True Thikr

True Thikr

This dunya faani--perishable world-  from all sides, only restlessness.
In the rememberance and obedience of Allah- the hearts find rest.

Not just five minutes Thikr and you have your peace, no, when you see a woman and you

(remember Allah) don't look- here's the peace.

If you did your Thikr and now you (forget Allah) looked at the woman, then you will destroy life. And if you go further then your marriage will even break up and you will lose your children. And if you have to die in this condition, then what!?!

Casting the evil gaze

Casting the evil gaze

When you look at the 'pari'- 'fairies' of this dunya, then your 'pareshaan'-'anxiety/depression' will only increase. The word 'pari' is in the word 'pareshaan' ((in the urdu language)).
Then you try to relieve yourself by holidays, going to resorts and you have to take sleeping tablets...

Western or Islamic lifestyle?

Western or Islamic Lifestyle?

Western lifestyle-- behind it all is just endless anxiety and worries, no peace of mind. Compare them to people living in a village - we think they are backward but they got no pressure and stress, living peacefully,
If you live a true Islamic life; you will have no worries like this.

For example: a woman's place is in the home- to see to the children and family.

She can do khidmat of Deen from her home but that too not at the cost of her family and children, even if she is an Aalima.

This is her true Islamic life, in this there is peace for her.

Fading...

Fading...

Like how the beauty of a flower fades away, so too does the beauty of a woman fade away. Give your youth in the path of Allah and do not waste it.
The more you destroy and waste your youth the earlier old age comes in, and you will then suffer the consequences. All the eating out and cosmetics- the natural beauty Allah gave you?!- you thought you were making your life but you were destroying it.

So let every soul see what he has sent forward for tomorrow for the Qabr, what will meet me there?

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Whatever you achieve in this path is only by :
the Barkat and Duaas of your Shaikh and
the Fadhl and Rahma of Allah Jalla Jalaaluhu...

Living on a leaf¿

Living on a leaf¿¿¿

One example Moulana Rumi Rahmatullah alayh gave; an ant, a small insect; walks up on a grape vine, comes right till the top, whole life it stays on the leaves, you see holes also on the leaves, it's eating it, and whole life. Moulana say if that ant could find a Sheikh to tell it "you made lot of effort you, from the bottom you came till here, whole life you spending, you eating you living on the leaves, if you just went one centimeter higher and you got one drop of the grape juice, your Subhaanallah should come out from inside."
Just like that as a student you did alif, baa, taa, thaa you did..... you did naazara, you did Hifz, you did Qirat, you did adab, lughat, Aalim,

everything, you become an Aalim you are now giving fatwas, you're a Mufti, you are doing Qiraat, you are giving bayaans, you are living on the leaf. If you go just get that one centimeter up and you get Allah's muhabbat, Allah's Ma'rifat, your Subhaanallah will naturally come out from; Ma Sha Allah, now my efforts have realized the fruit for what I toiled so long. So in Sha Allah do that.

~Hadrat Moulana abdulHameed Sahib, daamat batakaatuh

Understand Tasawwuf

Understand Tasawwuf 

Moulana Thanwi Rahmatullah alayh said there isn't a single Aayat, a single Hadith in which there isn't Tasawwuf but He says people haven't understood Tasawwuf. What many people; even good, learned people understand Tasawwuf to be? Karaamat. What is karaamat? Honor, Allah gave you honor. But technically we say, karaamat, something out of the ordinary. Like if we have to hear somebody; there's some Buzurg and he flies in the air, all of us will say, "we must go make his ziyaarat, what a great Buzurg!" But the fly also flies in the air and nobody will say a fly is a big Buzurg and "Mr fly please I want to become Bay'at with you, you will give me Ma'rifat of Allah you will teach me, that you fly in the air, what a big Buzurg!" or a mosquito, hey, infact you kill the flies and mosquitoes and if karaamat is to walk on the water, then a fish swims in and how it swims also. So that is also nothing, if we hear some Buzurg is walking on the water, hey he's a great Buzurg man, but it's nothing that.

What is Tasawwuf? Moulana Thanwi Rahmatullah alayh said that Ma'loomat; what you know; Ma'loomaat, make it Ma'moolaat; practice on it. That is all what Tasawwuf is, that you have to practice on it.