Individual effort on driver

While passing by the place where buses, which pick Islamic brothers up from different areas for the weekly Sunnah-inspiring Ijtima’ of Dawat-e-Islami, stand and wait for the return of Islamic brothers, an Islamic brother saw that songs were being played in an empty bus and its driver was smoking marijuana in it. He met the driver with great affection. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the blessings of the meeting appeared immediately and the driver stopped playing the songs himself and put out the cigarette containing marijuana as well. The Islamic brother presented smilingly a cassette of Bayan namely, ‘First Night of Grave’ to the driver. He inserted the cassette immediately into the tape recorder. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the cassette exerted a great effect on him and he repented of his sins after being frightened and by virtue of the blessing of the ‘individual effort’ he came out of the bus and sat with that Islamic brother in the Ijtima’.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Quran is the best cure

Dear Islamic brothers! Whoever recites the Holy Quran daily in the morning and evening not only collects abundant reward, but by its blessings he also gets cured of inner (spiritual) and outer (physical) diseases. Once a person made a complaint of his sore throat to the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘Start reciting the Holy Quran.’         A man came and humbly said: I have got a chest pain. The Beloved Rasool       صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘Recite Holy Quran. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has said: ‘وَ شِفَآءٌ لِّمَا فِی الصُّدُوْرِ’ Translation from Kanz-ul-‘Irfan: ‘And cure for the hearts.’ (Durr-e-Mansur, vol. 4, pp. 366) or rather the Holy Quran is also the best cure for various illnesses. The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated: خَیْرُ الدَّوَاءِ اَلْقُرْاٰنُ i.e., ‘The best cure is the Holy Quran.’ (Sunan Ibn Majah: Hadees 3501)

Commenting on the abovementioned blessed Hadees, ‘Allamah ‘Abdur Ra`oof Manaawi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has written: i.e., the best Ta’weez (amulet) is that which is done through any Quranic Ayah. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has stated: