Share this link via
The Wise Words of Shaykh Abd al Qadir al Jilani
The man had not even finished speaking when another person arrived and gave the Shaykh a purse as a gift. Inside were thirty gold coins. The shaykh immediately handed this to the poor man and proclaimed, “Give these gold coins to the boatman, and tell him that from now he must never refuse to take a poor person across the river.”[1]
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Third advice: consider life a treasure!
On Sunday morning, 10th Shawwāl 545 AH, Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه delivered a speech in his madrasah.
He began with this Hadith of the beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم :
مَنْ فُتِحَ لَہٗ بَابٌ مِّنْ خَیْرٍ فَلْیَنْتَہِزْہُ فَاِنَّہٗ لَا یَدْرِیْ مَتیٰ یُغْلَقُ عَلَیْہِ
Whoever has a door of goodness opened for him should hasten and rush to enter it, for he does not know when it may be closed upon him.[2]
After this, the Shaykh announced:
O man! Rush towards goodness while the door of life is still open. Think of every breath as a treasure, for soon this door will be shut. While you still have strength and ability, consider righteous deeds as blessings. Cling to the door of repentance for as long as it stays open. Hold to the door of supplication; value it and pray! Benefit from the door that leads to spending time with the pious!
BOOK TOPIC
- The Wise Words of Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
- The excellence of reciting ṣalāt upon the beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- Speech intentions
- First advice: three things are obligatory upon every Muslim
- A brief summary of Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir’s life
- His teaching and speeches
- Second advice: the action that makes one beloved to Allah
- Bringing joy to the distressed
- Third advice: consider life a treasure!
- Fourth advice: regarding four things that harm Islam
- Encouragement for Pious Deed 33
- Manners of visiting the resting places of the noble saints
- Announcement
- The six ṣalawāt and two duꜤāˈs recited in the Sunna-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami
- 1. The ṣalāt for the night preceding Friday
- 4. The reward of 600,000 ṣalāt
- 3. Seventy portals of mercy
- 2. All sins forgiven
- 5. Nearness to the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- 6. The ṣalāt of intercession
- 1. Good deeds for 1000 days
- 2. An easy way to spend every night in worship
- Weekly gathering schedule for 9th October 2025
- More manners of visiting the resting places of the noble saints
- Supplication to be included among the righteous
- Method of collective accountability (72 Pious Deeds)
- Method of collective accountability (72 pious deeds) daily 56 pious deeds
- Record of qufl-e-Madinah
- Ten weekly pious deeds
- Three monthly pious deeds
- One yearly pious deed
- Two lifetime pious deeds
- The Amir of Ahl al-Sunna’s dua
