Question: [This is a snipped and relevant part of a compound question:] Speech makers who sermonize in a Masjid or outside of it are given offerings in cash or kind by the listeners; some of them merely recite poems and odes [naat] - Is it permissible to give such offerings in a mosque or out of the mosque? - Is such an income permissible for the speaker? - Are they included in the description ...
Read MoreQuestion: What is the ruling concerning the issue that: Samāá or recitation/singing is permitted for an eligible [ahl] person and impermissible for an ineligible [nā ahl] person. Just as Shaykh Sáadī raĥimahullāh has said: na goyem samāá ay birādar key chīst magar mustamiý rā ba-dānam key kīst I cannot say anything, O brother, about the status of samāá Until I see the status of the person who listens to it. So, why should the samāá ...
Read MoreIn this original manuscript of Dawlah, on page 18 of the PDF, Alahazrat has calculated the chronogram and thus decided the name of the book:
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Abjad is a numeral system in which each letter of the alphabet is assigned a value. It is an ancient practice to compose chronograms for events using the abjad system – like dates of birth, or death-dates, names given at birth; authors would name their books such that, the letters when added using the abjad system, tallied with the year in which it was written. In other words, a chronogram ...
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Once a poor young man invited Alahazrat for breakfast. Alahazrat agreed to go and went with one of his companions to the young man’s home. It was in the poorer neighbourhoods of the city. The young man was half-expecting that he may not come and upon seeing the great man walking towards his door, he was exhilarated and ran inside saying: “The Mawlānā is here!” Meanwhile, Alahazrat’s companion had stopped to ...
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Alahazrat was a skilled calligrapher who also wrote a neat hand, in spite of his swift writing. He was proficient in the Nastáliq and Naskh writing styles, as he has mentioned himself, and his expertise can be gauged from the samples below: A calligraphed autobiographical quatrain penned by himself Şalawāt he composed extempore with the names of shaykhs in a chain of transmission in taşawwuf. Qaşidatān Rāyiýatān: two odes in ...
Read MoreQuestion:1 What is the ruling concerning a person who has read some ordinary books of Urdu and Persian, used in preliminary classes, and who has not attended any Islamic school nor obtained certificates from scholars: yet he claims that he is a mufti and translates verses of the Qur’ān and ĥadīth and makes it known to the public that he is a scholar (maulvi). a) Is it allowed to accept the ruling ...
Read MoreQuestion:1 Please describe, where in the books of fiqh is it written, that it is farđ áyn2 to recite the Qur’ān with (minimum) tajwīd such that every letter is pronounced distinctly. If it is indeed true, then in which book is it present and in which place in that book. If you can recall a hadith at the moment in this regard, please include it in your answer. — Answer: It is clearly written ...
Read MoreQuestion:1 Zayd says the following: “It is necessary to learn the makharij2 and it is obligatory3 to pronounce [the Qur’ān in recitation] properly. However, if one cannot pronounce properly in spite of trying very hard [to learn], they will then have a valid excuse. If a person does not know about the makhraj absolutely or that he knows about them, but he does not pronounce accordingly, then, his namaz/salat is invalid. If most ...
Read MoreQuestion: 1 A person is a sayyid, but his deeds and character are bad and shameful. Is it permissible to respect him for his lineage and only dislike his deeds? Compared to this sayyid, if there are people from other families like Shaykhs, Mughals, Pathans etc. who are pious – can they be considered higher than this sayyid? In such a situation, does the sharīáh give precedence to actions or mere ...
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