not only become pious ourselves, we would become those who make others pious, and then how beneficial is this action which takes a few minutes? Let us listen to a Hadith in order to understand this. Our Beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: To reflect for a moment (regarding the hereafter) is better than worshipping for 60 years. (Jami’-us-Sagheer, p. 365, Hadith 5873) سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه! سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه!

Woh tau nihayat sasta soda baych rahay hayn Jannat ka

Ham muflis kiya maul chuka’ayn, apna hath hi khali hay

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

O devotees of the Prophet! Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ has made it even easier for us to take ourselves to account and earn good deeds; he has gifted a booklet of pious deeds known as ‘72 Pious Deeds’ to his disciples, associates and devotees. This booklet can be purchased from Maktaba-tul-Madina, or you can download the application ‘Nayk A’maal’ on your mobile phone. This contains 72 questions which are based upon various pious deeds and there are 30 boxes beneath each question. You should fix a time that suits you every day, open the booklet for a few minutes, read each question and then mark the boxes given below, whether a yes or a no, accordingly. اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه, through the blessings of this, within a few days, you will observe a change in your life.

Tenth method: Dear Islamic brothers! In order to become pious and to spend most of our time performing good deeds, it is very important to leave bad company, otherwise we will never be able to spend our time in doing righteous deeds. Bad company is a very big and common reason for time being wasted. If we were to adopt only good company and avoid bad company at all costs, we would save a lot of our time and be successful in performing good deeds in that time. The one who encourages us towards good deeds or aids us in good deeds, sitting and associating with such a person is known as good company. Hence,