Teach Them Science

Some people insist on teaching the so called modern things to the Seminary (madarsa) people, like computer and internet, to make them more advance. I say that if you do your Prayers with wrong pronunciation then you are in a much graver danger.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

On Significant Seminaries

Once Shah Hardoi (RA) was in Dar-ul-Uloom, Karachi. After delivering the admonitions he asked the students to show their Recitation of the Holy Qur'an. It turned out that there were problems of Pronunciation (tajweed). He told the teachers that in all probability you are not responsible for this wrong pronunciation because this is some thing that the students must have learned some where else before coming to the Dar-ul-Uloom but, remember, that even then this student will be said to be a product of Dar-ul-Uloom, efforts should be made to get their pronunciation right. After that he wrote letters to Dar-ul-Uloom, Deoband as well as Nadwa, Lucknow too regarding the same.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

Delivering Prayer Call for Forty Years

A person visited a city near Aligarh and after the Prayer Call he contacted the Prayer Caller about some wrong emphasis in his Call. This Caller said you are a boy born just yesterday, I have been delivering the Prayer Call for last forty years. (Though this person later admitted his mistake but at another occasion Hazrat Shaikh (DB) advised that if there is a possibility of a turmoil (fitnah) getting created then avoid making any admonition. For example if the Imam make wrong Prayers then revise your Prayers at home.)

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

What is Pronunciation?

 What is pronunciation (tajweed)? It is correct delivery of words. Today we see that some people give the Prayer Call in a singing tone. Mufti Mehmoodul Hasan Sahab (RA) used to criticize this. He said that the Prayer Call is like royal announcement and that is how it must be delivered.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

Object of Knowledge

 There was a big (great) Mufti. He used to say that I have gathered knowledge for the sake of acting on it and not for gaining worldly things from it. And I do not have a formal certificate of my knowledge. Today we are busy declaring our selves Qasimi, Mazahiri and Nadwi.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

Do Some Practice

 When you learn the correct pronunciation of a word of the Holy Qur'an then do some practice of pronouncing it.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

Reform Your Dealings Too

 One should reform his dealings too. Today we indulge in optional good deeds but then commit sins too. Whenever a few people gather immediately the talk turns to those words that are not preferable.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

How Does It Give Trouble?

Even in worldly matters when we make a wrong pronunciation of a word then the people who know that language feel the pain of that. (We demand impeccable accent for temporal matters. Should we not do the same for the Holy Qur'an?)

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2011)

The Route to Correct Recitation

Even if you start by correcting the recitation of a single word daily even then  the whole of your Holy Qur'an will become correct.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2010)

Some Rights of the Holy Qur'an

The learning to read the Holy Qur'an, to do its recitation and to act upon its directions are our duties. If there is laxity in even one of them then there is the danger of being guilty.

(Sitting (majlis) on Tuesday, January 18, 2010)