called him Haji Mantahan Khan. He was a landlord and older than the Imam رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه. When a person is a landlord, wealthy, and also quite old, some people tend to develop a sense of pride, formality, and superiority in their nature. In social matters, people often try to show off their prestige in front of their neighbours.

However, the Imam’s elderly landlord neighbour Haji Muhammad Shah had a unique style. Sayyid QanāꜤat ꜤAliرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  states: One day, I saw that Haji Muhammad Shah, despite being older than Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه was sweeping at the threshold of the Imam. Sayyid QanāꜤat Aliرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  could not bear this; he quickly stepped forward and tried to take the broom from his hand, but Haji Muhammad Shah refused and said: "Son! It is my pride to be sweeping at the threshold of my spiritual guide."

Sayyid QanāꜤat Aliرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  was surprised, as he did not yet know that Haji Muhammad Shah was also a disciple of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan. Noticing his astonishment, the Haji said: "I am older than A’lā Hazrat; I have seen his childhood, his youth, and now his old age. I have found him to be unparalleled in every age, which is why I pledged allegiance to him. In old age, anyone can appear as a venerable elder, but A’lā Hazrat was very famous and unparalleled since childhood."^[1]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Commemorating the 25^th of Ṣafar

Dear Islamic brothers! The reviver of Islam, the Imam of Ahl al-Sunnah, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه is a great blessing for the Islamic world. At a time when conspiracies were orchestrated against Islam, heretical ideologies were gaining momentum, innovations were becoming common, and unholy attempts were being made to distort the meanings of Quranic verses, and Islamic teachings were being misinterpreted, Allah Almighty blessed the Muslim world with the noble presence of Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه.