False Confidence

Today we do not have an inclination towards good deeds. We are busy with bad deeds. Allah(SWT) keeps disbursing our sustenance without distinction. Only occasionally He decides to give a shock.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

From Great to Small

The worldly fortunes keep changing. Earlier the name was Great Britain. Now it has got confined to London. (Contraction of the Empire in which the sun found no place to set in.)

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

Purpose of Efforts

You have come to this world with your fate (this includes sustenance). Work and struggle to get this thing that has been assigned for you.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

The Wrong Friendship

In the eventuality of a friendship of Baser Self and Satan - just assume that they are going to destroy the person.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

Indulging in This World

The doctor married a princess. Shifted from Lucknow to Baghdad and then to London. He had two flats there in London. When he had to dispose them the house hold things like furniture became a hellinsh task for him.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

The Close People

A king gives lots of facilities to his Vizier. But it also entails that the Vizier can not afford to be lax in any of his duties.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

Why They Disclose?

It is advisable for man (and woman) to appoint and assign some time to take stock of his (or her) actions. To keep in eye on himself (or herself). To keep auditing himself (herself). Clearly one day, after death, one has to leave this world. So what is it that we are going to take with us? Today we display our actions to world by saying words like, "Alhamdulillah today I recited ten parts (of the Noble Qur'an)". Now for whom you are doing these action He is All-Seeing and All-Hearing (and hence you do not have to make a show of it all). And if People of Allah(SWT) do disclose some of their actions then the purpose is that other people take admonition from their actions.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Tuesday, March 6, 2012)

On Qari Sahab(NM)

A pang of pain crosses heart when we have to call Qari Sahab with the honorific of Nawwarallahu Marakadhu. The words a person uses through out his life the very same words come on his tongue at his last time. When pain started Qari Sahab(RA) started reciting the words : I repent from kufr and shirk etc. His grandson suggested to recite Ya Salaamu.  That is what Qari Sahab(RA) was reciting when he left this world. It was Tahajjud time and thus he did not missed any regular Prayers and no other worship was left out. He protected himself from sins and devoted his life in the service of Deen. His body was carried on shoulders in a city like Mumbai. Lakhs of people participated in the funeral process and a distance of seven kilometers was covered in half an hour. He had memorized the Noble Qur'an but did not disclose it to the people. In spite of being a practicing Scholar he used to contact scholars in matters of Religion in the first go. There have been two Elders who used to keep themselves hidden from the people. Another one was Shah Muhammed Ahmed Sahab Pratapgarhi (RA). I saw his village - it was so much in the interior that it was difficult to approach.

(Sitting (Majlis) on Monday, February 27, 2012)

After Qari Amir Hasan Sahab (RA)

Standing on the twenty fifth floor of a Mumbai high rise Mufti Usama, may Allah(SWT) provide him protection, is mulling over what to do. Loneliness of the vacuum left behind by Hazrat Qari Sahab (RA) is only accentuated by the void out side the sky scraper. When some one dies on Friday, as it happened in case of Hazrat Qari Sahab (RA), one is counted as a martyr. And one's tomb is extended to his native place if one dies away from home and one also gets the status of martyrdom. Allah(SWT)'s bounty know no limits and the status of a martyr, twice over, is no surprise for an Elder is already bestowed with the higher status of a Siddique in his life.
Mufti Usama told that Qari Sahab (RA)'s Funeral Prayer was lead bu Maulvi Qutbuddin - Qari Sahab (RA)'s grandson. Qari Sahab (RA)'s only son died several years back having left three sons behind. For last many weeks Qari Sahab(RA) was camped in Delhi because his daughter-in-law went through some medical procedures. He also has left a daughter behind and has several grand children from that side. Maulvi Qutbuddin was, for some time, discharging the duties of chief assistant of Hazrat Qari Sahab (RA). Like Maulvi Qutbuddin, like Mufti Usama Hazrat Qari Sahab (RA) has left a big vacuum in the life of so many people. Yours truly too got a dream that must be immediately after the sad demise of Hazrat Qari Sahab (RA). Yours truly is one of the relatives and after coming out of the population there is the view of an Eidgah and a Mosque. Both are old and exquisite in their get up but deserted. Yours truly remarked to the relative that I feel like crying at their condition. We shall leave the proper interpretation to the scholars but few things can still be remarked. Both of these places are places of worship, places of 'Ibadah. These are deserted when 'Abids are absent. In all probability it was the heralding of the fact that an 'Abdal has left this world. Of course it is also an indication that we the mourners must pay special attention to 'Ibadah - our worship of Lord Most High.

Hazrat Qari Amir Hasan Sahab (RA) was born in district Siwan of Bihar in India. Initial education was received there only. Then he took admission in Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur, UP, India and finished his education there. He got khilafah from Shaikh-ul-Hadeeth Maulana Muhammed Zakariya Kandhalvi (RA) in very early age. In deed Shaikh-ul-Hadeeth (RA) is reported to have said that when Allah(SWT) will ask as to what I brought from the world then I'll present Amir Hasan. Qari Sahab (RA) has left behind a large number of khulafa of both kind - the number will easily cross hundred. Allah(SWT) continuously chose him for the journey of Haj since 1977 including the last Haj. According to Hijri he got an age of 91 years.

May Allah(SWT) have Mercy upon him and elevate his status.

Qari Amir Hasan Sahab Encircled by Divine Mercy

Announcing the passing away of Remainder and Reminder of Pious Predecessors Hazrat Qari Amir Hasan Sahab today morning on Friday, February 23, 2012 at Mumbai. Burial is scheduled for after Friday Prayers in Mumbai.

Verily we are for our Lord and unto Him is our return. May Allah(SWT) grant him a place in Jannat-ul-Firdaus, honourable patience to the grieved family and all those who were associated with him and a replacement of him for the Ummah.