people were amazed to see my truthfulness. When asked about the reason for telling the truth even in this situation, I replied, ‘Before I departed, my mother had made me promise to tell the truth in every circumstance, and never to speak a lie. I cannot break the promise I have made to my mother.’ Listening to this, the chief of robbers burst into tears and said, ‘Alas! You have sincerely fulfilled the promise you made to your mother but I have been going against the promises for years I have made to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ.’

Impressed by the sincerity and piety of this young traveller of the path of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the chief of robbers repented of his sins. His fellow thieves also repented and said, ‘O chief! You were our leader when we were robbers, now you will also lead us to the path of righteousness.’ (Bahjat-ul-Asraar, pp. 167)

نگاہِ ولی میں وہ تاثیر دیکھی                   بدلتی ہزاروں کی تقدیر دیکھی

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب       صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Our respected Ghaus-e-A’zam رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would never tell a lie and nor would he ever commit the sin of breaking a promise. Specially those people should seek the admonitory lesson from this parable who claim to be the devotees and followers of Ghaus-e-A’zam but they speak lies and do not refrain from breaking promises and then these germs transfer into their children and sometimes even those people who have a Madani mind-set yet Satan makes them fall into the epidemics of lying and breaking of promises. For example, when sometimes they are persuaded for any Madani activity, some unwise people say ‘اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ’ without making any good intention whereas in their hearts, they have no such intention to perform that Madani activity. Remember! Warnings of dire consequences have been mentioned at many places in the blessed Ahadees. Let’s listen to 2 blessed sayings of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم containing lessons of warnings:

1.         Hold on to the truth, because truth leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Jannah; a man continues speaking the truth and