Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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God Oriented Life July 9, 2023

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Quran 31:27 · Luqman
“human life is a journey of realization that extends from this world to the here after. but the success of this journey depends upon the purification of one soul.”
Sahih Muslim, Hadith no. 373
“according to the quran, if all the trees on the earth were made pens and sea is ink, and seven more seas added on to it, still the words of god would not exhaust.”
Al-Hawi al-Kabir by al-Mawardi, vol. 11, p. 282
Prophets' seclusion practices and Islam rejecting full monasticism
“Rasoolullah used to go to the cave of Hira for six months”
Musannaf Abdul Razzaq, Hadith no. 11217
“? ji. to apa, aik mere ko riwayat bhi yaad aati hai, kyunke yeh itna important question hai jis ka aap ne jawab diya, kyunke log aksar extreme ke level pe chale jatay hain.”
Sahih Muslim, Hadith no. 1159
Hadith stories rejecting extreme asceticism in marriage
“Hazrat Usman ibn Maz'un's wife was wearing old, torn clothes”
Quran 3:79 · Aal-Imran
Intellectual monasticism: detachment from the world while living in it
“Fikri rahbaniyat means monasticism at the level of thought”
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 1472
“aur jahan bhi humein lage ke yahan humein shaitan ne behkaya hai, isi waqt hum la haula padhen aur isi waqt hum alert ho”
Musnad Abu Ya'la, Hadith no. 4091
“lekin meri bhi apa jab kai logon se baat hoti hai spirituality ke subject pe, to aksar mein dekhta hoon ke woh words mein hi phanse rehte hain. heart ko le ke zyada emphasize karte hain, jabke aap ne bohat achhe se wazeh kiya ke heart is nothing but an organ to pump blood.”
Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya, Hadith no. 345
“to ab bred in our heart ka agar literal meaning to bilkul samajh nahi ayega, is ka matlab yahi hai ke mind ke level pe woh ek settle down”
Quran 39:21 · Az-Zumar
“bana gour aur fikr se hamare andar gehri ya sanjeedgi paida ho hi nahi sakti." doctor aslam khan sahib ne saharanpur se likha hai: "doctor farida, you are right.”
Quran 2:129 · Al-Baqarah
“main chahunga ke aap is ke bare mein batayein ke kyun tazkiya important hai hum sab ke liye. aksar log is ko, taqreeban poori duniya hi is ko, main kahunga, ignore kar ke baithi hui hai aur ek doosri hi cheez ke peeche bhaag rahi hai.”
Musnad Al-Darmi, Hadith no. 675
Self-accountability, submission to God, and purifying the ego
“We have to do our own introspection, our own self-accounting”
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 7952
Umar's prayer: gratitude for those who point out your faults
“May God have mercy on the one who gifts me my faults”
Quran 26:89 · Ash-Shu'ara
“malech nahi rakhna, aur doosre ke liye khair khwah banna. God oriented life bana batana. to yahi yahi hai purification of heart.”
Quran 3:190 · Aal-Imran
No timing recorded for this mention — the lecture cites it, but not at a second we can trust.