Bismillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah wa ‘ala jami’il ambiyai wal-mursalin wa ‘ala ahlihi wa sahabihi ajmain, amin

We seek from Allah a pearl invaluable
A life of Taqwa free from sins

Taqwa (piety) is the goal of life and the gold of the Hereafter. Esteem in this world comes through family, wealth and status and honours in the world to come is based on Taqwa. Your wealth accompany you as far as the door, your family follow you as far as the cemetery and only your deeds will be lowered with you into the grave. Allahu ta’ala declared in the Holy Qur’an that the one worthy of honours in His most exalted presence is the one who possesses Taqwa.

Majority of Muslims have this natural desire to live a sin free life but the best most could achieve is to sit on the fence; savouring the tastes of sins on one hand while also engaging in some religious activities on the other hand. Because they are possessors of lman, the prickling of conscience would not allow them to have a rest of mind. Sins, being what they are, keep the heart in an unexplainable tension which most of the time appears on the face. Despite the tension and pains resulting from sins, however, the attraction becomes so overpowering that the nafs (man’s ego) is only waiting anxiously for the next opportunity, Subhanallah!

Bismillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ‘ala jami’il ambiyai wal-mursalin wa ‘ala ahlihi wa sahabihi ajmain, amin.

All Hamd to Him who created man and created other innumerable beings for his needs, who throws open the door of his worldly treasures for all His creatures, Muslims and non-Muslims, thankful and ingrates, living and non-living. Unlike worldly kings and wealthy men, He not only throws open but also calls, imploring His servants to come for His favours saying, ‘who needs so that I give, who seeks pardon so that I forgive him.’ He made this asking, this supplication the sword of the Muslims and promised honours for those who humble themselves before Him praying and requesting and disgrace for the arrogant slaves who failed to recognize their being needy every moment thus refusing to ask by humbling themselves before the Lord of all things and the only one who is far from needing anything from anybody.

Strange but true, this sword of Islam is being taken away too. Enemies of Islam are penetrating the entire Islamic world discouraging Muslims from praying thus rendering them powerless in front of all spiritual, physical and moral attacks of the West. The Prophet of Allah, Habibullah Muhammad e said prayers done after Salat will not be rejected. He supplicated in humility too sitting on his knees and stretching his blessed hands. At a time he e supplicated for rain on the pulpit, he has not rubbed his blessed palm on his luminous face before it started to rain. The Salaf as-Salihin and all the madhabs of fiqh recorded all the modes of praying in detailed. Unfortunately the same supplication is being tagged bida’, haram or kufr by modern men of ‘tawhid’. To stigmatise any step taken or approved by our exalted Prophet who is the master of Prophets and Sayyed of all creatures as haram or bida’ is the highest degree of baseness and excessive daring. We must encourage Muslims to pray and supplicate our Prophet, we should not allow this exalted Sunnah to die nor sit idly while this sword of Islam is left to rot under the guise of emphasizing Tawhid. The Prophet (Salallahu alaihi 's-salam) said: