Spirit of Islam · AFTER MAULANA

AFTER MAULANA

Spirit of Islam, Mar-Apr 2024, p. 17

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

According to Maulana, news was not just what was printed in the newspapers, but the real news was the one, from which the sustenance of God-realization is obtained. want to hear something from Maulana. But my consciousness said that Maulana, following the Last of the Prophets, clearly told everything about God openly, and showed good will to the last extent. Now Maulana has separated from us under God’s natural law and has left for the journey of the Hereafter. It is our responsibility to carry forward the true understanding of Islam that we have found through Maulana. Suddenly I remembered a supplication at the time of breaking the fast, which means that the thirst is gone and the veins are watered, and if God wills, rewards are bestowed. I changed the words and started reciting this prayer like this: Maulana’s soul has departed, the body was handed over to the grave and it is hoped that God, by His grace, will give Maulana a place in Jannat al-Firdous. And I also thought that when Maulana’s soul was departing, he himself would have been repeating the same words that my soul has departed and my body has been buried, I hope that my Lord will give a better decision in my favour. As if Maulana’s simple life was the “fasting” of the path of God-realization, death became the iftar of meeting God for him. For the sake of searching for the truth and finding the facts, Maulana's bones weakened and the blood of his veins dried up. The reality is that if true religion disappears and formal ritualistic worship remains, there is a time to rediscover the spirit of worship. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has done the same thing. God is the source of all hope. The greatest blessing for a true believer is that his whole life is spent in anticipation, but it ends in hope. Because he is going to a ‘known place’, that is, to the Hereafter and the eternal Paradise created by God. Whether it is God-realization or the awareness of the Hereafter, there is no age bar to enter into serious thought about them. However, Satan causes negligence. He makes people believe that these are not the subjects of youth, these are the subject of old people. This is the greatest ignorance and rebellion of man. The fact is that the remembrance of death and the preparation for it are becoming less and less common these days. If a preacher or a teacher reminds us of realization of God or concern for the Hereafter, then we should appreciate it. Newspapers or newsmagazines inform

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