though a venomous snake had bitten him. He would cry like a grief-stricken person and say out aloud, ‘O my Lord! O my Lord!’ Then he would address this world and say, ‘Have you come to deceive me? Have you adorned yourself for me? Go away! Try to deceive another, for I have already given you three divorces. Your lifespan is short, your gathering is lowly, and bearing your hardships is very easy. Alas! The journey is long and the provisions are few, and the path is full of terrors.’ (Hilya-tul-Awliya, vol. 1, p. 85)

Dear Islamic brothers! No doubt, if we were to look at the biographies of our pious predecessors, then we will see that their blessed lives were full of greed for good deeds. Some spent their nights in the recitation of the Quran, while others spent it in offering voluntary Salah, some would spend their nights in Sajdah, while others would spend their nights pleading in the court of Allah Almighty, one would recite an entire Quran each night, while a portion of another’s life would be spent in reciting the Quran twice; once in the night and once in the day. There were also such pious personalities who did not miss a single Salah with congregation in 60 years! May Allah Almighty also make us desirous of good deeds for the sake of these pious personalities and may He grant us the greed for performing voluntary worship alongside fulfilling our Faraaid and Wajibat.

اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن صلَّی اللہ علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم 

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Adopt good company

It is said that a melon takes its colour from other melons; if a sesame seed is kept in a rose flower, it also becomes rosy by staying in its company. Similarly, a common man who stays in the company of the devotees of the Prophet, in the religious movement of Dawat-e-Islami, becomes a unique pearl, with the grace of Allah Almighty and the