Hazrat Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Sahib sb recommends keeping a diary. For this, he narrated an event of Hazrat Hakeem ul Ummat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi that once he was going somewhere along with Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sahfi ; on his way, he took out a diary out of his pocket and noted down something on it. Then he asked Mufti Sahib "Mufti Sahab maen nay kya kya?" (Mufti Sahib what did i do?). Mufti Shafi Sahib replied that Hazrat i just know that you took out a diary and noted down something on it. Hazrat Thanwi replied that a thought was constantly striking my mind so i just noted it down and have therefore relieved my heart for the remembrance of Allah . Hazrat Hakeem Akhtar Sahib d.b there after said that this will also enable one to write important Sayings, Ash'aar etc being told in a Majlis (religious gathering). I heard all this from some previously recorded lecture of Hazrat Wala. Wallahu A'lam