musaafir-e dasht

I remember somebody once told me that when he was a child, his mother - a woman from a village in Pakistan - used to remain extremely worried about him, as he was a physically challenged child. Imagine the fate of this blessed child of hers! First, Allah made him a daa'i e Qur'an , and then made him immortal by granting him shahaadat . And we, the unlucky ones, left behind... Only to recognise the merit and stature of our Ulama when we are deprived of them... Maulana would be happy for he is united with his Lord now. We are left behind as grieving souls on this earth. Someone very rightly put it today: "the enemy knows (who) our valuable people (are) ... a lot more than we ourselves do!"

This post at ashrafiya.com leaves me aggrieved for many personal reasons. May Allah increase Nawab Ishrat Ali Khan Qaisar Sahab in his stations in Jannah. aameen. Verily, we are from Allah and unto Him shall we return.

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 ye...

A small part of the last message I received from one of my teachers-cum-mentors: P.S. Copyrights Notice: The title of this post has also been extracted from one of his audio lectures.

I read about the following inspirational encounter between Mawlana Madni and Mawlana Ilyaas (rahimahumullah) in today's newspaper . It is so heartening to read about such incidents which reflect such purity of muhabbah  - love for Love's sake! subhaanAllah, indeed! SOURCE

I just saw a picture of the janaazah of Maulana Sarfaraz Khan Safdar... and I feel overwhelmed. Not by the sight of the masses that thronged his hometown but the feeling as to how meaningful a lives some people spend... Not only their lives are so full of meaning, even their deaths are also never without it! Probably it is for such a death that Iqbal wrote: ...maut kya shae hai faqat 'aalam-e ma'ani ka safar! ****

Today when I was preparing my evening tea in the kitchen, my younger brother came in and announced the sad news of Maulana Sarfaraz Khan Safdar's ( rahimahullah ) demise. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raaji'oon . He was a renkowned researcher, scholar, writer and a lectrurer of both Tafseer and Hadith. He was also one of the leading authorities and masters of tasawwuf. Today when he passed away, his was in his early hundreds. There goes an Arabic saying, Maut ul 'aalim, maut ul 'aalam (A knowledgeable's death is the death of a world)... One after the other these gems of knowledge and wisdom who are responsible for wroughting change, in only God knows how many lives are leaving this world. Last year it was Sayyid Nafees Shah Saheb ( rahimahullah ) and this year it is Maulana Safdar. May Allah protect those who have the light of true knowledge glowing in their hearts - the light which is transmitted in to the hearts all those who are keen to receive it. These people ne...