By Shaykh Muhammad ibn Haroon Abasoomar
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‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘Ās (Allah be pleased with him) reports that Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “Whoever passes away on a Friday will be saved from the punishment of the grave.”
(Musnad Ahmad, 2:220; hadīth 7050, 6646)
By Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘
Translated by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Haroon Abasoomar
Because the lifespan of this ummah compared to the other ummahs is short, Allāh, through His grace has specified a night in which the reward for His worship is multiplied up to more than a thousand months. However Allāh has kept its exact date concealed from the people so that they will exert themselves in searching for this blessed night. This results in them acquiring even more reward. Laylatul Qadr is most likely to occur on one of the odd nights of the last 10 nights of Ramadān i.e. the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th or 29th night. It is even more likely to occur on the 27th night.
By Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi
Translated by Shaykh Yusuf Karaan
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:
“Because of the fact that Ramadan in Ta’if (Saudi Arabia) was a time of great unrest and upheavals, people could not obtain the necessary foodstuffs they needed and neither could they perform the tarawih salah in the mosques. The masjid of Ibn ‘Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) is the largest masjid in the area and even there too tarawih was performed of the last ten surahs. Even then too very few people attended, while the rest either prayed in their local masjids or at home.
By Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi
Translated by Shaykh Yusuf Karaan
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).
He had great love for the recitation of the Qur’an. He was himself a hafidh and it was one of his general habits to spend practically the whole of the night in tilawah (recitation). Of the whole twenty-four hours of the day it was hardly ever that he slept for one hour during the night. He loved solitude and felt depressed at the presence of people in his company as it robbed him of the opportunity of tilawah. The time between ‘Asr and Maghrib was set aside for meeting the public (as was the time from 9 to 10 in the morning).
By Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi
Translated by Shaykh Yusuf Karaan
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.
Mawlana Muhammad Yaqoob Nanautwi (Allah have mercy on him) writes in Sawanih Qasmi that in Jumada ‘l-Thani 1277 AH, Mawlana Qasim departed for Hajj and arrived in Makkah at the end of Dhu l-Qa’dah. He arrived in Madinah for ziyarah after Hajj in Safar and only returned to arrive in Bombay at the end of Rabi’ al-Awwal. At home he arrived by Jumada ‘l-Thani.
By Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘
Translated by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Haroon Abasoomar
I’tikaf means: to remain in the musjid with the intention of i’tikaf. One may only leave the musjid to fulfil those needs that cannot be fulfilled inside the musjid, e.g. to go to the toilet, to make wudhu, to take a wâjib ghusl (obligatory bath) etc.Mawlana Ismail bin Ebrahim Desai
عن عائشة قالت فقدت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ليلة فخرجت فإذا هو بالبقيع فقال أكنت تخافين أن يحيف الله عليك ورسوله قلت يا رسول الله إني ظننت أنك أتيت بعض نسائك فقال إن الله عز وجل ينزل ليلة النصف من شعبان إلى السماء الدنيا فيغفر لأكثر من عدد شعر غنم كلب
Narrated by ‘A’ishah (Allah be pleased with her): I missed Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and grant him peace) during the night and found him in al-Baqi’. He said: Were you afraid that Allah and His Messenger would deal unjustly with you? I said: Allah’s Messenger, I thought that you had gone to some of your other wives. He (the Prophet) said: Verily Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, comes down to the heaven of the world in “the middle night of Sha’ban” and forgives sins even more abundant than the hair of the goats of Kalb. (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 1:670, Sunan Ibn Majah, 2:1379)
