Compiled by Ibn Rashid Ahmad al-Qasmi
In the dawra tafsir conducted during the Ramadan of 1432 H. Mufti Zar Wali Khan (Allah protect him) [of Jami'ah Arabiyya Ahsan al-'Ulum Karachi] mentions an incident of the humility and generosity of Mawlana Muhammad Qasim
So his wife replied; “Let’s keep the clothes, and give away all the jewellery”. Mawlana Nanautwi was very glad to hear this. Right away, in the middle of the night, he went to Dar al-‘Ulum Deoband and he woke up the munshi (accountant). He told him that a traveler was passing and Allah placed mercy in his heart, so the traveler decided to give some wealth to the madrasah. The 
munshi was greatly surprised at the amount. Mawlana Nanautwi made the munshi prepare a receipt for the amount in the name of “a musafir” (traveler). Then he hurriedly left saying; “let me go and give this to the musafir before he leaves”. All this so that no one would think that Mawlana Nanautwi himself had given this wealth from his own household.
A few words have already been mentioned in Fadha’il al-A’mal about the Ramadan practices of Shaykh al-Hind Mawlana Mahmud al-Hasan Deobandi (Allah have mercy on him). Shaykh al-Islam Mawlana Husain Ahmad Madani (Allah have mercy on him) writes in his book Safarnama Aseer Malta:
The Ramadan of Mawlana Shah ‘Abd al-Rahim Raipuri is also described in Tadhkirah al-Khalil. He was a man with tremendous love and zeal for the teaching of the Qur’an, for which purpose he was instrumental in the erection of numerous Qur’anic schools in the rural areas and in and around the district of Dehradun (Northern India).
Unfortunately I could not ascertain the details of how Mawlana Muhammad Qasim Nanautwi (Allah have mercy on him) spent his Ramadan and today there is no one alive who will be able to supply us with that Hajj journey of 1277 AH when he memorised the whole Qur’an. He daily memorised one juz (part), which was then recited in tarawih that evening.
