A police officer stationed in Thana Bhawan requested spiritual allegiance (Ba'yah) from Hakim al-Ummat Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (may Allah have mercy on him), in response to which he wrote to him, introducing himself: "I am a dry...
This story took place in Syria, narrated by the owner of a tailoring factory. The narrator of the story says: I was the owner of a tailoring factory. I had a neighbor whose husband had passed away, leaving behind three orphan children. O...
Maulana Faisal Ahmad Sahib Nadvi Bhatkali writes: Our pious predecessors (Salaf) did not give any importance to purely bookish knowledge. That is, if a person did not have teachers and mentors, and had acquired some knowledge solely from...
A man was employed at a grocery store. On one pretext or another, he would keep stealing something from the shop. The owner of the shop was a very well-mannered and trustworthy person. Time passed, and ten to twelve years went by. Allah...
As soon as they return after burying you, your family's attention will turn toward arranging food for the departing guests, thinking of feeding them before they leave. A week will pass, and the routine of your children returning to schoo...
Alas! There is no one left; everyone has gone astray, everyone has turned out to be worthless, everyone has become negligent. The sleep of death has overtaken all; everyone has swallowed the same destruction and fallen into identical ruin....
This incident of accepting Islam is both astonishing and instructive. Astonishing because even after a lapse of nearly one and a half thousand years since the revelation of the Quran, no one had noticed this point until now, which became th...
A man had been sleeping comfortably through many nights of severe cold. One day, a passerby walked past him and said: "I will bring you a warm quilt!" The passerby went on his way towards his destination and forgot his promise to bring t...
The Poet of the East, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, had made following the Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet his way of life. A unique and insightful incident is narrated in "Johar-e-Iqbal," which reflects Allama Iqbal’s intense passion, love, and...
Hazrat Abu Qilaba (may Allah have mercy on him) was an eminent Tabi'i and a great scholar of Hadith. He was a student of Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him). He lived in Basra and was an extremely patient and grateful person of his...
It is not permissible, rather it is forbidden (Haram), to use the word "Rahman" for anyone other than Allah Almighty. If a person calls any human "Rahman", it amounts to Shirk (polytheism), because there can be no one besides Allah Blessed...
Sheikh Salman al-Ouda writes in his book "Zanzana": Once I complained to my Sheikh: "I read a book but I don't remember anything from it." Thereupon, he gave me a date and said: "Here, chew this!" Then he asked me: "Have you grown bigger n...
