Mawlana Yunus Patel Sahib rahimahullah - "And to Him is the Homecoming"
Another one of our dear akaabireen unites with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The news brought with an overwhelming sense of grief when it reached me through a text message this morning from someone who I call my 'khanqah friend' ... Although I never used to listen to Mawlana regularly (my own weakness and shortcomings kept me from doing so!), but yesterday only I was thinking of an incident that took place years ago...
I was going through a trying period in life back then. On a hot afternoon while travelling to home from the university, I switched on my mp3 player and started listening to one of Mawlana Patel sb rahimahullah's bayaans. During the dua at the end of it, he prayed to Allah to delete all the files of our sins just as we delete files from our computer. I am rephrasing his thought here and not quoting them verbatim because I am unable to recall his exact words. This mere thought was so inspiring that it stuck to my memory even after the passage of so many years... Whenever my mind recalled this thought, the memory of the Shyakh was always brought along...
... And he passed away yesterday. Indeed death seizes all. The lovers, however, are the lucky ones. Death, is naught but a veil, which once lifted, unites them with the Beloved...
inna lillaahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'uun - Verily, we are from Him and unto Him shall we return!
p.s. Other posts about Hazrat: Ashrafiya, An-noor
p.p.s. As for the dua Hazrat rahimahullah would make for death, see al-miskeenah
I was going through a trying period in life back then. On a hot afternoon while travelling to home from the university, I switched on my mp3 player and started listening to one of Mawlana Patel sb rahimahullah's bayaans. During the dua at the end of it, he prayed to Allah to delete all the files of our sins just as we delete files from our computer. I am rephrasing his thought here and not quoting them verbatim because I am unable to recall his exact words. This mere thought was so inspiring that it stuck to my memory even after the passage of so many years... Whenever my mind recalled this thought, the memory of the Shyakh was always brought along...
... And he passed away yesterday. Indeed death seizes all. The lovers, however, are the lucky ones. Death, is naught but a veil, which once lifted, unites them with the Beloved...
inna lillaahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'uun - Verily, we are from Him and unto Him shall we return!
p.s. Other posts about Hazrat: Ashrafiya, An-noor
p.p.s. As for the dua Hazrat rahimahullah would make for death, see al-miskeenah
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