O the devotees of Awliya! Generally, a person passes through three stages in his life: (1) Childhood (2) Youth and (3) old age.

In childhood, a person is inclined towards playing and physical activities. In the old age, body parts become weak. One faces numerous diseases. One gets less inclined towards sins and gets more inclined towards performing worship; whereas, youth is that important phase of a person’s life where carnal desires dominate a person’s mind. The reason because the body organs are healthy during this phase of life, that’s why our youth forgets the true purpose of their life and waste the precious moments of their life in immodest activities rather than spending them in the activities that would bring about the pleasure of Allah Almighty. Therefore, in order to save themselves from the destructiveness of immodesty, our youth should especially follow the footsteps of the righteous predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی as how beautifully they spent the precious moments of their youth. They observed extreme modesty even at the peak of their youth. In return for this, they became deserving of rewards and favours from the court of Allah Almighty. Let us listen to a parable of a similar kind of modest young man and try to get the Madani pearls gathered from this parable.

Undoubtedly, I have been blessed with 2 Jannahs

During the blessed era of Ameer-ul-Mu`mineen Sayyiduna ‘Umar Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ, there was a very pious young man who would worship abundantly. Sayyiduna ‘Umar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ would also be stunned upon his [acts of] worship. After offering Salat-ul-‘Isha in Masjid, that young man would go to serve his old father. On the way, a beautiful woman used to call him towards her but the young man would pass through without paying any attention to her with his gaze lowered.

After all, one day, falling prey to the whispers of Shaytan and invitation of that woman, that young man went towards her with the evil intention. As soon as he reached the doorstep, he recalled the following blessed saying of Allah Almighty: