Re: Share the Speeches and Sermons you hear in Ramadaan-ul-Mubaarak
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29th night, Maulana Ehtaram-ul-Haq Thanvi delivered the most thought provoking words to be acted upon…
He started the speech by saying that in our life, there are occassions when it is hard to decide whether to be
happy or to be sad… one example he gave was of the feelings of those parents who get their daughters
married… hard do decide happiness of the marriage is greater or less than the sadness of her departure… Such
mix feelings are evident in many instances of life…
He said that it is very sad moment for us that Ramadaan is leaving us but on the other hand, the happiness of Eid
is bound by this sadness…
Then, he talked about how every good deed is dependent on Khatimah bil kher… He quoted a hadeeth **Innamal **
A’amaalo bil Khawaatim that is Actions are dependent upon their ends
In it was the hint that fasting was just the beginning of an action and then, there are far more effects of it in
our lives and that there are lait-ul-qadar to make good ending of this fasting practice as well…
TO explain the hadeeth quoted above, he gave an example… He reminded us of the game we used to play in
childhood … Behind the Ludo board, used to be a game of SaaNp SeeRhi … in which we had 100 points to
cover with the throwing of dice.. and there were ladders through which we can jump high or there were snakes that
can throw us down in the game… so there used to be this snake at like the 98 or 99 position that was the
longest one and often reaching at that position meant to be a loss… He compared the A’amaal which have worked
upon so patiently but the end of which are similar to this…
So, he touched upon the good deeds of calling others to enjoin what is right… From Maulana Room’s hikaayaat, he
mentioned a story of a saint who wanted to preach to a very hard headed prince but he could never get into the
palace because of the presence of guard on the entrance… One day, the guard was caught napping and this old
fellow sneaked into the palace… He found the prince coming towards him and had a chain in his hand to which his
dogs were all tied together… Prince was not only astonished to see the old person there… but became angry as
well so he asked the question to this old lad in anger: Who is better? you or my dogs?
At this question, Maulana Ehtaram-ul-Haq changed the subject a bit … to something that is sad too… …
he said… if it was today’s time and age, and it was any one of us, our answer would have been along the lines of Yes Boss!. As Allama Iqbal has said something which can be interpreted as: **Today’s era is the FITNA ****of words… we say something and it means something… All we do is JEE HUZOORI and Khushaamad… But it’s an art ****and there are two ways to do it.. Those who do it with the bhoNda method, it will harm the person.. but these **days only those are the winners in this world who know how to use this art… Then, he read Iqbal’s sher along the same lines:
Naheen maaloom yeh khushaamad hai kay haqeeqat
keh day koi ullu ko agar raat kaa shaahbaaz!
Therefore, that old saint first thought that if he would say that dogs are better, it will be against the
teaching of Allah which says that humans are the Ashraf-ul-Makhlooqaat but if he says that he is better then, he
does not know about the future either… Who knows if his end will be worst than the dogs…
After touching this careful mentality of a believer, Maulana moved the topic to Logic, Aqal, Ishq, Faith
in practicing Islam… He said that the disease that muslims (especially in the west) have these days, is that
they start questioning the reason and logic and bring their brains behind a command of Islam… Why, how etc.
Intstead of getting benefit, they refuse to perform the command unless they understand it through Logic… It is
imperative to understand that not everthing can be understood by logic… He presented many examples… two of
them which I could remember are:
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A child was sent to a molvi to teach him Quran. The first day Molvi saahab asked him to read Alif, Baa
… The child responded saying **Molvi Saahab! I will read this only when you can tell me why Alif is straight **
line standing up like that and why Baa is laying down like that with a dot underneath? … Molvi saahab sent
the child back to the parents saying that the it was not the fate of the child to read Quran with such
thinking… This was the example of using logic and AqL where there is no use of it… -
The second example he gave was from the Hikaayaat of Maulana Ruum (RA)… A person makes the Niwaala of rice and looks at it before eating. He realizes that each grain of the rice was in different direction. He questions himself how is it going down the throat if they are not in one direction. A person who was sitting next to him tells him it was not in his fate to eat that for he can spend his long life while straightening the grains in all directions while others will have the meal and thank their Lord…
On the same account of Logic versus Love of Almighty, Maulana Ehtaram-ul-Haq noted down a story of a place in India called Sandela… In old days, people mostly used to go on Hajj via sea-ship carrying ration of several months with them to Makkah al Mukarramah. During such time, people boarded on a ship when they found a 9-10 years old kid on the deck… Surprised, the people asked him where he was going… The kid asked them back where they were going. People replied that they were going on Hajj.. SO the kid tells them back, so was he… People then asked him where was his provisions, rations etc. The little boy replied them “It’s such an insult to go to visit a King and take your meal with you… Insult of the king for sure…” … People were silenced… The journey started…
Meeqaat came in… People started putting Ahraam and starting the Talbeeh: Labbaik Allahuma Labbaik… The kid hid in the corner… People looked for him and told him to put on Ahraam and start with the Talbeeh… Child responded: You people are so courageous that you are saying Labbaik… I am afraid if I put on Ahraam and say Labbaik Allahuma Labbaik, what if the answer comes back: Laa Labbaik… “We do not need your presence”… … People were silenced again…
At the end of Hajj, everyone was slaughtering animals… this kid was alone walking and observing the occassion… he did not have the provisions to carryout the ritual… so he started crying looking at the sky: Oh Allah! I have nothing to sacrifice except my ownself!!! and people heard a loud cry… the kid fell on the ground… Bt the time When the people gathered around him, the small kid had gone to his Lord… Such is the story of Love - something totally opposite of logic and reasoning…
There was one more narration he mentioned about a saint at the end… The saint had many mureedeen… and he had also taken loans from many of them… He was on his death bad and all his mureedeen were sitting around him… He was covering himself with a quilt, asking Allah to ease his death and ease the issue of loan before his death when he had an ilhaam according to which he was told to see the faces of his mureedeen. If he finds even one single person whose face does not show the hardness of his heart, his duaa would be answered… He looked at the group and disappointed to see all of them withour such a heart… and put the cloth (chaadar) back on him… It was the time when he heard the voice of a small child outside who was selling Halwaa… He calls the boy in .. make a deal with him about the whole halwaa and asked the boy to distribute it among his mureedeen. When boy asked for the money, the old saint asked him to sit in the group of mureedeen. The innocent child started crying out loud for not getting his money… At that point, someone came at the door, gave a bag to the old saint telling him that he can pay everyone from there and that Allah had answered the cry of the child…
WIth the mention of this incident, Maulana Ehtaram quoted Mualana Ruum saying that all the bahaaraiN in this world are due to the tears and crying… when clouds cry, it rains.. when an infant cries, then comes the milk in the breasts of his mother…
and, and when the slave of Allah cries in front of him, that’s when bahaaraiN in his life and in life hereafter come in… and with that lights in the masjid were turned off and we all raised our hands for long supplications in front of Rabb-e-zul Jalaal in the last odd night of the last days of Ramadaan… Heartening moments… Undescribable times :-/
Today is the last friday of Ramadaan… tomorrow is Eid… I will try to update my last entry for this Ramadaan after Eid Insha Allah…