Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

How to Develop Maulana's Passionate Madness

“Moulana, my question is not related to today's class. Recently, when we travelled to Rajouri for the dawah meet, we received a book containing your speech at Srinagar Tagore Hall, in which you repeatedly said, 'I am a madman.' How can I develop that madness like you?”Asked by Mahboob Bhai, Mumbai

He answers at 46:16 in The Meaning of Ummat-i-Wasat · 2 min 21 sec

His answer, in his own words
46:16
maulana, agla sawal lete hain. yeh mahboob bhai ne mumbai se bheja hai, unhone likha hai: "maulana, my question is not related to today's class. recently, when we travel to rajouri for the dawah meet, the rajouri team gifted all of us some books. one of them was a book which is basically our speech given at srinagar tagore hall. you repeatedly said in that speech: 'main toh ek deewana aadmi hoon.' my request is, maulana, that how I could develop that deewangi like you? what is your advice?" bhai, dua kijiye aur Quran poori rasool Allah ki seerat ko padhiye, sahaba ke halaat ko padhiye.
47:09
main ne toh yahi kiya tha, main ne toh yahi kiya tha ke dua ki hai, Quran ko padha, hadith ko padha, seerat ko padha, sahaba ke halaat ko padha, isi ka outcome tha deewangi. aap bhi yahi kijiye. doctor naghma siddiqui ne dilli se likha hai: "i understood our role as the middle nation as the mission of all muslims, for which god has given all support in terms of infrastructure virtually free.
47:52
may god help us to perform this task." mr. asad parvez ne boston, usa se likha hai: "i gave a copy of the quran to my global strategy professor. he said he was waiting for a long time to find out about islam, but never had the opportunity. people are waiting, but we never avail the opportunity. this is the experience that i gain from this interaction." ibn abdul rehman sahib ne srinagar se likha hai: "no one has a better speech than that of those who engage in dawah activities.
48:37
commenting such people, the quran says: 'who speaks better than one who calls to allah, does good work and says: 'i am surely one of the muslims.'" maulana, agla sawal lete hain.
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