[VEGLAS - SPB]

When i'm at home, when i'm in my madressah, when i'm posting of SF, when i'm in any mehfil, when i'm with people, I have this belief in my head, Hum shuma deegray neest... There's no one like me. I'm a Maulana.

Yeah great. I'm going straight to Jannat because i've earned a Jannat Nationality by studying 8 years in a Madressah.

Because i have a beard, I wear a turban, i have long hair, my shalwar is above my ankles, I have a topi on my head, I'm called Mulla by people, I'm going straight to Jannat because it's my right.

Because I can speak arabic, because I can fit Ayats, because I can call a brelwi a mushrik and because I can prove to a Salafi that praying 8 rakat Taraweeh is a bidat... This makes me beloved of Allah and His Rasool..

Because I can read Quran, because I can read Ahadith in arabic, because I know Sarf and Nahw, because I can shut up people,... I'm a great person and loved by Allah...

BUT....

But....

Reality kicks in, when i go to Masjid e Nabawi to say Salam to Rasool Allah ... I see this person, without a beard, without a topi, his shalwar below his ankles... I see this person finding it hard to go infront of Rawdah e Mubarak.. I see him building up courage to go. He's trying to avoid it, he's walking here and there... I see him hesistating.. And then he comes and stands in front of Rawdah.. And then I notice, his presence becomes Emotions, and His eyes become Tears......

That's when i realize....

I'm nothing.. I can't even cry on Rawza e Mubarak...

I'm not even embarassed to face Rasool Allah with empty hands...

That's when I realize... This person is better than me. Allah loves him more..

That's when i know,

I'm a mulla who thinks he owns Jannat, when reality is very different to the world in my mind...

Tears.....

[bribiaLaubysdggf]

So true, we are no one.

Iblees was one of the best scholars, but look what happened to him due to his arrogance. He didn't even hesitate to argue with Allah .
Ya Allah save ourselves from arrogance.

[SkatrySkith]

in a similar vein i sometimes think that there are such people who have long flowing beards, pray 5 times salaat in the front saff of the masjid, follow all the sunnahs..........only because that is how they have been brought up by their parents and they only do all this out of habit and because of the environment that they are in.

then on the other side you have a person off the streets. he was never instructed in deen by his parents. the environment that he lives in goes against the sunnah. he doesnt even know how to pray salaat..........but then one day. just for one day. maybe on a friday. he thinks to himself that i must at least pray my jummah. so he goes against the tide and everything and everybody and goes to the masjid just to pray his jummah. but his prayer was not forced on him or brought about by habit, but he genuinely wanted to pray for Allah alone.

and the first mentioned person upon seeing him off the streets and in the masjid would think to himself that i am better than him. at that point he has fallen lower then he had ever fallen before.

may Allah forgive and guide us.

[bribiaLaubysdggf]

then on the other side you have a person off the streets. he was never instructed in deen by his parents. the environment that he lives in goes against the sunnah. he doesnt even know how to pray salaat..........but then one day. just for one day. maybe on a friday. he thinks to himself that i must at least pray my jummah. so he goes against the tide and everything and everybody and goes to the masjid just to pray his jummah.but his prayer was not forced on him or brought about by habit, but he genuinely wanted to pray for Allah alone.

and the first mentioned person upon seeing him off the streets and in the masjid would think to himself that i am better than him. at that point he has fallen lower then he had ever fallen before.

This is exactly what the Sahaba did, they went against the tide and their sincerity was high.
I too am starting to realize the negative vibe of my pride.

may Allah forgive and guide us. Ameen.

[TimoDass]

Moulana Yunus Patel saheb mentions that the higher a person goes in sulook, the more a person must instill tawadhu (humility in the self).

He explains like how a person is on the first step, then if he falls, he will not get much hurt. But if someone is on the 99th step, if that person falls, the not only will it hurt, well his whole head will smash.

So we should always consider ourselves to be small and not think highly of ourselves.

Tere Gulistan mein sab gul hain
Bas ek agar hoon to khaar mein hoon

In Your garden everyone is a rose
I am the one thorn (sorry I never know how to translate this verse properly)

Not only is the thorn insignificant, but it also causes harm. Moulana saheb continued explaining that just like a thorn, how many people do we knowingly or unknowingly cause hurt to. So then if not a thorn, then what else are we?

Annihilating pride is such a hard battle. May Allah Ta'aala give us all the strength, Ameen.

I guess one thing is remember this

Majal hai kuch bhi kar sakoon mein
Jo Tu na tawfeeq eh Khuda de

What possibility is there for me to do anything if You do not give me the ability, Oh Lord?
Your will overpowers everything; all the plans I make are insignificant.

[zawhmqswly]

.....some nice posts here, this stuff has been on my mind for a long time, its not about being a scholar only, If you have a beard these days people will give you respect even if you dont deserve it, some clean-shaven people are prolly much higher in rank than some bearded ones like me..everyone thinks you are a pious person while deep down you know that you are far off from that status, really bites me sometimes....

[VEGLAS - SPB]

Reality should always bite you. It should be there all the time.

So what is the cure to emboss this reality permanently in our hearts.

[TimoDass]

Please keep on topic.

[zawhmqswly]

I didnt wander off topic, so why was my post deleted, Abdul Qadir had a problem with shedding tears at the Grave of Huzoor only, so replied to him, Its hardly ever that I write a longer post when I do its gets deleted....

[zawhmqswly]

Reality should always bite you. It should be there all the time.

So what is the cure to emboss this reality permanently in our hearts.

....hazrat andhay se rasta pooch rahey hein???....

[QwOpHGyZ]

When i'm at home, when i'm in my madressah, when i'm posting of SF, when i'm in any mehfil, when i'm with people, I have this belief in my head, Hum shuma deegray neest... There's no one like me. I'm a Maulana.

Yeah great. I'm going straight to Jannat because i've earned a Jannat Nationality by studying 8 years in a Madressah.

Because i have a beard, I wear a turban, i have long hair, my shalwar is above my ankles, I have a topi on my head, I'm called Mulla by people, I'm going straight to Jannat because it's my right.

Because I can speak arabic, because I can fit Ayats, because I can call a brelwi a mushrik and because I can prove to a Salafi that praying 8 rakat Taraweeh is a bidat... This makes me beloved of Allah and His Rasool..

Because I can read Quran, because I can read Ahadith in arabic, because I know Sarf and Nahw, because I can shut up people,... I'm a great person and loved by Allah...

BUT....

But....

Reality kicks in, when i go to Masjid e Nabawi to say Salam to Rasool Allah ... I see this person, without a beard, without a topi, his shalwar below his ankles... I see this person finding it hard to go infront of Rawdah e Mubarak.. I see him building up courage to go. He's trying to avoid it, he's walking here and there... I see him hesistating.. And then he comes and stands in front of Rawdah.. And then I notice, his presence becomes Emotions, and His eyes become Tears......

That's when i realize....

I'm nothing.. I can't even cry on Rawza e Mubarak...

I'm not even embarassed to face Rasool Allah with empty hands...

That's when I realize... This person is better than me. Allah loves him more..

That's when i know,

I'm a mulla who thinks he owns Jannat, when reality is very different to the world in my mind...

Tears.....

Truer words haven't been spoken. Yes, all of us who are either Huffaaz or Ulama, with our beards, turbans, ankle-length trousers and 'vast' knowledge of Shariat and Tariqat only realize our true worth when we are at the Ka'bah or Rawza Mubarak without a single drop of tear in our eyes to show for our love of the Messenger or a moment's feeling of absolute terror at the Greatness and Majesty of Allah ...all the while the person beside us with none of the outwards signs of an 'obedient' Muslim, is bawling his eyes out, weeping so uncontrollably he is barely able to catch his breath. There is nothing I envy more in a person than this great blessing, because it is a feeling unlike any other, especially in the Haramain. At the end, it all comes down to one single very important variable - sincerity. I often get the feeling that I have completely forgotten what it means to do something purely for the sake of Allah and nothing else. The light of our faith is like a small candle that can be extinguished with the slightest whiff of air, rather than a towering inferno that engulfs everything in its path.

[Texdolley]

اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على نبي الرحمة وشفيع الامة، سيدنا وحبيبنا وامامنا محمد، وعلى آله أجمعين

[nemoforone]

Subhanallah great post!

for sharing!

P.S.: Hope no one misunderstand this to mean that only what's "inside" matters.

[aliceingoogs]

I enjoyed this thread. Beautiful!

[TimoDass]

Subhanallah great post!

for sharing!

P.S.: Hope no one misunderstand this to mean that only what's "inside" matters.

Good point.

Moulana Yunus Patel saheb sites an example his shaykh Hazrat Hakeem Akhtar saheb gave about how an airplane is so huge, and it's wheels are so small... but can the airplane run without those wheels? The answer is obvious. So everything is necessary to make the person complete, the inside AND the outside.

[nemoforone]

Good point.

Moulana Yunus Patel saheb sites an example his shaykh Hazrat Hakeem Akhtar saheb gave about how an airplane is so huge, and it's wheels are so small... but can the airplane run without those wheels? The answer is obvious. So everything is necessary to make the person complete, the inside AND the outside.

It's slightly OT (because this clearly wasn't the intention of Maulana Taliban Sahab when posting this), but now that we opened the topic: I've often noticed how the "anti-exterior" "anti-nomian" deviants of today make large of use of certain sentences and episodes of the Sufi of the past which went in the direction of seemingly "belittling" the exterior acts and parts of Shari'ah in order to stess the importance of the corresponding interior conditions and parts.
But not only the intentions are completely different (the Sufis' objective was to put in proper order the focus of people's attention in some "provocative" way; while the modern deviants' purpose is to get rid of Shari'ah and all the "external parts" of Islam), the times also are completely different: in the past, those "external parts" of Shari'ah were the norm for every Muslim, something which no one really doubted about, nowadays, the times are the opposite: what was the norm is now an exception.

For this reason, those episodes can't be safely mentioned nowadays unless a proper explaination is offered, lest the risk of offering the wrong message may involuntarily back the enemies of Shari'ah and Sunnah.

Different times, different approaches and way of explaining, according to the urges and specific conditions of the era. By the way, I think that's also one of the reasons for which Tasawwuf cannot be taken from books: you need a living, reliable Shaykh...

[VEGLAS - SPB]

It's slightly OT (because this clearly wasn't the intention of Maulana Taliban Sahab when posting this), but now that we opened the topic: I've often noticed how the "anti-exterior" "anti-nomian" deviants of today make large of use of certain sentences and episodes of the Sufi of the past which went in the direction of seemingly "belittling" the exterior acts and parts of Shari'ah in order to stess the importance of the corresponding interior conditions and parts.

True. The exterior is the reflection of the interior.

The Maqsad of the post was never to look down on people. And remove Takabbur from my heart.

[dmitrynts]

True. The exterior is the reflection of the interior.

The Maqsad of the post was never to look down on people. And remove Takabbur from my heart.

badalta hai asmaan rang kaise kaise

[uranbigis]

assalamu alaykum

Our elders cry and make this dua:

"Yaa Allah hamari diloen kee sakhthi ko door farmaa"

Hadhrath, it is true. In jamath I have seen people, a few days before they were drunkard, wife beaters etc., but during tahajjud they are the first to wake up, and cry like a child (voice audible in the whole masjid) for hours. And we don't have a single drop in our eyes.

[saruxanset]

badalta hai asmaan rang kaise kaise

Ye to tab kahiye jab ye jinn kisi Shaikh se munsalik ho jaye .
Wassalam