This calamity will destroy all - the masses and the Ulama - the transgressors and the pious. All will be ruined and eliminated. The Shar’i principle underlying the destruction of all (transgressors and the pious), is that whoever condones with his presence or silence sin and transgression, is regarded to be present in the arena of the evil and a participant.

We should reflect on the calamities which have settled on other sections of the Ummah and take lesson before it is too late for regret and reformation.

Hadhrat Ma’roof Karkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said: “The sign that Allah Ta’ala has befriended a man is that He involves him in activities which are beneficial for him (in this world and the Hereafter), and He saves him from things which are futile and harmful.”

Friendship is of two kinds —for the sake of the Aakhirah and for the sake of this world. Hadhrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh), explaining these two types of friendship, said:

“If the friend to whom you are presenting a gift is more beloved to you than the gift, then the friendship is for the Aakhirah. If the gift you are presenting is dearer to you than the friend, then the friendship is for the sake of the dunya.”

Hadhrat Ma’roof Karkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said:
“Honour is in three things:

1. To fulfil pledges and promises.Never to violate them.

2. To always be grateful (to Allah) even if nothing is given. (That is, even if it appears that your supplications are not answered, to be grateful for all the bounties which Allah Ta’ala has bestowed and which He continues to bestow to you. However, man takes for granted all the ni’maat he continuously receives from Allah Ta’ala without asking for these, hence does not perceive what he is acquiring every minute of his life.)

3. To give to others without them asking. (It is the Mu’min’s duty to search for those in need.)

Just as physical substances are contaminated by the addition of najaasat (impurity), so too are spiritual things contaminated with haraam acts.

A shaitaani group of singers has been invited to exhibit their haraam acts in South Africa. One of their performances is ‘thikr’ with music. Thikr with the accompaniment of haraam music is like writing the Qur’aan Shareef with urine. Such contamination is kufr. Similarly, it is kufr to make thikr with music. All those who will be present at the foul performance to tantalize their bestiality will be participants in fisq, fujoor and kufr. They will all be participating in making a mockery of the Deen.

Even if the thikr will be made without music then too it is haraam to attend the shaitaani performance and exhibition. It is haraam to make thikr to entertain people. The purpose of thikr is to gain Allah’s Proximity and Pleasure, not to entertain people who attend as if they are going to a cinema or an opera performance. It is haraam to pay money to listen to thikr. No matter how dense one may be in the mind, one can understand that the performers are here not for ibaadat, but for making haraam money, hence their performance will be held in a place of immorality where other acts associated with carnivals will be taking place in abundance according to the manager of radio shaitaan.

Hadhrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said:
“Wealth has three disadvantages:

(1) A heart full of worry
(2) Hardness of heart
(3) A difficult and fearful Reckoning (in Qiyaamah).”

“Poverty has three advantages:

(1) A heart free of worry
(2) An easy Reckoning (in Qiyaamah)
(3) Solace and peace”

(Shaqeeq Balkhi)

“Allah Ta’ala enlivens the people of obedience at the time of death, and he kills the people of sin even whilst they are alive.” (Shaqeeq Balkhi)

Hadhrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said:
“A man’s ruin is in three acts.

(1) He sins in the hope of repenting, but he refrains from taubah (i.e.he does not gain the taufeeq for taubah).

(2) He refrains from taubah hoping that he will gain long life.

(3) Relying on Divine Mercy, he refrains from taubah. Such a person never repents.”

(He does not obtain the taufeeq for taubah).

Hadhrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said:

Abstention from haraam acts is the sign of khauf (fear for Allah). Constant involvement in ibaadat is the sign of raja’ (hope in Allah’s mercy). Constant repentence (taubah) is the sign of Divine Love.”

Hadhrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh ) said:

“Nine tenths of ibaadat consists of fleeing from people and one tenth is to maintain silence.”

Hashrat Shaqeeq Balkhi (rahmatullah alayh) said: “Once in a dream it was said to me: “He who has trust in Allah, his rizq and virtues increase. He becomes generous and he is saved from waswasah (stray thoughts) in his ibaadat.”

Commenting on the truth and uprighteousness of the Akaabir (Senior Ulama), Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said:

“In reality these Seniors were the worshippers of Allah and the worshippers of the Haqq. All things were maintained within their prescribed (Shar’i) limits. But now there is such a preponderence of customs that reality and truth are been eliminated completely. Whomever one observes is a worshipper of the nafs, a worshipper of custom,a worshipper of imagination, a worshipper of the world, a worshipper of wealth and a worshipper of fame. With difficulty is a worshipper of Allah and a worshipper of the truth discernable nowadays.”

FIRMNESS

“If a person is firm, he will muster up courage wherever he may be to act according to the Deen. There will be no obstacles for him. To abstain from performing Salaat or from Amr Bil Ma’roof on account of (imagined) reasons, is plain weakness.Either some motive or fear produces this weakness....One needs to be firm. Firmness will have an influence on others. A very effective form of tableegh is that one should be firm (on the Deen).”
(Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi)

BELITTLEMENT OF THE DEEN

“People of the Deen should not maintain such a relationship with worldly people, especially with the wealthy, which displays subservience. In such a relationship is the belittlement of the people of the Deen.” (Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi)