Questions & Answers

“How is wisdom from God different from philosophical wisdom?”

“There are multiple points of view in religious thoughts. Everyone agrees upon tazkiyah nafs, but after that some people emphasize on dawah work, some on jihad, some on charity, some on Sufism, and some on iqamat-e-din.”

“If emotions are taken out of deen, and deen is according to rationality, how can you inspire people to do religious duties?”

“How can we develop inner peace so that it reflects in external actions? Because only when we have inner peace can there be communal harmony.”

“We worship God, but how can one love God?”

“What role does intuition play in developing love of God? What is your comment on this?”

“What can derail a person from love of God? What is your opinion?”

“Maulana writes in Quranic Wisdom that Quranic spirituality is spirituality of the positive kind. It means living in the world and trying to derive spiritual food from material things as a matter...”

“What is spirituality and what is religion? What is the difference between the two? Please clarify.”

“Many a times we do repentance and we mean it as well. But after a while we again end up either repeating the mistake or make new ones. This gives rise to guilty feeling to such a level that we fall in frustration.”

“Can I understand that the same is for Tawbah Nasuh (sincere repentance) is to sit back, take stock and replan after every action?”

“To clean one's thoughts, a very big heart is needed, especially for a dai. My question is: How can we all make our hearts big?”

“I need to know how I can develop ma'rifat (wisdom).”

“In Islam, thinking is also worship. What a thrilling quote! But it sometimes is difficult to discover which type of thinking is graded as prayer. Most of the time our thinking leads towards negativity. Please guide us on right thinking.”

“Are there any stages for a person for the discovery of God? How can we discover God in our daily life?”

“Is joining some camp necessary to initiate spirituality in one's life, or simply pondering upon nature is good enough to get started?”

“Thank you for giving such a clear lecture on the importance of patience and advanced training for paradise. Yesterday you said patience with reflection is the best thing. Can you please elaborate on patience with reflection?”

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

“Maulana, your concern has always been God. You have never deviated from it, but we are afraid that we might deviate. Maulana, how can we save ourselves from deviation?”

“You gave a thrilling concept today that God is self-discovery and hamd is the response. What is the meaning and importance of response without God discovery? Does this make any sense? Please guide us.”

“Maulana, you always emphasize on doing dua whenever one finds oneself in a difficult situation. On the other hand, you also emphasize on developing objective thinking. So my question is: how simply doing dua can develop objective thinking to handle a crisis situation? If one relies only on dua, then how can one solve a crisis?”

“What is Sabr-e-Jameel (beautiful patience)? Please explain it.”

“We have been taught from childhood to fear God. How can we overcome this?”

“How can we save our self from destruction?”