Quenching A Future Imam's Learning Aspiration
The realities of matters will manifest themselves after ones death, so much so that even the disbelievers will also come to know of them. Hence Allah Ta‛āla mentions وَبَدَا لَهُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يَكُونُوا يَحْتَسِبُونَ “and there will become apparent to them from Allah, what they had not been reckoning.” (Qur’ān 39:47) So how gross …
I neither like pride nor have any affinity for such humility in which there is disgrace. I do not house (in this khanqāh) anyone who is haughty, nor does a displayer of false humility find any place here, nor such a person who adopts such humility in which another becomes acquainted of his being selfless. …
Maulāna Ashraf Ali Thānvi rehmatullah alayh once said, “In our times the greatness (of a person) is judged by the number of his wazā’if, and no one cares about rectification of one’s character anymore.”* Malfuzāt Hakīmul Ummat Malfuz # 306 – vol. 15 pg. 137 * Maulana Thanvi rehmatullah alayh has depicted the dilapidation of …
Sahābah had undertaken numerous sacrifices for the propagation of Islām. Today we are wiping away those sacrifices through our heedlessness. Some non-Muslims claim that Islām was spread through the sword, and now it is our time (and we are in power), so we are using the same might.
There is a core essence of Tablīgh and boundaries that govern it. We have been given ta῾līm (guidance) for everything and this ta῾līm is of a very pure nature. So pure that even the theories of elite philosophers also fail to produce something similar.
[In the talk “Need for Tablīgh”, Maulāna Ashraf ῾Ali Thānvi rehmatullāhi ῾alayh says]
…Let us look at an Ayah which has been used to take proof that no one should propagate dīn until he brings that action into his own life.
لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ . كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَنْ تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
Why do you say that which you do not do? It is most hateful to Allah that you should say that which you do not do. (61:2-3)
In reality these people have relied on the apparent translation only and have been deceived. They think that the Ayah is saying that an action which one is not doing himself, then he should not tell others to do that act, whereas that is completely incorrect. In order to understand Qurān in proper way we need to keep in mind the Asbāb un Nuzūl1 in mind.
Maulāna Ashraf ῾Ali Thānvi rehmatullāhi ῾alayh replied to a questioner that every Muslim has Nūr ul Imān in him, whether its effects are apparent or not.