Ameer-ul-Mu`mineen, Sayyiduna Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ اللهُ عَـنْهُ states: The person who makes me aware of my shortcomings is beloved to me.

(At-Tabqat Li-Ibn-e-Sa’d, Raqm, 56; ‘Adi Bin Ka’b, vol. 3, pp. 222)

A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه states: Those who are just will be grateful to the one who informs them of the correct way. (Malfuzaat-e-A’la Hadrat, pp. 220)

3.   The third thing we learn is that good character and gentleness play a very important role in rectification. Some Islamic brothers have the passion for their own rectification and of the entire world. They strive to rectify those who are stuck in sins, and they make both individual and group efforts to end societal ills and spread the Sunnah. However, due to their harsh manner, bad character, anger, coarse language, criticising mind-set and because of telling people off in public, they fail to achieve their goal and fall into loss instead. Therefore, if we sincerely desire rectification of the Ummah, then at the time of rectification, we should maintain a gentle manner, good character, forbearance, sweet words, avoid criticising and explain to people in private as much as possible. اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه, we will see excellent results this way.

By studying the book of Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ, ‘Call to righteousness’ and the booklets, ‘Sweet words’ and ‘Excellence of Forgiving & Tolerance’, we will gain a lot of good information, like, how should a preacher be who spreads the call to righteousness? How should the character of a preacher be? How passionate should we be in terms of forgiving each other, etc.

4.   The fourth thing we learn from this is that hastiness is such a bad thing that if it enters into one’s worship, it causes it to be incomplete and at times even ruins it. Alas! A very small number of Muslims offer Salah today and from those who do offer Salah, some of them ruin their Salah due to hastiness. Such people have been labelled as ‘thieves of Salah’.

Thief of Salah

The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated: ‘The worst thief is the one who steals in his Salah.’ The companions عَـلَيْهِمُ الرِّضْوَانْ humbly asked: ‘O Messenger of