Many people do not know how to appreciate appreciation.  If someone were to thank us or express their appreciation, often times we do not know how to take that properly.  Sometimes that gets to our heads and we get caught up in vanity which is an extremely deadly disease of the heart.  The other extreme is we feel distasteful towards those who praise us or appreciate us.
Our mashaaikh teach us to adopt a moderate path.  In one hadith, the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) has instructed us to throw dirt …

Source: An-Noor
Many a time, people who decide to tread the path of sulook and tasawwuf by connecting themselves to a shaikh have the notion that they will magically reach the status of wilayah (friendship and closeness to Allah) merely through their connection and link with their shaikh. This is an absolutely erroneous and misleading notion because the duty of the shaikh is simply to show and be a guide to the path, not to carry the mureed on his back. The mureed must traverse the path to Allah Ta`ala himself …

Source: The Cure for Depression – An-Noor

By: Hazrat Mawlana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Sahib (DB)

Tafweez – The Cure for Depression
Ulama-e-Kiraam, dear brothers and respected sisters… Depression, it seems, has become synonymous with living in a society overrun with innumerable problems.  It is an ailment which has unfortunately reached epidemic proportions.  In the search for a solution, we sink deeper and deeper into the abyss of depression.  Hardly a day passes, without some person complaining about his failures or of the acute depression that he is suffering, due to various factors.What …

Hazrat Hakeem ul Ummah Mujaddid ul Millah, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (RA) has said, “The only reliable method of loving Allah and loving the Messenger is that which is acquired through the Sunnah.” If this love is acquired in a method contrary to the Sunnah, either through drums or music etc, then this love and longing is not reliable. Allah has told His Beloved Messenger to proclaim the following,
“قل ان كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني
‘If you claim to love Allah, then follow (obey) me,”
“يحببكم الله”
“Then Allah will love you.”
Hazrat Mawlana Fadhl …

The audio of bay’ah with Shaykh-ul-Hadith Hadhrat Maulana Yusuf Motala Sahib (Db) is presented below. Please click on “play” to listen. The date and place of this bay’ah is unknown.
Audio: Sheikhul Hadeeth Hadhrat Moulana Yusuf Motala saheb daamat barakaatuhum

Chain: Source: Khanqah

Hazrat Maulana Jamiat Ali, the father of Hazrat Nazim Saheb, Maulana Abdul Lateef, was a teacher at Bhawalpur. Once he was checking something, thus looking into a kitab for about an hour. A wood-carver was sitting near him. After about an hour and a half, the wood carver said:
“Moulvy-ji, you have been staring at this book for all this time. What have you found? Look at me. In all this time I have already cut so many pieces of wood.”
Maulana burst out laughing:
“We, each of one of us, have our …

1. Wake up in the last third of the night to beg forgiveness from Allah.
2. At least once in a while, seclude yourself from people in order to contemplate.
3. Stay in the company of the righteous.
4. Remember Allah often
5. Offer 2 units pf prayer with sincerity and devotion.
6. Recite the Quran with understanding and reflection.
7. Fast on a hot, dry day.
8. Give charity secretly.
9. Provide relief and aid to the afflicted Muslim
10. Be as abstemious and abstinent as possible in this fleeting world.