What is "Missing a Heart Beat"

     There are so many Blessings of ALLAH which we enjoy daily/regularly but don't know it. One of them is the regular beating of Heart. In our normal life we don't even feel our heart beat. But once it stops even for a short period, its importance is realized.
     I have my first child, a baby boy. I still remember that one day when he was only two months old and I was playing with him that I noticed that his nails need trimming. So, I took a Nail Clipper and tried to cut his nail of his finger. He would not let me do it as being so small he was constantly moving his fingers and hands. So I got hold of one of his fingers and Clipped the nail. He moved and along with the nail a small skin piece of his finger also got clipped and a very tiny drop of blood, almost smaller than a pointed tip of the needle, appeared.
     Oh! my ALLAH!! I still remember that moment. It was as if the world has stopped. My heart stopped beating. This was the first time that I learnt that I have a heart and it was beating a short while ago.
     I can't remember how much time elapsed before my heart started beating again. That stopping of my heart and the pain I still remember and I still can't express my real feelings.

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The famous SAJ Shirazi of Light Within is here at Karachi

The famous SAJ Shirazi of Light Within ( and others 19 blogs at his credit-- The babai blog) is here at Karachi to attend Social Media Diplomacy fro 12--14 Jul 2012. Despite his very busy scheduled he agreed to attend the mini course get together which was arranged at Beach View Club Karachi. Here are few of the glimpses of the function arranged

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FORGIVE / BE FORGIVEN --- FORGIVENESS

        One day while I was driving back home from my office that a voice asked,“Have you forgiven Mr.X”?

        I very angrily said,“No, Never. Him is going to answer me before ALLAH. I will never forgive him. I will seek justice from ALLAH in his case”

  The voice said,“Think over it compassionately and reconsider”.

        I said “Never. He will have to answer and repay”.

I was really angry..........

Well................

         Forgiveness is the quality of ALLAH. Many of our faults are forgiven by ALLAH on daily basis. ALLAH has created Human beings and we seek forgiveness from HIM and HE forgives. Forgiveness is also one of the qualities which are liked by ALLAH as part of we Human’s character. Somehow we seek forgiveness from HIM but, when it comes to forgiving fellow human beings then we show indifferent attitude.

        Quite early in life ALLAH granted me light in this regards with HIS kindness, that forgiving is liked by ALLAH. Since then it become the part of my daily routine that I, at the end of the day, before going to sleep, forgive all whoever has done anything wrong with me. I try not to hurt anyone but, if in case, unconsciously any such thing happens, I make sure that I ask forgiveness.

        Well, question arises as to how one seeks forgiveness. Our beloved Prophet, Muhammad (SAW), in His (SAW) last sermon at Hajjat ul Widah, taught us the way of seeking forgiveness. He (SAW) announced that He (SAW) forgives everybody who has done any wrong to Him (SAW). Now this is the guiding principle for all, that before asking forgiveness from anyone, it is a must that a person shall be forgiven unconditionally.

    Keeping the same principle as a base I then ask forgiveness after first forgiving the person concerned.

      It  happened only once that I did not forgave a person at the end of the day. That person really did very wrong to me. Many people in my life have done wrong to me but this person, really hurt me very badly with his lies against me. I forgave all as per my commitment to myself but him.

Let us call him Mr.X.

        One day while I was driving back home from my office that a voice asked, “Have you forgiven Mr.X”? I very angrily said, “No, Never. Him is going to answer me before ALLAH. I will never forgive him. I will seek justice from ALLAH in his case”.

     The voice said,“Think over it compassionately and reconsider”.

        I said “Never. He will have to answer and repay”. I was really angry.

      The voice kept quiet for a while then asked, “What if on the day of judgment there are some sins left in your balance and ALLAH conditions’ that unless you forgive Mr.X you will not be forgiven”.

     It hit me like a flash. I immediately stopped by the roadside and cried and passionately seeked forgiveness from ALLAH saying, “O ALLAH, I forgive Mr.X. I was wrong and a fool. If YOU don’t forgive me who will. There is nobody who can forgive. YOU like forgiving, only YOU can forgive. Please forgive me”.

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً أَوْ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَمَن يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ
جب ان سے کوئی ناشائستہ کام ہو جائے یا کوئی گناہ کر بیٹھیں تو فوراً اللہ کا ذکر اور اپنے گناہوں کے لئے استغفار کرتے ہیں (١) فی الواقع اللہ تعالٰی کے سوا اور کون گناہوں کو بخش سکتا ہے؟ اور وہ لوگ باوجود علم کے کسی برے کام پر اڑ نہیں جاتے۔
003.135 And those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins - Who forgiveth sins save Allah only ? - and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did.

        After that, to me, a strange thing happened. A feeling of smoothness, relaxation and peace inundated my entire body. A sense of satisfaction and happiness prevailed. I sensed quite distinctly that my act has been liked and that I was forgiven.

So, O people! Do forgive all and see the miracles happening around you.

وَاسْتَغْفِرُوا اللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

 اور اللہ تعالٰی سے بخشش طلب کرتے رہو یقیناً اللہ تعالٰی بخشنے والا مہربان ہے۔

and ask forgiveness of Allah. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Our Lord! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter, and save us from the chastisement of the fire

AAMEEN


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The color that only ALLAH can create. Amazing!

ENJOY THE CREATIONS OF ALLAH



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What a Father

     Let me share another strange experience of my life. I am sure that the readers will be flabbergasted and shocked. 

     It was 1989 and incident happened at Gulgasth Multan, Pakistan. 

     That was a hot summer day and most of the people were retiring in their houses having the afternoon nap. Gulgasth is a posh area of Multan, Pakistan where generally well to do people live in their own houses. 

     The door bell of a house rang and the eldest son of the house, on his father's instructions,  went to the gate to enquire and see who was there. When he opened the gate, three dacoits, with guns in their hands, pushed him and came in. The dacoits placed the gun on the head of  the 15 years old boy and instructed him to take them in the house. So the boy turned, with face white with fear and trembling and crying he started moving towards the main door of the house. There was a yard in between the Gate and the entrance door of the house where beautiful grassy lawn was grown. The distance from the gate to the House’s main door was about 25 to 30 meters. Meanwhile, Mr. Kiani, the owner of the house and father of the boy, came out of house just to enquire who was there on the gate and why is it taking so long. Mr. Kiani, when saw his son on the gun point and Dacoits, immediately realized the situation, ran back in the house, closed and locked the main door of the house and hid himself inside the house. 

     The dacoits, noticing that, pushed the boy hurriedly to the door and while the gun was still on the boys head, demanded from Mr. Kiani to open the door or less they will kill the boy. Mr. Kiani refused. The boy started begging his father for his life and kept requesting him to open the door and give whatever the dacoits were demanding. But, his cries were going waste on the deaf ear of his father. The father rather told the dacoits that even if they kill the boy, he will not open the door. The dacoits fired and placed a bullet in the leg of the boy. But still the father did not listen. The dacoits told him that they will count ten and then will shoot and this time kill his son. They started the count. The dacoits were about to shoot the boy that five/ six people, who were coming out of a nearby mosque after offering their “Asar” prayers, heard the pistol fire and the cries of the boy and came to the gate. After realizing the situation, they challenged the dacoits. The dacoits immediately released their hostage and fled. However, the Mohalla people successfully chased and caught the dacoits and handed them over to the police. 

     This entire episode was narrated by the boy infront of the trial court as a witness statement, where the dacoits were being tried, and I was one of the Judges. 

     I still wonder, how in his life, Mr. Kiani could have faced his son to whom he almost sacrificed in lieu of his material belongings. And mind you, we confirmed that it was the real father of the boy.

     Some how I still cannot believe that a Father could be so cruel to his own Son. What do you think?

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