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The Destructive Consequences of Not Observing Purdah

THE DESTRUCTIVE

CONSEQUENCES OF NOT

OBSERVING PURDAH

(INTERMINGLING OF SEXES)

By
Shaikh-ul-Arab Wal Ajam Arifbillah

Hazrat-e-Aqdas Maulana Shah
Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Sahib,

May his shadow remain over us for 130 years.

Published by:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table Of Contents 2

Dedication 4

Details 5

The Destructive Consequences Of Not observing
Purdah 6

Which is the Most Blessed Marriage? 6

Simplicity in the Marriages of the Sahabah and
Elders 7

The Misfortune of Extravagance in Marriages 8

Sinful Customs in Marriages 8

The Reason for no Blessing in Sustenance 9

How Does One Earn Respect? 10

An Indication that the Intellect is Tormented 11

Meditation to Save Oneself From False Love 12

The Destructiveness of False Love 14

Where Does the Sanctity of a Woman Lie? 15

The Disgraceful Occupation of Air Hostesses 17

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An Admonitory Consequence of Non-Purdah 18

Marital Life is Destroyed Through Casting Evil
Glances 23

The Patient Does not Have the Right to Object to his
Doctor 24

Disparaging Beauty Does not Entail Indignity to
Anyone 26

A Pious Husband Loves his Wife the Most 27

Stupidity Is the Torment of Allah Ta'ala 28

Making Objections to the Shaikh is a Sign of
Deprivation 29

The Treatment for False Love 30

Remaining Aloof From Beautiful Boys and Girls is the
Only Way to Save Oneself from Sin 35

The Bounty of the Company of the Pious 36

Pakistan is an Islamic State 37

Who is Eligible for Ties of Kinship? 38

Control the Tongue 39

When is it Sunnah to Get Married? 39

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DETAILS

Topic:

The Destructive Consequences of Not

Observing Purdah.

Speaker:

Shaikh-ul-Arab wal Ajam Arifbillah

Hadrat-e-Aqdas Maulana Shah Hakeem

Muhammad Akhtar Sahib, may his shadow

remain over us for 130 years.

Date:

4 Safar al-Muzaffar 1412 A.H., Friday, 16

August 1991.

Time:

Before the Jumu'ah salah.

Venue:

Musjid Ashraf, Gulshan Iqbal, No. 2,

Karachi.

Subject:

The harms of not observing purdah, casting

evil glances and false love.

Compiler:

Attendant of Hadrat wala, Sayyid Tshrat

Jamil Mir Sahib.

First edition:

December, 2009.

Copies:

2200

Supervision:

Ibrahim Brothers.

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THE DESTRUCTIVE

CONSEQUENCES OF NOT

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try to have the nikdh before the salah. However, if it is
difficult to complete my topic, then - insM Allah - the nikdh
will take place after the Jumu'ah salah and 1 will also say
something with regard to marriage. In fact, today 1 will
focus more attention on explaining issues related to
marriage.

Which is the Most Blessed Marriage?

RasuluUah (Sallellaho alaihe wasallam) said:

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The most blessed marriage is the one in which expenses are few,
and which is simple.

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Instead of wasting the money on unnecessary expenses, it
is better to give the same money to one's daughter, to one's
son-in-law, to be used to purchase carpets for a musjid, or
to pay for the expenses of a student. In short, consult your
shaikh and spend it in some correct avenue. The walimah
meal which is Sunnah is to be from the boy's side - to
whose house the bride is going. But today, the opposite is
taking place. The girl's side is spending thousands to feed
and entertain the thousands of people who come from the
boy's side. If a person has five daughters, he estimates his
cost at 600 000 rupees. Consequently, he steals, robs, and
accepts bribes. Moreover, it is not necessary for the boy's
side to have such a large walimah for which a tent has to be
pitched, 10 000 people are invited, and hundreds of
thousands of rupees are spent to feed the guests. A
walimah can be fulfilled by just five people as well. If any
family is not invited, it has no right to complain.

Simplicity in the Marriages of the Sahaba
and Elders

Karachi is a very large city [so it is understandable if
someone is not invited]. In a small town like Madinah, a
Sahabi - Hadrat 'Abdur Rahman ibn 'Auf (radhiallaho
anho) did not invite Rasulullah (Sallellaho alaihe
wasallam) to his walimah. Rasulullah (Sallellaho alaihe
wasallam) saw the yellow coloured effect of fragrance on
his clothes and gauged [that he just got married]. So he
asked him: "Did you perchance get married?." But Rasulullah
(Sallellaho alaihe wasallam) did not feel offended in the
least for not being invited to the walimah.

My shaikh. Shah Abrarul Haqq Sahib rahimahullah, gave
his daughter in marriage to a very noble family. Professor
Hakim 'IrfanuIIah Sahib was a member of the Consultative

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Assembly of Deoband and a senior hakim (Islamic
physician) of Aligarh Tibbiyyah College. Hadrat said to
him, "You must come with your son and one other child."
In other words, no more than three people may come from
Aligarh to Hardoi. Thus, the father must come, the son
who is going to become the son-in-law must come, and he
may bring one additional child. No fourth person may
come. This is what you call simplicity. But today people
say that if we adopt simplicity 'our nose will get cut' [we
will be humiliated]. Listen, the 'nose' is under Allah's
control. If you opt for simplicity, you will be honourable in
the sight of Allah Ta'ala.

The Misfortune of Extravagance in
Marriages

Ever since the ummah introduced fabricated customs and
formalities on occasions of marriage, it became entrapped
in evils such as debts, usurious loans, and accepting bribes.
The root of all these evils is this unnecessary expense and
extravagance. When the blessing of marriage is in
enduring less expense, why does the ummah not avail itself
of this blessing? Why is it depriving itself of this blessing
by going into extra expenses and doing things for show?

Sinful Customs in Marriages

These days, we see the practice of making movies on the
occasions of marriage. 1 refer to it as mu'i. In past times,
when a woman cursed anyone, she would say: "O you
mu'i}." In other words, O you who are going to die! Look at
the extent of immodesty in making movies where the bride
and bridegroom are together, and they are also
accompanied by the non-mahram friends and relatives of
the bridegroom. They are then shown in all houses. You

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are displaying your daughter and daughter-in-law to
strange men and accepting gifts in return. Can there be
anything more shameful than this? Then you complain
and say that you are distressed and that there is no
blessing in your sustenance.

The Reason for No Blessing in Sustenance

When you earn the anger and displeasure of Allah Ta'ala,
how will you experience blessing in your sustenance?
Some people are under the assumption that they will
experience blessing merely by reading some wazifah
(supplication, verse, etc.). Listen! You will certainly receive
Allah's mercy by reading a wazifah, but if we do not give
up sins, Allah's anger will also befall us. If mercy and
anger face each other, how will we find the path? An
example of this is as follows: by committing sins, the truck
of Allah's anger will approach; and by reading a wazifah,
the truck of Allah's mercy will approach. Neither of the
two will give way to the other. If anger does not move
aside, mercy will not come. We cannot expect mercy solely
from reading a wazifah, but we will receive mercy if we
give up sins. Give up sins and you can imdoubtedly read
your wazifah.

Tell me, if excreta falls on your clothes, do you apply
perfume to your clothes, or do you wash your clothes and
then apply perfume? The remembrance of Allah Ta'ala is a
perfume, but you must first remove the foul smell of sins.
But this does not mean that you must not perform salah,
fast, etc. as long as you have not given up sins. Salah,
fasting, etc. are compulsory, obligatory and sunnat-e-
mu'akkadah (emphasised Simnah). Perform your salah and
fast, and also engage in the remembrance of Allah Ta'ala.
However, it is necessary to rectify this belief that merely

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reading a wazifah will solve everything. No! It is essential
to give up disobeying Allah Ta'ala. Even if a person
displeases Allah Ta'ala for a single breath, he is making the
anger of Allah Ta'ala lawful to himself, unless he repents.

How Does One Earn Respect?

Just today, a person informed me that he is only twenty
years old but ever since he is keeping a beard, even
seventy-year-old women are addressing him as "uncle"
and mocking him so that he may be frightened by this title
and shave off his beard. 1 said to this youngster, "If a
seventy year old woman addresses you as 'uncle', is there
respect or disrespect for you by this title? You ought to be
grateful to Allah Ta'ala for this respect." In like manner, if
a seventeen or eighteen year old girl wears a hurqa' (loose
head and upper body covering), what do her family
members tell her? [They mock at her and tell her]:
"Mother, shift aside and give us way." Now this young
girl becomes agitated and thinks to herself that she has to
bear being addressed as a "mother" because of this hurqa'.

you who are wrong in your thinking! Allah Ta'ala is
actually according respect to you in the sense that even
elders are addressing you as "mother." Be grateful that
Allah Ta'ala is giving you this respect. What, do you want
people to address you as a "little girl"?

1 had a friend who was a nephew of 'AUamah Shibli. He
was sixty years old and - mdshd Allah - he had a big
beautiful beard. When he boarded a bus, some youngsters
who were sitting stood up and said, "Uncle, you can sit in
our place." There was another person who was ten years
elder than him, dressed up in modern clothing with a tie,
clean-shaven, and was employed at an office. He asked my
friend, "How old are you?" He replied that he was sixty

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years old. He addressed the boys and said, "I am ten years
elder than him. Why do you not offer me a seat? Why do you not
address me as 'uncle'?" The boys replied, "You look like a
nephew, you do not look like an uncle. You will only look like an
uncle when you keep such a big heard."

An Indication that the Intellect is Tormented

There is something else which is astonishing. In fact, it is
most astonishing. There was a girl from a religious family,
regular in salah and fasting, who dressed in Islamic dress.
In their quest for money, her parents got her married to a
person who was educated in America, who had no
religiosity, and who did not perform salah. When she went
to her husband's house wearing a burqa', her husband took
the burqa' and burnt it in the fire. He said to her, you will
have to apply lipstick, put on make-up, wear revealing
clothes and accompany me to Clifton to Alfeston Street.
You will have to meet my friends and relatives. If you
were to don this old-fashioned burqa', 1 will lose all my
respect. People will say: 'What an old-fashioned wife this
person has come with!'"

O how sorrowful! The thing which has been accorded
respect by Allah Ta'ala and RasuluUah (sallellaho alaihe
wasallam) is considered to be disgraceful by the Muslims
of today. Tell me, where does the respect and dignity of a
woman lie? Is it in purdah or moving about naked? Does a
noble and modest woman want strange men to cast evil
glances at her hair and cheeks, and whistle at her? Real
respect lies in a woman offering salah, keeping fast,
serving her husband, bringing up her children, and
wearing a burqa' when going out of the house. But today,
the husband considers it respectful to walk around in the
shopping centres with his fashionable wife. He feels

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embarrassed when his wife wears a hurqa'. What respect is
there in others looking at your wife? There is a limit to
shamelessness and absence of self-respect. When a person
disobeys Allah Ta'ala, his intellect is also tormented. He
thus considers good things to be bad. Allah Ta'ala refers to
this as follows:

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Is he to whom the evil of his deeds is made fair-seeming, so
that he considers it as good. . . (Surah Fdtir, 35: 8)

In other words, Satan beautifies evil and makes it
appealing. Consequently, people start considering evils to
be good. For example, women consider non-purdah to be
good. As for the women who are pious, who adopt
purdah, wear the hurqa', fear Allah, perform salah, and
keep fast, it is our duty to respect them and we ask them to
supplicate for us. As for the women who walk about
without purdah, who display their hair and cheeks, and
thereby steal the iman of the men, we will never respect
such women. This is the theme of most of our talks: the
hair and cheeks of women who are not in purdah must not
destroy the unan of our young boys.

Meditation to Save Oneself from False Love

One of my friends went to Hong Kong where there is
excessive absence of purdah. There, the girls call the men
openly; they call them to the public baths and offer them
massages, and offer to bathe the men. This friend of mine
said to me, "Had I not heard the talks at Khdnqdh Imdddiyyah
Ashrafiyyah, Gulshan Iqbal, Block No. 2, and had I not imagined
the anger and wrath of Allah Ta'ala, the desolateness of the

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graveyard and my entering the grave one day, I would have
fallen into committing adultery."

Hadrat Thanwi rahimahulldh says that there are three types
of false love:

(1) Some people are inclined towards handsome boys and
have no inclination whatsoever towards women.

(2) Some people are inclined towards beautiful women and
detest boys.

(3) Some people are inclined towards both. If they find a
woman, they will disgrace themselves with her. If they
find a boy, they will disgrace themselves with him.

Now tell me, does this not entail disrespect to beauty? 1 am
not talking about women only; 1 am also referring to the
young handsome boys. When you are in love with a
handsome boy, go to the graveyard and see what has
happened to his hair and cheeks. Look at how his limbs
with which he committed sins have been reduced to soil.
Everything has been reduced to soil. Go and look for those
cheeks which you were kissing and those eyes which
enchanted you. Go to the graveyard and see where all that
sweetness has gone to. 1 have a poem in this regard:

Do not destroy your life over something which is going to be

reduced to soil.
Sacrifice your youth for the Being who blessed you with this

youth.

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The Destructiveness of False Love

Some people tell me that 1 speak a lot about false love and
evil glances. 1 say to them that if a village is plagued by
cholera, what should we worry about, colds and flu, or
cholera? Evil glances, open display of beauty, videos,
cinemas, film songs, etc. are totally destroying our youth.

you who are sitting in your homes like ducks! What do
you know as to what is happening? As long as the
desolateness of beauty and the conditions of the graveyard
are not explained, the iman of our youngsters will be
destroyed by these women who are parading nakedly
everywhere.

1 saw a youngster belonging to a noble and distinguished
family whose face had gone pale. His cheekbones were
sticking out and his eyes were gone hollow. 1 asked him,

"What is happening to you? Are you suffering from
tuberculosis? He replied, "No, one boy showed me a
pornographic film. Six months have passed since and I have not
performed saldh. I am in an impure state all the time. My
thoughts are going to that film all the time. When I am in
prostration, the same thoughts come to me. When I perform
saldh and go into prostration, that pornographic film comes to
my mind."

Ah! If Akhtar speaks about the destruction of this ummah
by speaking a lot about this topic, then some foolish people
make this objection that why is this topic dealt with so
often? 1 am also a physical hakim. Some weak and frail
youngsters constantly come to me and say to me, "I am
going to poison myself. I have disgraced myself so much by
committing adultery that I have no strength left. I am going to
get married soon. Treat me so that I may get back my strength."

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Why did they have to take this poison? I have a poem in
this regard:

The one who became engrossed with women had to resort to
taking poison.

There are two meanings to this: (1) If a person becomes
separated and did not get a woman, he would be
overtaken by grief, resort to arsenic (poison) and die. (2) If
he gets his beloved, he had wasted so much of his sexual
strength that he became impotent. He now has to resort to
taking arsenic. Therefore, in both situations - attachment
(obtaining the beloved) and detachment (separation from
the beloved) - he had to take arsenic.

I have so many stories portraying the destructiveness of
false love, that if I were to write about the destructiveness
of the conflict between beauty and love, the destruction of
health, and the desolateness of unan, it would result in a
book of 5000 pages. I have written a concise book titled
"The remedies to the spiritual maladies" It is available from
the bookshop. Read this book.

Where Does the Sanctity of a Woman Lie?

If any person does not like this topic of mine, he must
leave my khanqah. Neither should any man nor any
woman who does not have affinity with my talks attend
my talks. Nor should that woman attend who says that she
feels agitated when I talk about the desolateness of beauty
and the indignity of women.

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Now tell me, if 1 talk about the desolateness and
destructiveness of beauty so that the unan of the youth can
be saved, and they may be saved from the women who are
waking nakedly in this movie-world, does this entail
indignity of women or their sanctity and honour? By
speaking about their fleeting beauty, 1 am saving them
from the hankering of immoral and sinful people. It is
another matter if a woman is so promiscuous that she feels
that people who hear my talks will show less attention to
her beauty. Such unworthy women are not addressed.

1 have no need for such souls who feel agitated by my
talks. 1 am announcing again: if anyone does not gain
benefit from my talks, he or she should conclude that he or
she has no affinity with me. They should therefore not try
to rectify my talks - neither the men nor the women. If a
sick man or a sick woman tries to correct the doctor, it is
his duty to expel him or her from the hospital.

Tell me, can a woman who is selling potatoes or vegetables
go and advise a doctor and tell him, "Why are you
prescribing a 250mg capsule when a smaller capsule can
do the work?" In like manner, a person who is spiritually
sick cannot go to his spiritual doctor and tell him why are
you speaking so much on this topic? 1 am engaged in this
work for the past twenty years. People come and thank me
and tell me that before listening to my talks, they were
living a very dangerous life. Through the blessings of these
talks, they received salvation from the infatuation of false
love and women.

The pious women who are in purdah and are the pious
servants of Allah Ta'ala are not addressed. We are in need
of their supplications. When such women phone me, 1 ask
them to supplicate for my health. Sometimes a woman tells

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me that she is going for 'umrah and I must supplicate for
her. I also request her to supplicate for me. 1 consider such
women to be the pious servants of Allah Ta'ala. 1
personally praise them. As for the women whose evils 1
speak about, 1 am referring to those despicable women
who walk around naked without purdah in the shopping
centres. One must at least use one's intelligence. Man
should not be so foolish and stupid. Try to understand
what 1 mean. 1 am not disparaging women. 1 truly respect
and honour the women who are the pious servants of
Allah Ta'ala. 1 am in need of their supplications. 1
constantly request them to remember me in their
supplications. When we talk about the desolation of
someone's beauty, we are referring to those women who
are standing nakedly at the bus stops, who attend
educational institutes where there is intermingling of the
sexes, who tempt the boys and are destroying the iman of
our youngsters. Can 1 accord any respect to such beauty? 1
send curses to according respect to such beauty which
destroys the unan of our youngsters.

The Disgraceful Occupation of Air
Hostesses

1 have the occasion to travel by plane a lot. 1 have seen
with my very eyes girls from respectable families. They
have no head covering, they are running around with
food, they are sitting right next to the pilots and other
young workers with their legs touching these young men,
and joking and laughing with them. Once 1 was sitting
next to my shaikh and we were going for 'umrah or hajj.
An airhostess touched my knee with her knee and sat
down next to me. We immediately informed the
responsible people and our friends who were there to tell
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in-law and daughters who are on display here. Now you
tell me, is their beauty being disparaged over there or from
the talks of Akhtar? You are not grieving over the fact that
your daughter-in-law and daughters are outside without
purdah, and men are casting evil glances at them. You do
not see any indignity in that. May Allah Ta'ala remove the
torment of the intellects of those who phoned me. This
absence of purdah and false love have caused such
dangerous conditions that one's hairs will stand on end
merely from listening to them. 1 will relate two such stories
to you.

An Admonitory Consequence of Not
Observing Purdah

Hadrat Maulana Thanwi rahimahulldh explains that before
the partition of India there was a person who took his
modem wife to enjoy the mountainous air of Shimlah. Just
as we in Pakistan have Murri, there is Shimlah in India. In
those days, the British had their bungalows there. It was
summer and two guards were sitting on their horses with
guns in their hands and guarding a bungalow of a British
officer. This person was dressed in modem western attire
with a tie, had his young wife dressed in fashionable
clothes with plenty of make-up because this was a
"modem era," we are educated people and we are progressive
people. Allah forbid - the ancient era ofRasululldh (Sallellaho
alaihe wasallam) is long gone. Now listen to the pimishment
of not observing purdah of this progressive age as related
by Hakim al-Ummah Thanwi rahimahulldh and which 1 am
conveying to you in this musjid.

One year had passed since these two guards had come
from London. The fire of passion was burning in them.
Now tell me, what would their condition be when this

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woman was exposed before them? O you transgressors! It
is for this reason that I tell you to show mercy to
yourselves. You can still take benefit from this talk of
mine. If you still find no benefit in it, give up coming to
this khanqah. You will purchase a kilo of meat and conceal
it [on your way home] lest it is taken away by someone.
You will purchase a litre of milk but conceal it from the cat
lest it drinks the milk. If you have a thousand rupees in
your pocket, you will keep your hand in your pocket lest it
gets stolen by pickpockets. You do all this despite all these
items not having the ability to go away on their own. The
money does not have the ability to leave your pocket and
go into the hand of the pickpocket. The milk does not have
the ability to go away to the cat. The meat does not have
the ability to fly away. However, a woman has the ability
to go away somewhere on her own. We constantly read in
the newspapers of women who fell in love with someone
and eloped with him, having run away from her parents.

O you who place value to one litre of milk!

O you who place value to one kilo of meat!

you who place your hand in your pocket in order to
safeguard your money!

Don't you feel ashamed at sending your daughter-in-law
and daughters alone out of the house?

1 lived in Nazimabad for twenty years. A friend of mine
who was a principal in a college there related an incident
to me. He said, "A person came to me and said, 'My daughter
has not come home for the past three days. Check in your register
whether she was marked present or not?' 1 said to him, 'Your
daughter was present for all the subjects. If she does not go home
after college, we are not responsible.' The father said, 'Ok, ok.

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No one must reprimand her. As long as she is not absent from
college, I have no problem. She can be anywhere else, she can be
living with a boy, I have no objection.' After relating this
incident to me, the principal began crying because he was
an adherent of the Sharf ah, regular in salah, and a pious
man.

Therefore, if 1 talk about the illness of false love and a
person does not like what 1 say, instead of benefiting from
me he makes objections to my repeating the same subject
matter, then 1 say to him: Go to Mufti Rashid Ahmad
Sahib, go to Maulana Sub-han Mahmud Sahib, go to
Maulana Taqi 'Uthmani Sahib, go to Maulana Mufti Wall
Hasan Sahib - in short, many elders are conducting
assemblies, and he may attend them and leave Akhtar.
Such a person will not even benefit by coming here. If a
person is suffering from cholera, 1 will give him an
injection for his cholera. Therefore, anyone having no
affinity with me should not attend my assembly. Hakim al-
Ummah Thanwi rahimahullah said that two people always
benefit from the pious:

(1) The person who has intense love for that personality
and every single thing which he says therefore appeals to
him.

(2) He is extremely intelligent and gauges the fine points
from everything that is said. If a person is stupid or not a
true lover [of the shaikh], who does not have good
thoughts [about the shaikh] - such people cannot benefit
from the shaikh.

1 am announcing again: Give up your thoughts of
rectifying me. A sick person does not have the right to
rectify the doctor. If you find my talks good and beneficial.

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you are most welcome. I will make du'd' for you in 'Arafat,
Mina, Muzdalifah, in front of the blessed grave of
RasuluUah (Sallellaho alaihe wasallam), in front of the
House of Allah [Ka'bah], 1 will say, "O Allah! Do not deprive
the person who comes to my khdnqdh. Make him Your devoted
servant."

Value my du'ds, moans and sighs. That woman is most
unworthy and foolish who phones me and tells me that 1
am humiliating and disgracing women when 1 talk about
the consequences of false beauty. If that woman is not
present here today, the women who are here must convey
this message to her that she must never come here in
future. 1 always speak on this subject which has spread like
cholera and through which the children of the ummah are
being destroyed.

Ah! If only some Maulana or some pious person had
taught that couple who had went to Shimlah by saying, "O
son! Do not take your wife without purdah out of the house. It
must not happen that the honour of your wife is snatched away."
Consequently, those two guards threatened that "modern"
husband with their guns, dragged his uncovered wife, and
raped her right in front of her husband. This is mentioned
by Hadrat Thanwi rahimahullah. You want to become
modem? You want to take your wives without purdah and
display their nakedness in the shopping centres? Look at
the consequence of this evil: the modern husband wearing
a tie is standing and watching while his wife is being
raped. He is watching what is happening but has no power
to do anything because they had guns with them.

If this woman was wearing a hurqa', this would not have
happened. Till today, no woman in hurqa' was raped. If she
was, it was because she was not in purdah before that.

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Had she been in purdah, she would have been
safeguarded. It is for this reason that Allah Ta'ala issued
an order to His servants warning them against casting
glances towards another person's wife, daughter,
daughter-in-law, aunt, sister, and mother. This is what is
known as the dignity of the woman. There is no dignity in
my giving up this topic while you walk around like a
stallion. If you really desire your reformation, you will
have to listen to what 1 say. Tell me! Where does a
woman's dignity lie, in piety or in disobeying Allah Ta'ala
where she displays her beauty to such an extent that
people are trapped into falling in love with her?

Women who remain in purdah, who perform salah and
keep fast, we personally ask them to supplicate in our
favour. All praise is due to Allah that there are many
Allah-fearing women in this gathering whose
supplications we yearn for. They will even bear witness
that when any of them phones me, 1 request her to
remember me in her supplications. If 1 had no respect in
my heart for those mothers and sisters, why would 1
request them to supplicate for me? What 1 really desire is
that no one should steal the honour of your daughters.
Keep them in purdah and make them wear the hurqa'. It is
part of the destructiveness of non-purdah that people
entice women, rape them and destroy their lives. It is for
this reason we are commanded that when we leave the
house, we must wear purdah. If you have to go to a
wedding, wear simple clothes so that no eyes fall on your
beauty. Your beauty is for your husband.

1 always tell my friends that when they see any handsome
boy, they must immediately say, "O Allah! Let his beauty be
a blessing for his wife." Tell me! Is it not permissible for a
wife to kiss her young handsome husband? In like manner.

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if your eyes unwittingly fall on a beautiful woman, say, "O

Allah! Let her beauty be a blessing for her husband."

Marital Life is Destroyed through Casting
Evil Glances

Many sorrowful women come crying to me for ta'widh
(amulets) and say, "My husband is trapped in this movie-
world and is inclined towards other women. He is treating me
like dirt." Ah! How sorrowful! Virtually every house is
caught up in the worship of lust, and yet 1 am told not to
talk on this subject. Listen! 1 have been so affected by this
foolishness [of the person who phoned me and told me not
to speak on this subject] and 1 am so grieved by it that it
knows no limits. Most of the women cry on the phone and
tell me that because of the nudity that is displayed in the
shopping centres, they have been denied the attentive eyes
of their husbands. The husband looks at other women and
tells her that she is not so beautiful, he is imfortimate, and
his mother did not look at his wife-to-be properly. The
reason for this is that Satan focuses more light on the
women walking on the streets and mesmerizes the men.
Consequently, the women on the streets appear more
beautiful, while one's wife appears less beautiful. These
are satanic plots. Be content with the wife which Allah
Ta'ala gave you. It is mentioned in the Ahadith that these
Muslim wives of ours will - inshd Allah - be made more
beautiful than the doe-eyed damsels of Paradise. Consider
a stranger thing to be strange. Can there be a more foolish
person than he who looks at something belonging to
someone else and then hankers after it and causes his heart
to palpitate for it?

About fifteen years ago, a person was admitted into
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observe purdah. His wife and family members came
crying to me, and asked me to supplicate for him and give
them a ta'widh. 1 also cried a lot before Allah Ta'ala. The
man was saved and the family which was going through
this trauma was also saved. It is for this reason that 1 say
that it is most important to speak on this subject. There are
many unmarried girls who have established a relationship
of reformation and rectification with me. They write to me
and tell me that they derive immense benefit from my
talks, they are saved from casting evil glances, and they go
to the extent of not even looking at the pictures of men in
the newspapers. Tell me, are these young girls deriving
benefit or not? All praise is due to Allah Ta'ala that at least
this much benefit is derived where 1 am receiving letters
from these women and they are phoning me to tell me that
they are supplicating for me and for my long life because
they have given up many sins by attending my assemblies.

The Patient Does Not Have the Right to
Object to His Doctor

But what can 1 say about that mad woman who injured my
heart. May Allah Ta'ala save everyone from such
foolishness. 1 supplicate to Allah Ta'ala to guide her. If she
has no affinity with me and does not benefit from my
talks, 1 supplicate that she never comes here because it is
useless for her to come here. If you are not deriving any
benefit, why are you wasting your life? Go away to other
'ulamd', but do not have the audacity to rectify the doctor.
That woman tried to rectify me over the phone, whereas
what right does a patient have to advise the doctor? If you
are not benefiting from my treatment, go to some other
doctor, go and admit yourself into some other hospital.
This is a hospital for spiritual ailments. Do not consider
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everywhere these days. Does this mean that you can go
and catch the ear of any speaker you like [and tell him
whatever you want]? This is a spiritual hospital. Here, no
patient has the right to come and advise me. If anyone is
benefiting, he may stay. If not, he may go. Khwajah Sahib
says:

&<'

/^

The person who can neither see a majdhub^ nor an ascetic may

leave here.

If a person is a sceptic, then why has he come here?

If a person wants to act intelligent, he must go somewhere else.

But if a person wants to become mad [in the love of Allah

Ta'ala], he must come here.

The person who is prepared to be injured a hundred times may

come here with expectation and obliviousness.

Akhtar is not in need of you. My honour lies with Allah
Ta'ala. Shamsuddin Tabrezi rahimahullah had just one
khalifah, Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi rahimahullah but his
word spread throughout the world. For the past twenty
years, 1 am hearing thanks of people for my talks, and

A person who is totally immersed in the love of Allah.

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receiving their supplications in my favour. For the first
time in twenty years, I received a phone call telling me that
my disparagement of beauty is an indignity to women.

Disparaging Beauty Does Not Entail
Indignity to Anyone

Is dignity being shown to women by her walking naked on
the streets? 1 am directing my disparagement to those
women not in purdah and whose beauty is entrapping
people and destroying them. 1 also include the young boys
in my disparagement of false beauty. Many people have
the sickness of falling in love with young boys. The cheeks
and black hair of these young boys are included in my
disparagement of them. What beauty will there remain
after these boys become old. 1 have a poem in this regard:

li^ Jl- J/(>f L-L- J/

No sooner the back became bent, they became like a bow. Some
became grandfathers and others became grandmothers.

Is any indignity being shown to anyone in this poem? 1
will say to that woman who phoned me that she must go
to the grave of Maulana Rumi rahimahuMh in Qunia [in
Turkey] and say the same thing which she said to me over
the phone: that my disparagement of false beauty is an
indignity to women. Now listen to the poem of Maulana
Rumi rahimahuMh about the fall of fleeting beauty:

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people! O believers! The person whose hair is black,
whose hair has a dense and thick growth, which is
emanating with the fragrance of musk, and which is
causing you to lose your mind P^y such beauty], do not
believe in it, and do not give your life for it. When these
women with long black hair will become old, their plaits of
hair will look like the tail of an old donkey.

Who is saying this? Akhtar is conveying to you the
meaning of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumfs rahimahullah
Persian poem. Beware! Do not be entrapped by a woman's
long black hair. When she gets old, it will look like the tail
of an old donkey.

7 Ji C^j fj si >T

In this poem, the word peer means old, and khar means a
donkey. On what are you placing your belief? On what are
you giving your life? Now you must say that you are not
going to read the works of Maulana Rumi rahimahullah as
well because it also demonstrates indignity towards
women. Listen! Take your dignity and go somewhere else.

1 do not want such women listening to my talks. Nor such
men who have no intelligence. Such immature people will
not benefit from me. They are wasting their lives
unnecessarily. 1 am saying to that woman, beware! Don't
ever come here. Tell me, do the youngsters learn from the
poem of Maulana Rumi rahimahullah or not? Tell me, is the
iman of the ummah not being protected by this poem?

A Pious Husband Loves his Wife the Most

Now let me tell you something else. If your husband also
hears this poem, will he look down on his wife? In fact, his
gaze will be saved from others. Listen, through these

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poems, through these talks of mine, and through the grace
of Allah Ta'ala, the more a woman's husband becomes
Allah-conscious, the more he will abhor the cheeks and
hair of those women who are walking about without
purdah, and the more respect he will accord to his wife. 1
am conveying this principle to you that the more pious a
husband becomes, the more love for his wife increases.
This is because if his heart is averse to the cheeks and black
hair of other women, your value will increase. But if your
husband casts his glances about and shows appreciation
for the beauty of other women, you can well imagine what
your condition will be.

Stupidity is the Torment of Allah Ta'^ala

There is a limit to these evil thoughts. If 1 were to say that
because of sinning and because of disobedience to Allah
Ta'ala, if any person experiences pleasure and enjoyment
{'ishrat), then may such pleasure and enjoyment be cursed.
Now this Tshrat Sahib [referring to Hadrat's special
attendant] who is sitting here will stand up and tell me
that 1 have disparaged him p^ecause 1 used the word 'ishrat
which means enjoyment]. Now at least try to understand
my subject matter and what type of 'ishrat 1 am cursing. 1
am referring to the 'ishrat which is acquired by
disobedience to Allah Ta'ala. Stupidity is actually a
torment from Allah Ta'ala as punishment for a certain sin.
It is a divine punishment for which there is no treatment.

Hazrat Tsa (Alaihis salaam) was fleeing from a stupid
person. One of his followers said to him, "Hadrat, why don't
you get rid of his stupidity! When you pass your hand over a
leper, he is cured. When you pass your hand over a blind person,
his sight is restored. You also cure those who have white skin
disease. But how is it that you are fleeing from a stupid person!

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Pass your hand over him as well and his stupidity will be
cured." Hazrat 'Isa (Alaihis salaam) said, "Stupidity is a
punishment and torment from Allah Ta'ala. This torment of
Allah Ta'ala will only go if he repents."

I am therefore saying that from today, no one is to phone
me with such advice nor is anyone to write any such letter
to me. My shaikh is sufficient for my rectification. You
must not worry about my rectification. If my medication is
not benefiting you, leave my clinic, leave my hospital,
leave my khanqah and go to the other khanqahs. Patients
who want to rectify the doctors will not find a cure for
themselves.

Making Objections to the Shaikh is a Sign of
Deprivation

MuUa 'All Qari rahimahulldh writes:

(374 -.jfi <.! -.^ c«is>i)

The person who makes an objection to his shaikh and looks with
scorn at him will never be successful.

Hazrat Haji ImdaduUah Sahib rahimahulldh says that the
more good thoughts, respect, and honour a person has for
his spiritual guide (shaikh), the more he will benefit from
him. This path is the path of the friends of Allah Ta'ala.
This is a spiritual path. These people who are moving
around like leaders and delivering talks and then sitting
like pious people without having rectified and reformed
themselves under a pious personality, it is people like
them who make objections to everything which the pious
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and insolence from the very beginning. To lay objections is
the essence of their religion. They do not even leave the
Sahabah and the Prophets. They make objections against
everyone by saying that such and such person has this
wrong, and such and such person has that wrong. The
path of our elders is the path of respect. It is not the path of
those who write literature of this nature.

••J •• iS

Allah! We ask You for inspiration towards showing respect as
a disrespectful person is deprived of the bounty of Allah Ta'ala.

The Treatment for False Love

1 am now going to show you the treatment for false love.
Tell me, if that boy who stopped performing salah for six
months, whose face was gone pale and whose bones were
sticking out, had he not come to me, would he not have
died? 1 then showed him the treatment. The illness of false
love comes out with much difficulty. It takes a person's life
away, it conveys him to the graveyard. Therefore,
everyone must listen attentively. Hakim ul Ummah
Mujaddid ul Millah Maulana Ashraf 'All Thanwi
rahimahullah provides one treatment. He says that if your
eyes fall on a beautiful woman and love for her is not
coming out of the heart, then listen to this treatment for
false love, listen to this treatment for removing the love of
all apart from Allah Ta'ala from the heart.

(1) Wear clean clothes, apply perfume, and read La ildha
illalldh 500 times. When you say La ildha, then imagine that
you have completely expelled all the idols which are
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imagine that the light of Allah Ta'ala has entered your
heart, and that this reading of yours has reached the
greatest Throne ('Arsh) and met Allah Ta'ala.

A Hadith of Mishkdt states that when a servant reads La
ildha illalldh on earth, it traverses the seven heavens and
meets Allah Ta'ala. A narration oi Mishkdt states:

ill JjS L)i^ i^ ^ ill "ii 4]) "i

There is no barrier preventing Ld ildha illalldh reaching Alldh

Ta'ala

So if a person gets the inspiration to read Ld ildha illalldh he
must understand that he has been able to meet Allah
Ta'ala, the Most Affectionate One, through it. Although we
are unable to go to Him, this reading of ours is meeting
Allah Ta'ala. Ask the true lovers the value of this.

A poet says:

0\ii 4i ^' ^^^' -C' I4' ^ t^

It is sufficient for just one lamentation of ours to reach there
even though we engage in many lamentations and appeals.

Inshd Alldh, through the blessing of Ld ildha illalldh, the
appearance of the heart will change within a few days.
Even if a person became insane and he was taking Valium
5 and Valium 10 (sleeping pills), he will give up all this
and will get sleep through the blessing of the name of
Allah Ta'ala.

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(2) Imagine that we have died and the body parts with
which we are committing sins are being eaten by worms in
the grave. Also imagine that boy or woman being in the
grave and thousands of worms are crawling on their
bodies. Look! 1 always talk about the destiny of the fleeting
beauty of both boys and girls. 1 don't know how insane
and stupid that woman can be who is getting the
impression that when 1 speak about the destiny of fleeting
beauty, it demonstrates indignity to women, and that 1
must not disparage their cheeks. Nevertheless, imagine
that boy or girl whom you are in love with, and think
about yourself as well as to what your condition will be in
the grave. Worms will be carrying away your eyes. They
will be eating your cheeks. They will be moving around
with every single strand of hair. Whether it is the boy or
girl whom you are in love with, all their body parts will be
scattered. 1 am talking about those women who are not in
purdah. Do not fall into their trap. Inshd Allah, if you
imagine all this, your heart will develop the strength to
save itself from hardm places. 1 am not prohibiting you
from what is haldl. You can certainly fulfil the right of your
halal wife with total love, but abstain from the hardm. 1
have a poem in this regard:

PV/zen I am not given haldl wine, why should I sneak and drink

hardm wine?

Those who are not married or their wives are gone sick or
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So what is the first treatment? Read La ildha illalldh 500
times and include Muhammadur RasuluUdh occasionally as
well. Inshd Alldh, through the blessings of this, the heart
will be purified of all apart from Allah Ta'ala, and it will
be filled with the love of Allah Ta'ala. Secondly, think
about yourself that you will have to go into the grave one
day and the boy or girl whom you love will also have to go
into the grave one day. Imagine that the bodies of both
have become decomposed and reduced to soil. Now dig
up both their graves and ask their soil - the soil of the
beloved boy and of the beloved girl - O soil! Where have
all your kisses and licks gone to? Where have all those
body parts with which you used to commit sins gone to?
You departed with curses from this world. A poet says:

>*ut^i(^*ui^;<^

The pious servants have departed from this world, hut their ways

and habits are remembered. The wretched servants have departed

but their sins and immoralities are discussed and curses are

being sent to them.

Look at the condition of the film actors. Look at how much
evil glances these naked women are inviting towards! All
these curses will fall on them as well. The sin of all the
deceased who looked at these women who displayed
themselves with lust will fall on these women as well.

(3) The third treatment for false love is that you must
imagine that the Resurrection is taking place. Allah Ta'ala
is asking you, "Where did you waste your youth? Where did
you use your eyes ? Did your parents give you these eyes or did I
create these eyes in your mother's womb and placed in them the
ability to seel"

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These lips of yours will also speak on the day of
Resurrection. Allah Ta'ala says:

ijjo uj jj-g^ji J-g-iJj («-^.^.' lu-bOj ji^ijfli ^Js- j^^^ij *jJi

(65 iSjJ c^. «jj-^)

T/iis Day shall We sef a sea/ on their mouths, and their hands

shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness to whatever

they used to earn."

Allah Ta'ala shall set a seal on your mouths, and your
hands and feet shall speak. What will they say? Maulana
Rumi rahimahullah depicts this as follows:

The hand will say: "O Allah! We used to pick pockets, we used to

steal." The lips will testify: "We used to kiss non-mahram

women and young boys."

Now go to Qunia in Turkey, go to the grave of Maulana
Rumi rahimahullah and say to him that he was also
disrespectful towards beauty.

The lips will say: "O Allah! This wretched person used to kiss
non-mahram girls and boys with these lips."

On the Day of Resurrection you will learn how much of
respect and dignity is being accorded to your lips. You will
be asked, did you not know:

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When you do something in privacy away from the people,
Someone from the heavens is watching you.

Remaining Aloof from Beautiful Boys and
Girls is the Only Way to Save Oneself from

Sin

I now explained three treatments. The fourth treatment is
that you must not go near these people, whether boy or
girl. Hazrat Sa'di Shirazi rahimahullah says that when there
is a lot of mud, even elephants slip and fall. Allah Ta'ala
did not say do not commit adultery. What did He say? He
said do not even go near adultery. This is because it is in
the nature of man that when he remains with beautiful
people, one day he will commit the sin with them. Now if
Pakistani Airways employs a woman, can anyone save
himself from falling in love with her?

Remember! Remain far from beauty - whether boy or girl.
Flee from there or else you will not be able to save
yourself. 1 say it time and again, those who remained near
boys and girls were eventually caught in sin. Now there is
no respect for beards also. You should therefore not rely
on the strength of your self-restraint that you will not be
soiled by sin. Allah Ta'ala has already told us that we are
weak:

lA^yJ ">^ ill Sj^ iiUj

(187 :3j.T iijiJ\ «jj^)

Those are the limits set by Allah, so do not go near them.
(Surah al-Baqarah, 2: 187)

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Do not go near the limits set by Allah because you are
weak. The one who tries to show his bravery will be
disgraced by Satan. If not, after one day, after six months
the poison of her love will gradually penetrate you, and
you will be caught sinning with that same girl or boy. You
should therefore remain aloof from girls, and from
handsome young boys. In fact, remain aloof from boys
with small beards towards whom you are sexually
inclined.

The Bounty of the Company of the Pious

Friends, the fifth treatment is very enjoyable. There is no
hardship in it and it is most pleasurable. What is it? No
matter which friend of Allah Ta'ala you have love for and
affinity with, go to him, remain in his company, and
establish a relationship of reformation and rectification
with him. You tell me, if a person has love for a religious
mentor, does he not enjoy looking at him? Ah! It is so
enjoyable that Mufti Muhammad Hasan Amretsari
rahimahuMh - the foimder of Jami'ah Ashrafiyyah Lahore,
a great hafiz, 'dlim and mufti - said to Hadrat Thanwi
rahimahuMh: "O my shaikh! If I were to look at you just once,
and then remain in prostration for 1000 years in order to express
my gratitude to Allah Ta'ala for this bounty, I will not be able to
fulfil the right of this bounty."

So this fifth treatment - that is, remaining in the company
of the close friends of Allah Ta'ala - is the soul of Islam.
Islam spread through this. Akbar llahabadi rahimahuMh
says:

ijii ^Z* Su^A ^ t--^ c/-»

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Deen is not acquired from books, lectures and riches. Rather, it is
truly acquired from the company of the pious.

Listen to this: The sole manner in which Islam spread was
through the gaze of prophet-hood. Islam spread through
the gaze of RasuluUah (Salellaho alaihe wasallam). Islam
then spread through the gaze of the Sahabah (Radhiallaho
anhum). It then spread through the gaze of the Tabi'un.
Islam then spread from that time till today through the
gaze of the true friends {auliyd') of Allah Ta'ala. This chain
will continue till the Day of Resurrection. My subject is
now concluded.

Pakistan is an Islamic State

A programme was held here on 14* August. These days,
people do not understand the word nizdm (system). 1 am
therefore forced to use the English word, programme. 1 am
advising all of you to try to obtain a recording of my
programme, which was conducted on the 14* of August. 1
have provided with proofs that Pakistan is an Islamic state.

Hakim-ul-Ummah Mujaddid-ul-Millah Maulana Ashraf
'All Sahib Thanwi rahimahulldh who was the shaikh of
personalities like Mufti Muhammad Shaff Sahib
rahimahulldh, says that an Islamic state is defined as: the
head of state is a Muslim and he has the power to
promulgate Islamic law. Because of human weakness or
weakness of iman, he is intimidated by another country
or is intimidated by conditions in his country, and is
therefore unable to promulgate Islamic injunctions, then
such a country will still be considered to be an Islamic
state. Since he did not utilize his strength, the Muslim
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the country will be considered to be Islamic if the ruler is
able to promulgate Islamic law.

Based on this definition, all the countries which have
Muslim heads of state are all Islamic countries. Pakistan is
therefore an Islamic country irrespective of whether the
leaders have the power or not. If a person gives his life in
the protection of a single inch of Pakistani land, he will be
a martyr. Pakistan was created through the sighs, moans
and supplications of our elders and the auliyd' of Allah
Ta'ala. Those 'ulamd' and auliyd are before me who strove
for the creation of this country. My shaikh. Shah 'Abdul
Ghani Sahib rahimahulldh was from among them.
Therefore, we supplicate to Allah Ta'ala to protect this
country and save us from the slavery of the Hindus. Some
foolish people are making statements like this: "It is better
for the Hindus to take this country away." Ld haula wa Id
quvjwata Hid billdh. What a serious statement! May Allah
Ta'ala enable such persons to repent and may He pardon
them. This is a very serious statement.

Who is Eligible for Ties of Kinship?

There is something else, which 1 have to say. Many people
show disregard to this matter these days.

Fear Alldh through whom you ask of one another for mutual
rights, and be mindful of your relatives. (Surah an-Nisd', 4: 1)

[The above verse has the word] arhdm which is from rahim.
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confined to their parents. However, 'AUamah Alusi as-
Sayyid Mahmud Baghdad! rahimahuUdh states in Ruh al-
Ma'dni that after marriage, a person's father-in-law and
mother-in-law become equal to one's own parents. In other
words, just as it is necessary for one to be respectful to
one's parents, and just as one's parents and grandparents
have rights over a person, in like manner, the relatives of
one's wife also enjoy the same rights. In other words, they
are also included in the order of maintaining ties of
kinship. 1 now present the text of Ruh al-Ma'dni:

? o^o^

This refers to genealogical relatives and those who become
relatives by way of marriage.

Control the Tongue

The other thing is that you should rectify your speech.
Allah Ta'ala says:

(70 :3jJ i>-i\jp-H\ «jj--)

And speak honourable words. (Surah al-Ahzdb, 33: 70)

In other words, do not utter anything in anger or else you
will regret later on and you will not be able to rectify this.
Therefore, when you say anything, say that which would
unite. Do not utter such painful things which would cause
ill feeling and disunity.

When is it Sunnah to Get Married?

The last thing which 1 want to say is that marriage is a
Sunnah of RasuluUah (Sallellaho alaihe wasallam).

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RasuluUah (Sallellaho alaihe wasallam) said that the
person who does not marry is not from me, I have no
connection with him. This refers to people who do not
marry despite having the means to do so. If a person is
excused, has no alternative, is unable to provide for a wife,
does not have a house, is always refused when he
proposes, is gone old to the extent that he can only find an
old woman while he has no affinity with such a woman,
then marriage does not remain Sunnah in such cases.
There were many auliyd' of the past who did not marry,
e.g. Hadrat Bishr Hafi rahimahuUdh, Shaikh Muhiyyuddin
Abu Zakariyya Nawawi rahimahuUdh - the commentator of
Muslim Sharif- 'AUamah Taftazani rahimahuUdh and others.
You should therefore not look down upon anyone. In other
words, if a person is not married, do not think that he is
abandoning the Sunnah. There were many auUyd' who,
because of constrained circumstances, were excused from
getting married. So if you see someone unmarried, think to
yourself that he may have some good reason for this.

1 now supplicate that Allah Ta'ala accepts whatever was
said and heard, and enables us to practise on it. Amin.

Our final prayer is that all praise belongs to Allah,
The Lord of the worlds

All praise is due to Allah Ta'ala for enabling us to
complete the translation of this book. May Allah Ta'ala
accept it from us and may it be a means of our reformation
in this world, and salvation in the Hereafter.

Mahomed Mahomedy

13 Jumada al-Ukhra 1430 A.H.

07 June 2009

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