn't visit me? The man will be surprised and say: How could I visit you while you are the Lord of the universe? Allah shall say: didn't you come to know that my so and so servant fell sick and you didn't visit him?

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Had you gone there, you could have found me there. O man! I asked you food and you didn't feed me? The man will be surprised and say: How could I feed you while you are the Lord of the universe? Allah shall say: didn't you come to know that my so and so servant asked you food and you didn't feed him. Had you fed him you could have found me there. O man : I asked you water and you didn't fetch me water. The man will be surprised and say: How could I fetch you water while you are the Lord of the universe? Allah shall say: Didn't you come to know that my so and so servant asked you water and you didn't fetch him water. Had you fetched him water, you could have found me there." Hence any lapse in Divine Rights is remissible because Allah is indifferent with their works, but as regard the popular Rights, we can't get the mooring of salvation if we have teased the bondsmen of Allah or have usurbed their rights. Therefore, the

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Prophet (P.B.U.H.) once addressed the people saying: Do you know who is the bankrupt? The people replied: O Prophet of Allah! The bankrupt among us is one who has no property. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) explained: The bankrupt or pauper among my nation is one who shall come on Dooms Day with mammoth stock of prayers, alms, fasts and what not. But he might have abused someone in this world, have accused some other, have snatched the property of some one, have killed some one and have belabored some one. So all his venture shall be transferred to his victims. thus all his ventures will come to an end Finally other's evils will be inducted into his account and eventually he will be thrown in the hell.

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have a friend, highly sincere and obsequious. His heart is kindled with love and we too realize his warmth. When we feel secluded, his memories add colour to our life and when we fall sick he concern to us, induces us to make our life denova. When we are entangled in some problem, he salvages us from it. When this our friend is certified by some one, it comes very heavy to us. In a nutshell, when a person is certified within his personal limits, it is remissible, but when a friend is thrashed orally, it is quite intolerable. The hearts of the friends of Allah are the burning lamps of sincerity, sacrifice, love and affection. They are such friends of Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H.) who are loved by Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H.). The Prophet has categorically said that the enemy of the friends of Allah are the enemy of Allah and His Prophet (P.B.U.H.) The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said : who has hostile attitude towards the friends of Allah, he 349

defies him for a war. Verily Allah likes the devout, pious and unnoticed persons who are not mentioned if they disappeared and not addressed by any one if they appeared, though their hearts are the beacons of the guidance. Another tradition says: "Seek me in your weaker section because you are not provided and supported but due to your weaker section." This means : The poorer are my friends and I enjoy their company, and you are provided with the bounties of Allah due to them. Once some Arab Dignitaries made representation to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) to drive away the wretched SUFFAH occupants, so that, they come to him ' with no hesitation ' to learn something. Because the Allah is omniscient, He knew this proposal and ordered the Prophet not to comply with their suggestions:

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"( O Muhammad) Don't drive away those who call their Lord day and night. seeking His pleasure. You have nothing to do with their account and they have nothing to do with your account, so you drive them away and be counted among wrong-goers." The point of consideration is that : had the Prophet agreed to remove the poorer occasionally, the dignitaries could have embraced Islam, but Allah did not like the insult and derogation of His friends.

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confers the religious sapience upon the person for whom He intends some benefit." The opinions are indivisible about the fact that the zero-erroneous comprehension of the religion and deep understanding of its extrinsic and intrinsic philosophy are the influx of every good, wisdom and success. The person, bereft of His bounty, loses the concordance and equanimity in his life. Such a man is a prey to imbalance in every Sphere of life. "

Unless you hold yourself on the right path, you can't have your impact on the others. Therefore, you should make a complete entry into Islam and display yourself a fine example of what you are going to preach before the people. The message should be peremptorily heralded to yourself. Be practical in all such matters you are going to preach others with. The most distinct feature of the religion is that it remains a true example of the message to be passed and that the Preacher's saying is not disintegrated from his action and behavior 352

and that he always tends to execute such works that are conducive to the betterment of the mankind. So please constitute, through your Speech and writing, your individual life, private relations, matrimonial affairs and spiritual upheavals, such an atmosphere that may come as beacon light to the mankind. and the people may join that pattern of life in multitudes. Unblemished character, mental tranquillity and Spiritual values are instrumental to the formation of our ideal society. A system, constituted of the balanced values, is based upon the justice and it gives birth to such a culture, before adopters of which prostrate the angels, and who hold the rein of the world as the Caliph of Allah on the earth. Please remember: those who talk of others' reformation, over-looking their own's, they remain always Empty-handed here and there. They may be likened to a person whose house is set ablaze, and he is wandering in the streets with a bucket of

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water in his hand, in the quest of any burning house. Beware: such people are losers in both the worlds, while it is a fact that "it is most indignant for Allah that you utter what you do not do." Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has warned the nonpractical preachers against a severe torment.

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Allah is greatest!

Allah is greatest: There is no God save Allah, and Allah is Greatest, Allah is greatest, and for Allah is the praise". "

After exodus, when the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) arrived at Madina Munawwarah, there were two days appointed by the populace of Madina for amusement and recreation. the Prophet inquired about those days, and When he was informed that those two days were determined, in Pre-Islamic period, for amusement, He told : Allah has replaced you two better days. The Eidul Fitr Festival Day and the Eidul Adhaha festival Day. He (P.B.U.H.) added: On the festival Day, the Angels wait in the way of prayer-course and call loudly: O Muslim Ummah: Walk to your Lord, the generous, the Benign! who rewards you: You were ordered for the Nocturne so you complied with, and you were ordered to observe fast so you obeyed your Lord. Now the time is ripe to get the reward. 355

And when they end the Eid Prayer, the Angels Proclaim : Lo! You have been rewarded by your Lord and you are retreating back to your Houses successfully. The Eidul fitr festival is a day to celebrate the victory of a very magnificent Mission. It is but the profuse bounty of our Benign Lord that He conferred on us the endless gaiety and happiness on the first Shawwal through His beloved Prophet (P.B.U.H.), while the same month is remembered for the destruction and deracination of the pervious nations. It is narrated by Hazrat Ali (K.W.) that the folks of Hazrat Noah (A.S.) were inundated on the first of Shawwal. The day when the folks of Loot were meted by torment was the first of Shawwal. Pharaoh was drowned along with his troops in the sea on Tuesday which coincidentally the first of Shawwal. The same case was with the folks of Aad who were destroyed on Wednesday. Folks of Saleh were hit by the torture during Shawwal month. 356

It. was a festive day of Eidul Fitr. Since early morning, the Muslims were engaged with the preparation for their sacred festival. The atmosphere Of Madina was marked with gaiety and fervor. As the time of prayer was ticking by, the people started to walk to the prayer course in their best costumes. The boys were busy with their merriment in the near by play ground. The whole atmosphere had turned highly gleeful and aromatic. The Eid prayer was over and the boys began to return to their homes joyfully. When the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) attempted to return, He was stopped by the sight of a wretched boy who was secluded in the ground, with the tears streaking his cheeks. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) approached him, passed his hand on his head gently and asked him about the reason of his tears. The boy was highly angry, so he asked the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) to leave him alone. But the prophet. (P.B.U.H.) pacified him very compassionately and repeated the question. Then the boy very deliriously narrated his sad story :

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"O Prophet (P.B.U.H.)! My father has got martyrdom in a battle and my mother has remarried, and her new husband has shown me the door out. All my legacy has been snatched by others. To-day when all my colleagues are making merry of new costumes and delicious foods, I have no food, no cloth and no shelter. That is why I am weeping. The pathetic story of the boy filled the eye of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) with tears. He asked the boy with a broad smile: will it make you happy that I be your father, Ayesha be your mother and Fatima be your sister? The boy nodded positively and accompanied the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) to his house. He (P.B.U.H.) called Ayesha (R.A.) and told her : Receive this your child. Hazrat Ayesha arranged his bath, new dressing and food and told him:; My boy! Go out and play with the children and return to the home after some time.

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The Holy Quran has made obligatory on the part of every Muslim to think and research. So it is the duty of a conscious Muslim to be conversant with the Universal mechanism because it is akin to the contemplation on the Divine verses. Of course, the observation of the Scientific facts, following the contemplation of Divine verses, leads the thinker to believe in Allah. The following traditions lay a good deal of emphasis on the knowledge and research: 1. Obtain the knowledge whenever you find it. 2. A Clairvoyant saying is the lost asset of a believer, so he should take it wherever it is available. 3. Contemplation of one hour is better than the hardship of six decades. 4.

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The knowledge is the life of Islam and pillar of religion.

lt. is the duty of every male and female Muslim to acquire the knowledge, so you should seek the knowledge though it is in China.

Hence, one who wants to dip his hands in worldly benefits, he should seek the knowledge, and, one Who want to secure the boons of the life hereafter, he too should seek the knowledge. The judicious and sagacious instructions of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) had a very positive impact on his followers (R.A.) they thoroughly applied themselves for the obtainment of knowledge and erudition and got them from all the possible hideouts. Their superiority in the knowledge made them the pioneers of science and Arts. The Muslims did not lay the foundation of their knowledge on superstitions or the erroneous presumptions or speculations, but they produced the latest scientific research in every field, based on their vast experience 360

and keen observation. This resulted that in Muslim families were born so many physicians and astrologists and other scientists, the prominents among them are Jaber Al-farabi, Zakriya Al-Razi, Avecenna, Khuworzami, Omer Khayyam, Naseeruddin Toosi, Abdul Hassan, Ibn Mohammed AlQazweeni, Fakhruddin Razi, abul Qasim AlBairooni, Ibn Khaldoun, Imam Ghazali etc. They added new chapters to Science and Arts with their onerous dedication. All these correspond to the period when whole Europe was enshrouded in superstitions. The credit goes to the Muslim Scientists for the invention of Mariner's Compass, gun powder and paper. They were the first to attempt to aviate and shine the stones to a mirror. They were inventors of telescope and watermill in addition to the Braille to enable the blinds to read, Algebra, geometry and trigonometry. They prepared the list of stars and their shape and charts. they did the menstruation of all degrees of the Globe and discovered its circumference. Likewise they designed Aqua-solar watches and invented the pendulum to measure the time. They introduced the printing technology and 361

brought about a revolution in Medicine and surgery and allied branches. The sapient instructions of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) were etched so deep in the hearth of the Muslims that they counted the knowledge their asset and property and used to acquire it wherever it was possible. Thousands of Muslim experts added new dimensions to the knowledge balance of the mankind. Going through the writings of those eminent authors, every educated person of this Century catches one distinct mark, and it is non availability of any contradiction to the Islam teaching throughout their scientific research, and no conflict is noticeable there. When the fame of these versatile Muslim authors spread all over the World, it came as an impetus for the establishment of Universities in the countries far away from the Muslim Countries. The qualified Circles in Paris, Oxford, Italy and western Europe were highly impressed by the Arab Scientists. To-day when the unbiased thinner ponders over the creation of the Universe and the 362

secrets, latent therein, and links the thread of his thinking to the verses of the Holy Quran, he is faced by only one fact that science is a characteristic of the man by birth, and indeed when a thinker determines the correct position of science, he becomes cognizant of the fact that science is actually an undoubted link-road to the realities of creation and domination, life and death and all the relevant secrets. The Holy Quran has very clearly mentioned that Allah made Adam His viceroy and taught him all the science. Here viceroy ship means the utilization of special Divine Authorities. The question of such utilization does not arise till the cognizance of the rules and regulations regarding the utilization of these authorities. the purpose behind teaching Adam Science (The Names) was to train him how the authorities are to be used. To sum up, Adam was made cognizant of science of universe Domination or subjection so that this Special Cognizance may be instrumental for him to control the universe. From scientific viewpoint, the knowledge of Science is the knowledge of the universe (cosmography). The cardinal object of the 363

Science is the knowledge is to make a search about and their quantities, all of them moving very systematically, and it is the movement which keeps a thing alive. From the scientific viewpoint, the function of science is to conquer all powers of the universe and to utilize the treasures of earth and skies. In the Holy Quran Allah said that he brought down the iron, which has lot of benefits for the people. When we think about the scientific benefits of the iron for human being, we conclude that every scientific invention has direct or indirect relevance to the iron. The iron has emerged a very important component in railways, airplanes, wireless system and in every scientific breakthrough. Thus the man is benefiting himself a lot through the iron as declared by Allah. When we think about the conscious angles right from Adam till now, we are convinced to see that every function of the man is more or less a science and that the scientific function guarantees the accomplishment of all human needs. All the human trades like industries, handicrafts, construction and machines are the result of a scientific function (research and development). The 364

study in the holy Quran provides us with the fact that the practical science has reached us through several things. For instance, we learnt the farming and cultivation through Adam, the ship building through Noah, the iron industries through Dawood, the medicine through Christ and the wireless system through Solomon (Peace be upon all of them). Once Europe was bereft of knowledge, and was thickly covered under the darkness of illiteracy, and because the Muslims were strictly adherent to the teachings of their last Prophet (P.B.U.H.), they distinguished themselves as a nation. On the contrary , as soon as they swerved from the path of research and development in the light of their Prophet's teachings, they immersed individually and collectively in the deep trench of illiteracy, while the nation, which adhered to the acquisition of knowledge and scientific development, they topped all the nations. And this is the Divine Law as Allah says in the Holy Quran! Allah does not bring a change to the condition of the nation until

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they bring change to what they are involved in. So it is the crying need of the time that we should change ourselves from remaining idiot and good-for-nothing children to righteous and wordy ones and enable ourselves for the heritage, left by our predecessors so that we can salvage ourselves from the precipices of the gloom. Our Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has truly said that the contemplation of one hour is better than the worship of six decades, and that it was the duty of every male and female Muslim to acquire the knowledge, so you should seek the knowledge though it is in china.

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malign your national prestige by demoralizing yourself against the turmoils and hostile attitudes of your opponents and bowing your head before the tyrants, are really the Symbols of inferiority complex and self-contempt. Therefore you should spot what is your weak point that encouraged your enemy to knock you down and disrespect your national identity. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has epitomized all these in two things: 1.

Lust after the world.

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A perfect identity of a Muslim is that he never tolerates any lapse in supporting the truth irrespective of the adverse situation, and he never swerves from the right path even in the travails. He smiles in the face of the death and sips the cup of death very fervently if such a chance comes to him.

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Fight those social maladies which fill the sky of society with the black patches of terror and scare, and the nation ultimately surrenders to the enemy. Ibne Abbas says: Any populace, going ahead with perfidy and betrayal, will be intimidated and frazzled by their enemy, and society, where parsimonious weight and food adulteration shall prevail, will be inevitably caught by famine, and where injustice will be allowed, wanton bloodshed will be seen there, and a perfidious nation will necessarily fall under the cruel domination of their enemies. In case, the terror and scare prevail upon you, you should keep yourself upright and chant the following prayer, and you shall peremptorily get rid of all the fears and shall restore the peace and tranquillity. One person came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and told that he was constantly frightened. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) advised him to recite the following prayer. He complied with, and was free Of all shackles :

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"Glorified be Allah, the king, the Most Holy, Lord of the Angels and Roohul Qudus: you have covered the skies and earth with your authority and supremacy. " If Muslims in any region are cordoned unfortunately by their enemies, they should repeat the following prayer in each postprayer session : "O Allah: Cover our weak spots and secure us from the scare."

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When Allah created Adam, He ordered him to go to a Group of Angels and to salute them, and to memorize the words, responded by the Angels as that response shall remain a prayer for his ensuring generations. Adam reached that group of Angels and saluted them saying: "Peace be upon you " The Angels responded: " Upon you too be the peace and mercy of Allah". The Holy Quran denotes that the Angels offer salute when they pluck out the souls of the believers. " Those whom the Angels cause to die while they are good. they say : Peace be upon you : Enter the paradise in consideration of what you had done." And when these pious persons approach the gate of the Paradise, they will be welcomed with same style by the in-charge gate-keeper: 370

"And those who fear their Lord will be led to the Paradise group-wise so that when they shall reach it, and its gates opened, its custodians shall say to them: Peace be upon you, you are good, so enter it for good." "The Angels enter upon them from every gate (and say): peace be upon you because you performed perseverance. So how pleasant is the last Home." Even the paradise-occupants felicitate each other with the following words: "Their salutation when they shall meet Him will be: Peace." Every son of Adam is your brother. I am your brother and you are my brother. She is my sister and T am her brother. Among all these brothers and sisters, you should prefer the relatives, but it does not mean that we have no human right to fulfill. Despite every family, every brotherhood, every country and every nation, each man has some right for other men. That right is that we should 371

call our brothers and sisters from Adam, to the truth, you should take the initiative in salutation of one who accepts this call of truth irrespective of his color, race or language, and regardless of your prior introduction to him Likewise you should salute your House-dwellers while making your entry therein. It is natural that when two persons meet, they exchange their views with each other. Before starting the talk, if you, keep in your mind that you have to repeat to your addressee such words that may gladden him and open up his closed mind, that person shall feel peaceful and shall turn to be lenient and courteous while conversing. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has guided the mankind to exhibit the feeling of gaiety and felicitation on joint-meeting. The best way of it is to pray for each other and to wish the best. So one has to say: Peace be upon you, and the other has to respond upon you too be the peace.

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this exchange of prayer strengthens the mutual tie of love and friendship. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has said: "You can't enter the paradise until you believe, and you can't believe until you love each other and popularize the salutation (SALAAM) among you." When you come across your brother, relative or friend, and salute them, it means that your prayer has emanated from deep heart that Allah may secure their souls and property, and protect their houses, and guard them along with their kids and kins, and that their life in both the worlds may be happy and lustrous, and that Allah may confer upon his brother, relative and friend these boons that are known to him and those that are unknown to him. When a brother salute other, he really intends to say: O my brother! My heart is fraught with boisterous feeling of love, sincerity, peace and security, thereafter you should not be suspicious of me. My no attitude shall harm you. If the words "peace 373

be upon you" is uttered in the real letter and spirit, the feelings of love, solidarity and loyalty shall emanate in your addressee. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.), the real cause behind the creation of the universe, said: "Salaam, is one of the name of Allah who caused it to come down on the earth, so you should spread it among you."

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propagation of Islam always has involved two ways : The first one is that the man should negotiate his addressee according to his mental capabilities, and should win his heart with his moral power, and take care of his needs and solve his problems as if they were his own ones. As far as the other way is concerned, it is to communicate your ideas to others through essays and speeches, keeping in view that this one is an age of writing and speaking, and all the distances have shrunk, or rather, have converged. The expansion of the earth has been reduced to a globe. With a sonic viewpoint, the distance between U.S. and Karachi is less than that of a room. To cast a news over London and U.S. from Karachi has been a daily routine. The same thing is going with the writing. There is a vast cluster of publication. A passage, typed in U.S. or in any other overseas country, is legible in Karachi or Islamabad as if the same was being typed in Karachi or Islamabad. 375

The writing leaves on the reader such an impact that cultivates the intellectual nuclei of the mind which turn souring trees. Therefore you should maintain equanimity and restraint in your writing and speech using an optimistic phraseology, and avoiding a pessimistic and menacing method which makes a reader or listener despondent of Divine mercy and totally confused about his reformation or salvation. Please use in your writing the encouraging words and present such an idea of Divine Love that may replace the scare with regard and respect so that he may accept the Divine Mercy with all his respect to the Donor. Hazrat Ali (R.A.) says: " The best scholars are those who invite to Divine path in such a way which does not ward off the invitees from the threshold of Allah, and who do not present such image of Allah for disobedience." You have to participate permanently in the propagation of Islam and dissemination of Divine knowledge though on a small scale and to call the mankind to exploit their internal talents, and to welcome 376

wholeheartedly all the difficulties and hardships, waiting for you in this way, as the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) said: " The dearest work to Allah is that lasts for long though it is meager."

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ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GOALS

This incident dates back to the period when the dictators were applying insufferable tortures to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) and his ardent followers. Hazrat khabab narrates: We came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) while he was resting under the shadow of Kaba, We complained to Him what we were facing. We requested Him to pray Allah to put an end to their atrocities. The color of the Prophet's face changed and he told: "The man in the olden days was brought to a ditch, then a saw was kept in the middle of his head and in this cruel fashion he was bifurcated into two pieces, but he had been adamant to his religion. Another person was combed with iron piercing his flesh and muscles to the bones but he stood firm in his belief. No doubt ! Allah soon shall complete His religion in such a way that the rider may walk between Sana and Hadhramout with no external fear barring the fear of Allah and the wolf for to sheep but you are making haste."

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And Acid Test is must for the success of any mission. The man can't achieve his goal without passing through ordeals. The goal may be of collective nature or individual nature, the trail is the peremptory. When we start any work it remains unaccomplished till we pass through several phases for it's accomplishment. Each phase is the trial or test. If we remain upto the mark in those phases, the result is undoubtedly positive, otherwise negative. So come on ! We pledge to accept all the ensuing trials in the way of carrying the religious message all over the world, and to instill the people, with all respect, courtesy and tact, that we should begin with the identification of ourselves if we want to recognize Allah and his Prophet (P.B.U.H.) as the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has said putting his finger on the same point:

"One who has recognized himself verily he has recognized his Lord."

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