Category Archives: Awliya (Saints)
Quaid-i-Azam’s message on Iqbal Day
To the cherished memory of our National Poet Iqbal, I pay my homage on this day, which is being celebrated in commemoration of that great poet, sage, philosopher and thinker, and I pray to God Almighty that his soul may rest in eternal peace. Amen!Though he is not amongst us, his verse, immortal as it is, is always there to guide us and to inspire us. His poetry, besides being beautiful in form and sweet in language, presents to us a picture of the mind and heart of this great poet, and we find how deeply he was devoted to the teachings of Islam. He was a true and faithful follower of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), a Muslim first and a Muslim last. He was the interpreter and voice of Islam.Iqbal was not merely a preacher and philosopher. He stood for courage and action, perseverance and self-reliance, and above all faith in God and devotion to Islam. In his person were combined the idealism of the poet and the realism of the man who takes a practical view of things. Faith in God and unceasing and untiring action is the essence of his message. And in this he emerges truly Islam. He had an unflinching faith in Islamic principles, and success in life meant to him the realization of one’s “self”, and to achieve this end the only means was to follow the teachings of Islam. His message to himanity is action and realization of one’s self.Although a great poet and philosopher he was no less a practical politician. With his firm conviction and faith in the ideals of Islam, he was one of the few who originally thought over the feasibility of carving out of India such an Islamic state in the North-West and North-East Zones which are historical homelands of Muslims.I wholeheartedly associate myself with the celebrations of this “Iqbal Day”, and pray that we may live up to the ideals preached by our National Poet so that we may be able to achieve and give a practical shape to these ideals in our sovereign state of Pakistan when established.
In the Footsteps of the Beloved (pbuh): A Brief Biography of Hazrat Badshah Mian Qadri(ra)
Without a doubt, Hazrat Badshah Mian Qadri Hazrat Badshah Mian Qadri (rehmatullahi alayhe) was among the ranks of those who lived in this world solely seeking the pleasure of Allah, Most Exalted, and when he left the world, his prominence became well known as a kamil wali of Allah, a champion of truth, and the righteous—a Qutb of Allah. His life and his other-life was a reflection of the verse of the Qur’an:
Qul inna salatee wa nusukee wa mahyaya wa mamatee lillahi rabbi al-AAa
lameen (6:162)
Say: “Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice,
my life and my death, are (all) for Allah, the Cherisher of the Worlds
He passed on to the Realm of Divine Grace on the 19th of Rabi’uth-Thaani 1421 Hijri in the year 2000 A.C. Those who
attended his janazah (funeral) including Dr. Yunus of Karachi University and others witnessed that a cloud hovered above his Janazah wherever it went with a very pleasant drizzle accompanying them throughout the funeral procession in the sweltering heat of July 22 in the year 2000 A.C.
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In the Footsteps of the Beloved (pbuh):Â A Brief Biography of Hazrat Badshah Mian Qadri(ra)
