provide the expenses of the 92-day Madani Qafilah but I will also provide for your family for these 92 days.’ In this way, the brother travelled with a Madani Qafilah for 92 days.

یا خُدا! نکلوں میں مدنی قافلوں کے ساتھ کاش!

سُنّتوں کی تَربِیَت کے واسطے پھر جلد تَر!

خُوب خِدمت سُنّتوں کی ہم سَدا کرتے رہیں

مدنی ماحول اے خُدا ہم سے نہ چُھوٹے عُمر بھر

Dear Islamic brothers! No doubt, in a few days the great month of mercies and blessings is about to arrive, which is a great gift of forgiveness for sinful people like us, after 11 months and remains with us only for 29 or 30 days. Therefore, we should wake up to the fact and have more respect and reverence for this blessed month. Furthermore, we should offer more Salah, observe fasts, recite the Holy Quran, do Zikr and Azkaar, recite Salat-‘Alan-Nabi, offer Taraweeh, recite Hamd and Na’at and Manqabat. We should also stay awake during the night for worship, offer Taraweeh and Salat-ul-Tasbih, have regret over our sins and make repentance day and night in order to attain the blessings of the mercy that is showered abundantly in the sacred month of Ramadan. Undoubtedly, fortunate are the Muslims who give importance and respect to this sacred guest of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. Let me tell you a parable of a non-Muslim about the blessings of respecting Ramadan. He was blessed with the wealth of faith (Iman) by virtue of respecting Ramadan. Listen to it and refresh your faith:

Respect of Ramadan becomes a source of forgiveness

In his book, ‘Faizan-e-Ramadan’ [Blessings of Ramadan], on page 909, Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, the founder of Dawat-e-Islami, ‘Allamah Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri Razavi Ziyaee       دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه has narrated: There was a non-Muslim who lived in Bukhara. Once he was walking through a market of Muslims along with his son. His son began to eat something in public. Seeing his son eating, he scolded him saying,