Upon seeing this state, his friends said: ‘O Abu Qaasim رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه! What is this? Why are your feet swollen?’ He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: ’اَللہُ اَکْبَر! This is in fact a blessing.’ Sayyiduna Abu Muhammad Hareeri رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: ‘O Abu Qaasim رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه, is there any harm if you lie down?’ He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: ‘There is still [some] time to perform righteous deeds. Thereafter, there will be no such opportunity.’ Then he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said ‘اَللہُ اَکْبَر’ and he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه passed away.

It is also reported that when it was said to him that: ‘Huzoor! Be a bit lenient on yourself.’ Upon this, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied, ‘Now my record of deeds is being closed. Who will be in need of good deeds more than me at this time?’

(‘Uyoon-ul-Hikayat - Arabic, pp. 250)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب    صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic sisters! Remember! A wise person neither wastes her own time, nor the time of others. Rather, she values her own time, minds her own business, spends her time in good activities and persuades other Islamic sisters to do the same. She reforms those who have the mind-set of wasting time, and also carries out self-accountability by performing Fikr-e-Madinah if she utters an unnecessary statement. This was the very Madani mind-set of our pious predecessors. For persuasion, let us listen to two faith-refreshing parables and learn some admonitory Madani pearls from it.

1. Reformation of the one who wasted time

It is stated on page No. 829 of the 2^nd volume of the book ‘Ihya-ul-‘Uloom’, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami: Sayyiduna Abu ‘Ali Fudayl Bin ‘Iyaad (فُضَیل بن عِیاض رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه) was sitting alone in Masjid-ul-Haraam when one of his friends came to him. Sayyiduna Abu ‘Ali Fudayl Bin ‘Iyaad رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه asked him the reason he had come for. He replied, ‘O Abu ‘Ali! I have come to amuse you.’ Sayyiduna Abu Ali Fudayl Bin ‘Iyaad رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said, ‘By Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! This is something of a