An Excellent Dowry
Written by Moulana Aashiq Ilahi SahibPreface
Marriage is a Sunnah
Overview of the Parental Home and the In-Laws Home
Parable of a Bride Compared with a Buried Believer
Behavior of a Virtuous Girl
To Propose and to Accept
What Lesson is Learnt From Marriage
Faith is like the Soul
Advice to Sisters
Who Ended the Oppression Against Women?
Love and Respect for the Prophet
The Testament of Abdul Qadir Jilani (Alaihir Rahmah)
Final Wordssee also: The Need for Simple Weddings
MarriageHamidan Wa Musalian, The pip of a mango upon looking is an unremarkable thing. But when it takes root into the earth, and is exposed to sunlight and rain, it bursts forth with leaves and branches. It grows so large that it becomes a shelter from the heat for the passing traveller, who would gain joy from the aromatic scent of its flowers. Who could say that this tree possessed all this beauty externally and internally, when it was still just a mango pip? For at that time it was still only a part of its sap and its potential was hidden from sight.
Similar is faith, when it becomes rooted in the heart. Heavenly counsel rains on one in the form of propagation, freeing one of the restraints of bad influences and foul education. One gains freedom as ones body begins to glow with the light shining from ones heart, ones tongue translates this light to be cast upon the travellers of the Hereafter, from which the souls of the Children of Adam find eternal joy from each letter and word. The complete achievements of the saints of the Ummah of Muhammad
are the fruits of this same seed, which was also just a hidden potential in the days of their childhood. And this chain will continue until the Day of Reckoning as long as it remains safe from the stain of communism. And so it is my heart felt wish that wherever and for whatever purpose there is a gathering of Muslims, the exhortations of Allah and His Messenger
Aashiq Ilahi Mirti
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We praise and send blessings upon the gracious ProphetRespected elders, brothers and friends. First of all I would like to thank you all for your attendance. Your arrival at this peasant's hovel honours the peasant. With great respect I ask of you a few minutes in anticipation that you out of your kindness will allow me this.
Marriage is the tradition of our leader Muhammad
He who was here today will be gone tomorrow,
Any breath may be his last breath,
The rope is burning by the order of Death,
The grave will eat each and all convulsions.Whether it (the mention of death) is unlucky or blessed, it is certain that whoever has come into this world, he has come only to be sent off into the next world. The sending off of a daughter is known as the living funeral. My point, to remind people with this living funeral of the funeral of death. In doing so to replace ignorance and candour with a strong dislike for the wasteful pursuits of this world.
It is another matter whether anyone takes a lesson from this regarding their own departure (from this world), but if you would just take a look at the contexts, its before and after. Where is the likeness between every detail of this girl's life (with her parents and her in-laws), with the elements of our own lives (in this world and in the Hereafter)?
Overview of the Parental Home and the In-Laws Home
Fifteen or sixteen years have passed since the girl was born. She was raised in the laps of her parents and siblings. She had played in every single corner of this house. Not once did the thought occur to her that this is not my house, and if it is, it's only for a short while. She did not even imagine that she was just a traveller passing through, that she would be leaving soon, to be carried away on the four shoulders of poll bearers. The time is drawing near that her parents will seat her in a litter and send her away from this home. She will be crying and her friends will be hugging her as they send her off. She will be watching this farewell ceremony in a state of shock, silent, with the hem of her scarf covering her face. All around will be a crowd, who's chant will be, 'hurry, hurry.'
"O Allah, what is this transformation," she will be thinking, "the people who once thought me to be the balm of their eyes are now pushing me away. The people, who became restless the minute I was out of sight, now wish that the departure be over quickly. I am crying and close to screaming out aloud, and yet no one is willing to hear what I am going through."
Who will listen to the cry of the dervish, to the injustice of the life of a dervish?
And now the final goodbyes are done and she has departed.
When she arrives at her in-laws, it is a whole new house and family. She sees' a new way of life, where everyone, young or old, is watching her every step. She thinks to herself, "O Allah, I had no idea that I would be brought to account for my previous life and that I would be tested on how I lived it. The minute I stepped out of the litter, I would be questioned, 'Are you cultured or are you an oaf? Are you a blessing or are you misfortune?' Everyone here has become a supervisor of my etiquette and speech. Even the housemaid wants to know whether I can cook, or will I be depending on her. Today I have realised that my parent's home was my place of deeds (Darul Amal) and that my in-laws house is my place of reckoning (Darul Jazah). "If I am learned, skilled, wise, religious, intelligent, obedient, patient and optimistic, than I will be beloved to everyone, I will be the star of their eyes, and I will be the ruler and vassal of everyone young and old. If I am ignorant, unthankful, bad tempered and with a bad attitude, foul mouthed, chaotic, shameless, impatient, insubordinate, stubborn and a show off, then I will face the consequences of my neglect during my life with my parents. I didn't learn to sew or thread, I didn't learn culture nor etiquette. I will become wretched even in the eyes of a child. Everyone including the doorman and the cook will look at me in disgust. Some will ridicule me and some will tease. They will call me a savage, a barbarian, ill fated, and a burden on the household. I will sorely regret not having worried about this coming day in my previous life. Then will the lectures of my parents strike my heart like spears and arrows. And I used to sulk and stop speaking to them, nor eat. When they used to teach housekeeping in a gentle way, at that time it seemed like oppression. Why, to make bread would burn my delicate hands, and sawing would make my fingers bleed. How was I to know that they were not oppressing me, it was their way of showing love and aid to me? If only I had listen to them then and had thought of them as my selfless supporters, I would not have had to endure these calamities, now I can neither live, nor die under these hardships. I am no longer counted amongst the living or the dead. Now, neither are my parents prepared to help me, nor are my friends ready to support me, they are to busy with their own lives. What is passing, is only passing on me. It is passing in such a way, that even when I cry out and scream, it does not reach their ears. And even if someone hears me, no one can do anything about it. Whatever happens now, I will have to remain here, and I will have to endure."
Whether pain or pleasure, it will all be mine,
The time gone past was a dream or imagination.My dear friends! This is a fist full of pellets from the harvest (metaphorically speaking) to show you the outlines. It has come in a Hadith that when a man is buried in his grave, the two deputies of Allah, in other words, Munkar and Nakir, come and take into account your belief and disbelief. If they find you in accordance to God, to the religion and to the Prophet
Back Parable of a bride compared with a buried believer
Understand why the Prophet
This isn't the future, it is the present; here you give by day and receive by night,
What a fine bargain, what a deal; give with this hand and take with that hand.That is the lesson, which I presented to you concisely. Now cast your eyes upon the more practical element of the lesson, how does a virtuous girl behave and act? She gives precedent to her new home over her old home. She gives more consideration to her mother-in-law than she did to the mother that gave her birth. She holds her father in-law in higher esteem than the father who carried her on his shoulders when she was a child. She would mostly ignore acting upon the commands of her 'old' parents and she repeatedly crushed their orders under-foot. But with her 'new' parents, she doesn't even wait for a verbal command; a gesture of their hands is sufficient for her. She sits in wait, watching their face for the slightest expression of desire, so that she may complete it immediately. If her first home was a palace and her second home a hovel; she will love her second home more, for she knows that she will live here. She leaves her friends of thirteen years behind and she closes her eyes to the times she played with them in the corners of her home. She showers on her brothers and sister-in-laws affection several times more intense than that which she held for her own siblings. When her father comes to the door to meet her, she will remain silent in waiting until she has her husbands permission to call him in, otherwise even if her father screams, she does not have the courage to say come in. If there is enmity between her mother and mother-in-law, no matter how much it twists her heart inside, she will not go against her mother-in-laws wishes and talk or even look at her own mother. So young and yet such a large transformation. The princess, who was raised with tenderness in her father's house and bathed in the perfume of flowers, now eats stale bread at her in-laws and expresses happiness. The girl, who had never been addressed as 'you', but as milady and madam, now listens to the ranting of the cook and maids and does not express anger.
Back These are not rumours or tales, but are real incidents that happen in every country, in every era, in every class and culture, in tens of thousands and are still happening. Such noble ladies, the two eyes of the sky (the sun and the moon) have always seen and will continue to see. But have you my dear friends ever cast a glance at the reason for such a great change? It is for one life, which is known as the husband, and for two words, which are to 'propose' and to 'accept'. She shows her compliance not by words but with silence. That she will remain with this stranger in the bonds of marriage and she will remain with him not as a servant but as a slave. She will place his happiness over hers, his desires over hers, his dear ones over hers, his relaxation over hers. To the extent that she becomes prepared to give her life in lieu of his, that she will readily die in his place and call it life, and if it wasn't against the law she would consent to be burnt alive to be with him even in death. By Allah Almighty, this is the temporary bond of a human to a human, rather that of a young girl to a male of her own species. It is from this that I draw the strength to ask of you that I have you uttered those two phrases, not circumstantially but intentionally, and not just once but repeatedly? The first phrase is the Unity of Allah, i.e. La Ilaha Illallah (There is no God but Allah), and the second the Prophethood of Muhammad
An infidel may say out of his impudence that neither did he ever vocally forswear to this, nor can he remember his spirit forswearing this. Since he cannot remember forswearing, then it is pointless in calling upon him to fulfil his bond. Or you can answer him by saying, 'Despite this being your physical form, and the physical world, you cannot remember drinking your own mothers milk, or the moment she gave birth to you, even though its been only fifteen or twenty years since then.' If his only defence is that it is only natural, then even in the naiveté of childhood one can differentiate between the lap of another and that of ones mother, for a child cries until it is returned to its mother. The Godliness of Allah is such that His evidence is in every drop of blood and every hair. If one is drowning, with not even a sliver of wood to hold on to, and all avenues of escape are closed off, then without any violation, he will say, 'O Lord, I am drowning, save me,' (without there being any need to lecture him or give him advice). What is this natural reflex, which today has drowned communism and thus left him helpless but to beseech his Lord? If you turn a blind eye to nature, then all you have is the words of the elders that this is your nurturer and giver of affection, who by putting you to her breast that very first time stated, 'My son, I am your mother. Forget me not when you grow older,' even though she herself did not see you birthing from her with her own eyes. And this from a people who are capable of conspiring together to make one lie seem like a truth.
A hundred thousand strong is the host of prophets
upon whose truthfulness even their enemies agree upon, and witnesses have come in flocks, in many times and places one after the other. For all of them to agree upon one thing without evidence is unbelievable to anyone with intelligence. The infidels have forgotten the vow they made to God and claim it to be a childhood fantasy. But they have put matrimonial vows on a pedestal and wed children who cannot wipe their own noses and are not even allowed to make the pledge themselves. They give them no choice but to accept and to avow. Salutations to those noble girls who have put aside their dolls and married a complete stranger. All because their father's said, 'I have given your hand to this person without your permission and have given him my word that you will be as his servant.' They did not even voice their feelings and say, 'Why do you force me to do accept this pledge when you made this decision alone? Why do you force me to become the servant of a stranger?' Through the twists of evil they tried to bury this evidence of Godliness, but the sign of Allah stood, and no one can erase it.
These questions and answers are another story. My present listeners are all believers, who bear witness in the spiritual and physical worlds. Rather they have made it their mantra from the minute their eyes open in the morning. And it is them who I address to bring their devotion's to the acceptance of servitude and fulfilment of their vow, to the same level of devotion of their daughters, shown in acceptance of the pledge and the fulfilment of matrimonial vows.
What answer will you give your Allah when He brings your own daughter as evidence against you and asks you, "This weak of faith, and weak of intelligence has given complete surrender to fulfilling her vow of servitude which she made once only and that in the form of silence. She put aside her first home, her normal conduct, and her way of life, her culture and her friends just for one husband. How have you fulfilled your vow to Us in acting upon the Shariah We sent you? Which fatherly customs did you leave out? Which of the insinuated innovations did you reject?
"A woman's trust in her companion is such that she readily gives up any pursuit of trying to earn money or filling her stomach but gives herself up completely in her husbands service. Just because he says that he shall take care of feeding and clothing her, even though he could be lying. We have promised you that We will make provisions for you, indeed We will provide for all your living needs. "Wa Ma Min Daabatin Fil Aradee Ilah Aa' Lallahee Rizkuha" (There is not a creature on this earth who's provisions are not upon Allah), a contract in the form of a bail bond given in your hands. In fact We have even shown you by keeping you for several months in your mothers womb. You didn't even need to ask for provisions, let alone earn them. And We have been providing for your needs even before they surfaced. But you, just because you moved your hands and feet have began to think yourself the provider for you family and yourself. Indeed you begin to say, 'If we do not work for living we will die of starvation, or will Allah come and place morsels of food in our mouths.' And even after you had earned your living and worked to achieve, you didn't become engrossed in my worship, but forgot who was God and who was His Prophet
"The wife becomes oppressed when she comes into the hands of her husband. But she does not leave the corner of the house even to answer the door. After giving you years of blessings, if We for your own well-being or discipline give you a sickness or place you in difficulty and distress, you scream out aloud and turn your face away from Us and enter a opposing religion and complain of Us before Our enemies. You rant and rave and beseech idols and totems and seek help from charlatans and talismans. You grovel and make sacrifices before dependent and helpless creations like yourself. In conclusion you did all you shouldn't have done and didn't even feel the slightest remorse. When a woman steps on her husbands threshold, she firmly tells herself that come what may of famine, hardships or grief, only after death, on her funeral would she leave. And so she does, even if her husband grabbed her by her plaits and threw her out, she did not leave the doorstep all through the night, and didn't even try taking refuge in her neighbour's house. But whenever you have wanted to become enriched by Our Majestic Threshold, you turned to others for it. We granted the benedictions on you, you attributed them to others. We made the mosque Our home and permitted you seclusion there, but you thought it to much trouble to even place a foot within. Those who did enter to read you called them the sheep of the mosque and many other derivative names.
"The lady acted upon her husband's slightest signal and you ignored Our direct commands. The lady held her husband's relatives and friends in great respect and you looked upon Our beloved ones and my obedient ones in disgust. Our friends were enemies in your eyes, and Our enemies were friends in your eyes. The scholars and students of Deen, you called mental, and the madaris, mental institutes. You believed it a great honour to follow someone as dependant as yourself, but thought it a disgrace to follow Our Messenger and Us, to such an extent that you ridiculed and reviled. The recitation of Our Words, the Quraan, seemed stale and bland to you, you refused to teach it to your children and called it a waste of time. You found taking out twenty-four minutes from twenty-four hours, for five concise prayers, a great burden. Fasting for a few days seemed like a famine, you said that he who has no food in his home should fast. If the husband sells all the jewellery from his wife's dowry and wastes it in unnecessary luxuries, not even the smallest twist of a frown appeared on her face. But you think it penalisation and damages when you have to pay a fortieth of all the wealth We have granted you. Hajj for you was to step into the mouth of death and an eminent loss of wealth. You didn't find the language of Our beloved Prophet
My dear friends! I do not mean to slander you or place objections upon you. I wish to announce the pain I feel in my heart. I am trying to reproach myself in this manner that, O' you who call yourself a man and yet are weaker than a woman, why where you sent here and what are you doing? And before you I give counsel to myself that, O' you who are accustomed to negligence, remember the place of Reckoning and step carefully in the place of deeds, remember that this world is just settling bubbles and a shadow that will end.
Who can delay the inevitable,The life which is freezing,will be gone,
The soul will be taken, from vein to vein, One day the ashes will be thrown on you,
We will die one day, in the end is death, Do what you will, for in the end is death.Back What Lesson is learnt from Marriage
In conclusion, the lesson that we should draw from marriage and the sending off is, do we think this world as our parental home and the Hereafter as our In-laws? And have we even completed a hundredth of the sacrifices and the loosing of oneself, which a woman does for the pleasure of her husband, for our Merciful and Generous Lord? What does the lesson given by marriage and the sending off tell us? It tells us the way a woman gives her chastity, her wealth, her continence, her dreams and her desires in the hands of her husband and becomes a pillar of complacency and agreement. In comparison, we should be ahead in giving our customs, our habits, our hobbies, our intelligence, our understanding, our verdicts, our methods, our worship, our etiquette, our issues, our society, our manner of clothing, our work, in short our complete body and soul in the capable of hands of Allah, and the reins of our issues, large or small, in the hands of the Unlearned Prophet
Even if the heart of religion becomes shredded,
Customs must remain completely unmarred.
The commands of God can only be done by some,
Shout out loud 'long live the peoples customs'.My dear friends, the reason why I am giving this overview of the parental home and the in-laws home, i.e. this world and the Hereafter, is because I have grown old. I have one foot in the grave. I have already buried many of my friends and family. I am seeing that my time will soon be upon me. I have no idea if I will meet you gentleman tomorrow or not. Hadhrat Goath-e-Azam, Shiekh Abdul Qadir Jailanee (May Allah's Mercy be upon him) said in his speech, "O' stranger, the beast of death stands before you with an open maw, the serpent of the grave is in front of you with its fangs bared. It is possible that you came to this gathering on foot and that you will leave on a funeral pyre. Death stands with a naked blade in his hand, waiting for the command, that when you reach this point, he will chop off your head. Get a hold of yourself and come to your senses. Do not become forgetful of death for thousands have passed through this valley. Awake from these dreams of peace, and treat your present action as your last, as if death has you by the throat and you may not be able to do this deed again.
"There is a passage in the Torah, 'O Moses, it is strange, how one can remain happy with the knowledge that he is soon to die. It is strange that the person who knows that he will be judged still gathers wealth. It is strange that he who knows he is to go into a narrow and dark grave can still laugh. It is strange that he who knows this world to be limited and ending, can still endear it to himself. It is strange that he who knows that the Day of Reckoning and Eternity is coming, can still be negligent and search for rest."
I have been so effected by this Goathi' counsel that I have no choice but to try and lift this burden off me in the courts of the Just Lord of the Day of Judgement, by quickly using this chance to elaborate for my friends and family upon this subject. If I remain negligent and untimely than more the sorrow for my ill fate and selfishness, but at least now you gentleman will have the chance to prepare yourselves.
Even if I don't learn, you should learn from my mistake.
Who knows, I may succeed through the endeavours of one of you gentleman.
Dear Elders! Any claim, no matter how small, without evidence and witness's does not even deserve a hearing. If one man's claim of ownership were enough to make him the owner of an object than this world would have become ravaged, life and honour would no longer be safe. When we make claims of faith and subjugation to Allah and to being the followers of Muhammad
Dear friends! This case will be judged on the Day of Judgement, in the courts of the King of All Kings and there will be no 'appeals'. Wherever in the Quraan the words Alazheena Aamanoo (Those who Believe) have appeared, they are accompanied by Wa A'milus Saalihaat (And do Good Deeds). We must not be led to believe by our corrupting evil conscious, that our faith is sufficient and the lack of good deed will not harm our defence on the Day of Judgement. And how can it not be damaging when these very deeds will testify to our faith, and without a credible testimony, nothing can be gained. If a wife can not fulfil the aspects of a servant, then at least she can fulfil the aspects of being a wife. If by chance, Allah forbid, we have an unfaithful wife, who does not even obey one command of her husband (if she does, she does it without desire and is tardy and lazy in doing so), do you think that her assent to marriage and the word of the minister will be enough to make her into a wife? It wouldn't be surprising if her husband exercised his right to divorce and threw her out of his house. Even if she remained with him as a wife in name, but in reality a stranger, then she may as well be dead. In the same way we have a misfit Muslim who is in danger of losing his faith any day, it will be taken from him when he is dying. Like a divorced wife, he will not be able to even lay claim to faith. If this doesn't happen through the intervention of the Prophet's beloved name
Sirs, if taking a title was enough then many would have named their donkeys as Mohina (Prosperous), but no one would respect it any more than any other donkey.
Dear friends! Faith is like the soul, and deeds like the body. If someone suffering from cancer or leprosy, or someone who is missing a limb, sits content with life, and says, 'My soul is intact and I am counted amongst the living. I am content with being disabled, maimed, blind or deaf and have no regrets or sorrow. I have no need in recovering those lost powers.' Then even a genius wouldn't have anything of use to say him. Compose yourself and open your eyes. The life in the womb of the mother is just a myth to us today and the world is what we can see before our eyes. The time is nearly upon us when our lives in this world will become just a myth, a dream, a passing thought, and the worlds of heaven or hell will become our existence. The accounts narrated by the Prophet
Muslims! Have respect for this name and give some dignity to your claim. Show some servitude to the threshold of the Prophet
Always try to complain less, Do one thing out of the two,
Either give your consent to your friend, Or end your bond to your friend. Fa Mansha'a Falyoamin Wa Mansha'a Falyakfur * Inaa A'atadnaa Lizalimeena Naara (Whoever wants to may believe, and whoever wants to may disbelieve. But verily Allah has prepared the Fire for the oppressors).I have taken much of your time, but I am hopeful that you all have benefited somewhat from my speech and have firmly gripped the Sunnah of our leader, the Noble Prophet Muhammad
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Back My dear sisters and women of this clan and family! Listen with great attentiveness, and please do not take offence. It is you mostly who convince the men or compel them to be disobedient to the Laws of Allah. Despite the fact that you are physically weak, you are strong in matters of vulgarity, notoriety and harm. You have limited in funds and depend on your men and yet you are ahead in wasteful spending. In these stale and starved weddings, it is your hands that garland these doomed customs. You forget the Lord who created you and amerce your men-folk along with yourselves in sins. There is no doubt that you have done everything to fulfil the rights of your husbands, and taught men the way to practising obedience. But this is the very thing that can be used in evidence against you in the courts of the Almighty Allah. You have done so much in the obedience of a human being, but how much obedience have you shown to the Creator of humankind? You showed great deference to a limited vow, how much did you show to the eternal Vow? You forewent your paternal family for your in-laws, solely for the happiness of your husband, but did you forego this world for the Hereafter, for Allah's pleasure? You have sacrificed your own wishes and freedom for metaphorical master, what have you sacrificed in fulfilling your real Master's direct commands and your vows to Him? Whatever difference of status there is between God and husband, the same is the difference between levels of obedience, respect and love to each of them. You in your humbleness have shown that you are capable of eliminating selfishness when you became a wife to your husband. It was simple for you to bend your own wishes to match those of his, so you have no excuse to plead proxy from obedience to your Lord. Verily, you have taught the men and stood your actions to testify against them. But those very actions are ready to testify against you that you fulfilled your wifely duties but you didn't even think of your duties to your Lord. You may have dressed the wounds wonderfully but paid no attention to the actual wounds. You have worn clothes of great style, but failed to wash the grime from your bodies. You cleared away the dead leaves from beneath the tree, but you did not water its roots. Your are like a torch, you are giving light to others but are burning up and destroying yourself. You are like snow, you are cooling the hearts of others, but are melting and ending yourself. The amendment of men is mostly in your hands, for the Creator has placed in your hands the raising and nurturing of them in their childhood. To create purity in them in their teens and to draw them away from the hall of business so they may earn both the world and religion. Nature has placed in you such an allurement that husband and children are drawn to you and are absorbed by the power of your attraction.
It has come in a Hadith: Kulukum Raa'in Wa Kulukum Masulun A'n Raa'iyati, everyone of you is responsible for someone, and all who are responsible will be questioned regarding those who are your responsibility. How much of your influence was used for the strengthening of their faith? In a way, the wife is both the master and servant of her husband, as is he her master and servant. But in the second sense you are the alluring and the influencing one and he is the attracted and the influenced. You are the beloved and he is the lover. You are his Lylah, his Shirih and he is your Mujnooh and Farhaad. That is why, when you will be asked regarding the raising of your children, you will also be asked about your husband and about all those you influenced in both your parents house and your in-law's. You will be asked, from all your sweet nature and allurement, how much did you use for the sake of Allah?Remember your history of old, when the Arab people despised your very birth. Your existence was considered a disgrace and a subject of scorn. Your lives rested heavy on them. Whenever they heard that a girl had been born in their house, they would go about with their face hidden in shame and anger. When the opportunity arose they buried you alive. There is a story of one innocent girl who was born whilst her father was away. By the time her father returned she had already began to crawl and say a few words. In the beginning her mother hid her identity from her father in fear that he would bury her. But after a few days, once the father had began to love the little girl, the woman felt reassured and she revealed to him that this was his daughter. The father remained silent, but in his mind he had already made the intention that whenever the opportunity arose, he would follow the local custom and bury the girl. Then one day, on the excuse of taking her out to play, he took her out into a jungle. He sat her on a pile of sand and began to dig. When the girl saw dirt falling on her father's clothes, she called out to him that his clothes were getting dirty, and she would try to clean the dirt away. She did not know that this pit was being dug for her. She continued to act with love and tenderness towards him and he continued to dig. When it was deep enough, he cast her into the pit and began to fill it in. The girl, thinking it still to be a game began to protest that the dirt was falling in her eyes. But the heartless father continued his work. Finally the pit was filled to the top and the last of the girl's screams had been buried. The father returned home laughing and told his wife that she had hidden her for so long but today he had done his heartless deed. He had buried that poor, innocent girl.
Back Who ended the Oppression Against Women
My sisters! Can you tell me who ended this oppressive custom? Who gave you a chance at life? Who saved you from being buried alive? Who helped you to live and exist? Listen, it was that Prophet
Re-examine your morality. Ask your nobility and your indignation, and ask that humanity which leaves you helpless but to out-do the generosity of your neighbour, how can you repay the great kindness that the Noble Prophet
Today you have totally forgotten your past. You are repaying the Prophet's
Back Love and Respect for the Prophet sallallahu alaihe wasallam
My sisters! The truth is that love and respect turn a bowl of troubles into a glass of happiness. If you had love and respect for the Prophet
Wasalihaatu Kanitaatun Hafizaatun Lilghaibi Bima Hafizallahu. You should take heed of the extensive characteristics of the Prophet's
Aashiq Ilahi Ghafralahu
31st March, 1941 A.D, Rabiul Awwal, 1360 A.H.Back The Testament of Sayyidinah Abdul Qadir Jailani (alaihir rahmah)
"My son! My Will to you is that remain in fear of Allah, and think of the rights of your parents and mentors as compulsory, for it makes Allah pleased with His servant. Stand up for truth hidden and outright. Do not leave the recitation of the Quraan from your tongue and heart, quietly and aloud, with close attention and sorrow. Consult the Quraanic verses in all matters, for the Quraan is Allah's love for His creation. Do not stray one step from religious knowledge and study fiqh, do not become one of the common or ignorant mystics. Run from prostitutes for they are stealers of religion and looters of a Muslims right. Accept the beliefs of the Ahl-e-Sunnah, and stay clear of innovations in Islam, for all these new things are misleading. Do not mix with young men, women, harbingers of innovations, the wealthy and common people, for they will destroy your faith. Suffice upon a little worldly goods and embrace solitude and cry in fear. Eat only the permitted food, for that is the key to good deeds. Do not even touch the impermissible, otherwise it will become fire on the Day of Judgement. Wear pure clothes, for you will find worship and devotions more enjoyable. Fear Allah and do not forget that you will stand before Him. Excel in nightly prayers and daily fasts (and in other acts of worship) and do not leave the congregation of Muslims, be their Imam and guide. Do not seek leadership, for he who seeks leadership will never succeed. Do not sign any contracts and do not become the companion of rulers and kings. Don't disturb matters of charges, and run from the practice of people as you would from a lion. Become a loner, so that your religion is not ruined. Travel for the requirements of religion, for the Prophet Muhammad
Son! Do not be fooled by the beauty of this world, that it is a green, fruitful and sweet thing. He who grows attached to it will remain attached to it and he who stays clear of it will remain clear of it. For this world is not eternal. Be ready to leave this world and to acquire the Hereafter.
My son! Choose seclusion, be a recluse and God-fearing. Be a comrade to those who Allah has given piety and spend your life on this world as if you are a traveller passing through. Leave this world in the same state that you entered it. For you do not know what name you will addressed by on the Day of Judgement.
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