How to Develop Gentleness

20.Did you spend at least two hours carrying out the religious activities of Dawat-e-Islami in accordance with the schedule provided by your nigrān?

21.Did you wake up others for Fajr prayer?

22.Did you refrain from unnecessarily peeping into other people’s homes?

23.Did a short lecture (dars) take place in your home? In your absence, did somebody else carry this out?

24.Did you listen to or deliver at least one Madani dars in the masjid, workplace, or wherever else possible?

25.Did you dress according to the sunnah? (These clothes must be a colour permitted by the shariah and not glaringly bright or sparkling.)

26.Do you have long hair according to the sunnah?

27.Have you refrained from the sin of shaving the beard or trimming it less than a fist-length?

28.Did you repent immediately after committing a sin?

29.Did you eat according to the sunnah and recite the pre-meal and post-meal duꜤāˈs?

30.Did you give salaam to the Muslims you met at home; at work; on the bus, train, etc; and other places?

31.Did you act upon at least some sunnahs related to the miswāk, exiting and entering the home, sleeping and awakening, sitting facing qibla, etc?

32.Did you offer the four units (rakꜤāt) of sunnah for Ẓuhr prior to the farḍ?

33.Did you offer tahajjud prayer at night? If you did not sleep, did you offer ṣalāt al-layl?

34.Did you offer the voluntary (nafl) prayers of ishrāq, chāsht, and awwābīn?

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