<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Advice of Shaykh Ul Islam:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"In Islam, respect (<i>Adab</i>) is emphasized a lot.<span style=""> </span>Respect and reverence is that great treasure, which when there with a nation, that nation keeps covering milestones of progress and success each moment."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"In our religion, <i>Adab</i> is very much needed.<span style=""> </span>As long as this was there in Muslims, they kept progressing."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 11, Pg. No. 1)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is the essence of the universe and the first among the creation.<span style=""> </span>Allah Ta'ala has brought this world into existence only for the sake of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), but to those who deny it, Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam advises:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"When some of our benefactors hear the Hadith: "Lau Laka Lamaa..," they say, by way of taunt and prejudice, this Hadith is baseless in the opinion of the Hadith-experts.<span style=""> </span>They consider this a big thing that the very skies were created, when what is being established there is that if He (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was not to be there, then neither would Jannah have been there nor hell nor this world, all these are because of Him."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 11, Pg. No. 31)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">See what Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says about Milad Un Nabi:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"When Muslims are ordered to celebrate Eid every year for the second life of Hadhrat Ismail (peace be upon him), then how much happy should the followers feel on the blessed birth of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?"</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 11, Pg. No. 105)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The Wasila of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is the closest way of gaining one's objectives and the closeness of Allah Ta'ala.<span style=""> </span>Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"This was the effect of the correct beliefs of the Sahabah (companions) that they would make the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) the means of their achievements and they would consider this a means of deliverance in dangerous situations.<span style=""> </span>Now, if someone loses this Waslia, then it is their fate."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 10, Pg. No. 92)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The only standard of honor and respect is the relation with the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) and His love.<span style=""> </span>Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says about this:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"Among Muslims, only those people are considered of a high rank who have absolute love of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)"</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 10, Pg. No. 134)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The people who spread discord among the Ummah are those with wrong beliefs.<span style=""> </span>Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says about them:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"May Allah save us from such people who come in the garb of virtuous people and spread deceit and destroy this world and the religion of the people."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 5, Pg. No. 237)\</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Hadhrat Shaykh Ul Islam says about avoiding the books, etc. of those with wrong beliefs:</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">"We have done our accorded duty.<span style=""> </span>Even after this, if Muslims consider "Al Kalam" (book by Shibli Nomani) a book, then it is their will."</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">(Maqasid Ul Islam, Vol. 3, Pg. No. 104)</p>