٭   After the Bayan, I will approach other people by making Salam, shaking hands, and for making individual efforts upon them.

Consequence of Heedlessness

Dear Islamic brothers! Muhammad bin Ghassan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه, Qazi of Kufa, has said: On the day of Eid-ul-Azha, I went to my mother where I saw an old woman, wearing old, torn and worn-out clothes. I liked her style of conversation. I asked my mother about the woman. She said: “She is your aunt ‘Aaniya, the mother of the minister of Haroon Rasheed, Jaffar bin Yahya Barmaki”. I said Salam to her and in return she replied to my Salam. I inquired after her and asked about her present condition. She replied: O son, I spent my life heedlessly and remained busy wasting time. The time has gone far away from me. I said: Describe any event of your glorious time. She started saying: Why not. I am relating a short event by which you may judge my glory and dignity. Three years ago, on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, I had four hundred Scarves. As a part of custom, my son sent me the heads of 1400 billy goats and 300 oxen. In addition, there were also jewellery, dresses, etc. Despite this, I thought that my son was disobedient and today my state is such that I have come to you to get the skins of two billy goats so that I can prepare my dress from them. Qazi Sahib said: After hearing her story of downfall I grew very sad and started weeping. That time whatever Dinars I had, I gave her as a gift.

(Bahr-u-Dumu’, pp. 105)

نہیں درکار وہ خوشیاں، جو غفلت کا بنیں ساماں

عطا کر اپنی اُلفت اپنے پیارے کا تُو غم مولیٰ

(وسائلِ بخشش مُرمّم،ص99)

صَلُّوۡ اعَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد