Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

How to pray amidst fear and despair

“Hazrat, when there is fear and terror everywhere, despondency and darkness, how should one pray? Please tell me about this.”Asked by مس فرح احمد, کولہاپور

He answers at 48:31 in Patience and Crisis · 3 min 15 sec

His answer, in his own words
48:31
jo is training mein kamyab hoga, wahi jannat mein basaya jayega. jazak allah Maulana." Maulana agla sawal lete hain. yeh bheja hai Kolhapur se Miss Farah Ahmed ne. unhon ne likha hai: "Hazrat har taraf dar aur khauf ho, mayoosi aur andhera ho to dua kis tarah kari jaye? is ke baray mein bataein." bhai to woh to dua ki training ho jayegi. jab dua ke khilaf mahol ho to us waqt dua karna yeh to bohat hi bari saadat hai. saadat
49:24
yani woh waqt hai ke jab ke Allah Rabb-ul-Alameen yeh kahe ke mere bande ne mujh ko itne achhe mauqe par yaad kiya, main bhi is ki hi hajat poori karta hoon. woh to bohat hi shandar lamha hota hai. Allah ki rehmat ko invoke karne ka, invoke i n v o k e, woh bohat achha lamha hota hai Allah ki rehmat ko invoke karne ka. aur woh isi waqt to Allah ki rehmat sab se josh mein aati hai.
50:12
Muhammad Ammar sahib ne Delhi se comment bheja hai: "Maulana what I understood today is that crisis is a positive thing if endured with wisdom. through crisis we can practice patience and this can stand eligible for God's paradise. it is an advance training to attain paradise." mashallah. Tanveer Ahmed sahib ne Kolkata se likha hai: "Maulana sahib main ne Al-Risala mein parha tha ke sabr ka matlab hota hai ruk jana ya rukna. main ne ghor kiya to meri samajh mein yeh baat aayi ke sabr karne par qudrati taur par aisa hota hai ke insan ka zehan ek vistrit shetra mein sochna shuru kar deta hai.
51:03
sabr se vyapak shetra mein sochne ki kriya aram ho jati hai. yeh Allah ka banaya nizam hai aur sabr nahi karne ki sthiti mein dimagh sochne ka karya zaroor karta hai lekin bohat zyada seemit shetra mein is sthiti mein woh sirf radd-e-amal aur nakaratmak vishayon par hi soch pata hai. jab insan sabr ke amal se oonche star par soch samajh ki qabliyat apne andar paida kar leta hai tab woh ek bashaoor insan ban jata hai." sahi kaha aap ne. allah ta'ala aap ko jaza-e-khair de. maulana agla sawal ah doctor safeena tabassum ne saharanpur se bheja hai. unhon ne aap se poocha hai: "Maulana sahib I want to know if there is any example of dissent in early history of Islam." mani to milega lekin main samajhta hoon ke yeh jo term hai, term yeh term to west ki den hai.
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