sugar) in a small bowl and chutney in a cup would be brought to him which he would eat. One day, I asked him: Your highness! What is the match between Feerni and chutney? He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied: To start eating with salt and end eating with salt are a Sunnah. Hence chutney is brought to me. (Faizan-e-A’la Hadrat, pp. 113)

اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ! The embodiment of Sunnah A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would use salty chutney before and after sweet Feerni to act upon the Sunnah of using salt in the beginning and end of eating food. Eating salt (or salty thing) in the beginning and end of food removes 70 diseases, اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ.

(Faizan-e-Sunnat, pp. 658)

Dear Islamic sisters! Despite eating so little food A’la Hadrat never missed a Sawm. His nephew and caliph Maulana Hasanayn Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: About the Qada of Sawm I have never heard from any of his elders, and nor from anyone who is of his age, and nor have we [younger] have seen him doing Qada of the Sawm of this blessed month.

Sometimes he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه fell ill in the blessed month of Ramadan, but he did not miss a Sawm. If someone insistently asked him humbly that weakness, in such a state, will further increase due to Sawm so he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied: Should I not undergo treatment if I am a patient? People would surprisingly say: Is Sawm a treatment? He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied: It is an effective treatment. It is the treatment mentioned by my Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. He           صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘صُوْمُوا تَصِحُّوا’ i.e. observe Sawm, you will become healthy. (Mu’jam-ul-Awsat, vol. 6, pp. 146, Hadees 8312)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

A’la Hadrat was one of the perfect pious saints who were very careful about the grandeur of Divine obligations. When the month of Ramadan of 1339 H began in May, June 1921 and due to being constantly ill and being very weak A’la Hadrat did not find the energy to observe Sawm of summer, he issued this Fatwa for himself: It is cold on the mountain, observing Sawm is possible