Scattered Pearls

June 17th, 2011

These are some scattered golden advice from the Pious Scholars, which should always be practiced to improve our life: Always start a work with Bismillah. Niyat (good intention) turns many of our ‘ordinary work’ into ‘great worship’. Highly value it! Manage the time well; do not let time be wasted by being engaged in useless

Knowing vs Practicing

May 27th, 2011

Extract from a lecture of Mufti Abdur Rauf Sukkharvi (DB): In the light of Quran and Hadith, there is such a Deed, which is very easy to accomplish and its Sawab (Reward) is abundant. The deed is very easy to carry on and its reward very easy to attain. Reward and benefit are both achieved

In a Friday lecture of Holy Ramadan, Mufti Taqi Usmani (DB) mentioned: Hazrat Siddiq-e-Akbar (RA) said (Meaning), Whenever you get the Tawfeeq (ability) of accomplishing a good deed, carry out two actions to Allah. Say Alhamdulillah (All Praise is for Allah!) and utter Astagfirullah (Forgive me O Allah!). Alhamdulillah, because the Tawfeeq (ability) of doing

Two Useful Thoughts

February 6th, 2011

Two very useful thoughts are always borne in the mind of a Believer: One, I don’t know whether my good deeds have been accepted or not. Two, I don’t know how my life would end up (i.e. would it be a good-ending or a bad one). By contemplating on these thoughts we could always refrain

Eminent Scholar and Pious Elder, Mawlana Abul Bashar Muhammad Saiful Islam Saheb (May Allah Taala prolong his shelter upon us) at a farewell program (for the new Ulama passing from a Madrasah) in year 2005, advised his students by saying, “Wear ragged clothes, live on thick rice and stay in a shanty (if necessary), still

To achieve something one has to forgo something. If one makes afterlife the objective, ones objective is no more this world. A person who has made firm intention to attain eternal success would thus embrace the troubles and pains of worldly life with forbearance. He knows that all these troubles, pains and adversaries are happenings

(Hazrat Muhammadullah Hafejji Hujur (R) used to talk very less and and when he talked he talked simply; he was the Khalifa of Hazrat Ashraf Ali Thanvi (R); Hazrat Hafejji Hujur (R)’s words lift our Iman and encourage us to lead a piety life; May Allah Taala shower Abundent Blessings on Him forever. Through him,

Do not hate your Good Deed

June 17th, 2008

Extracted from a Bayan of Hazrat Mawlana Thanvi (R) Delivered on 1st Jamadas Sani 1335 Hijri Sometimes, people who are striving on the Path of Allah Taala after accomplishing good deeds, feel a hatred toward their good deeds. In certain condition and state, they feel themselves ‘inferior’ and consequently start disliking their good deeds. They