It is Allah's grace that the Chief of the American forces has confessed that they are not winning the war in Afghanistan. Allah-o-Akbar! What is the comparison between American might and the unarmed Mujahideens! But Allah is All-Powerful over everything. The exemplary and bad end of "President Bush's" eight years' reign is at hand. Only one month and eleven days are left. Approx 375 individuals are observing I'tikaf in the "Jami' Masid Usman-o-Ali" Bahawalpur. The last decade of Ramazan is going on. It is the 22nd night of Ramazan. We should increase worshipping Allah in the last decade of Ramazan. But the common conspiracies of the "Self" and the "Satan" are going on and hence the Muslims are leading more to the bazaars. The happiness of the Eid is that the Muslims may get the glad tidings of absolution. But we have made eating, drinking and visiting real happiness whereas these jobs can be done every day and every night all the year round. These are the points I intend to convey today. May Allah grant me with the power to do so!

May Allah raise the degree of status of Hazrat Abul-Fazal Muhammad bin Hasan Alkhatli ! He was a great scholar of Tafseer and Tradition and a great saint. He used to say.

"This world is for one day and we are fasting on this day."

It means that the life in this world is short and we are like a fast observer that we do not indulge in it much but are bound. He used to say: When Allah intends to bless someone with the crown of sanctity and government, He grants him with the power to beg pardon of Allah then He sends him to serve any of His friend so that that service may become the cause of his nobility."

It means there are two ways of becoming Allah's saint: Begging pardon and company and service of Allah's saints.

Allah's dear Prophet Hazrat Muhammad would always make Sahaaba (RA) recall the Hereafter. It is essential for the success of a man to remember the Hereafter, grave, Paradise, hell and accountability otherwise even the religious people become neglectful. Hazrat Abu Harairah (RA) says that once they were with the Holy Prophet . They heard the voice of something falling. The Holy Prophet said, "Do you know, what sort of voice it is?" We said, "Allah and His Messenger know better." He said, "This is the stone that was thrown suspending into hell seventy years ago. Today, that has reached the bottom of hell and it was that voice." (Al-Muslim)

The people who embraced Islam at the hands of Hazrat Nuh (AH) were very few, only a handful. The Holy Quran itself says:

"Those who believed with him were very few."

Some commentators say that they were approx eighty ladies and gents. Allah was pleased with those handful. They boarded a boat and escaped punishment and their progeny continued till the Doomsday whereas Allah ruined the majority. O Allah, we love those handful people who believed in Hazrat Nuh (AS) and are acquitted of the majority who falsified your Prophet and were entitled to Your Torment.

May Allah protect us all against rudeness and disrespectfulness! The greatest respect is for Allah. Satan makes man make great mistakes in this regard. We do not talk of the Pagans and the Hypocrites who could not recognize their Creator and Sustainer. The Muslims themselves are growing weak in this regard. The heart is injured after reading some writings and letters and listening to some points that there is disrespectfulness and rudeness even of Allah because it is observed that while cutting jokes and telling tit bits, people use the words , and . They use the words "" while telling a lie. Do you know how great the word "" is? Allah has started the Surah "Al-Faatiha" with it. The Holy Quran also starts with it. Sometimes I consult the book on astronomy and find myself inferior to an ant. How many stars and planets has Allah created? No one knows with certainly. Whatever man has seen with the help of his limited knowledge also proves that the stars are billions in number. There are so big gorges and gaps in the universe that if the sun, the moon and the earth all are packed inside anyone of them, they will be lost there as a ball is lost in a big gutter. Allah-o-Akbar! Allah has created all these things. You can yourselves estimate His greatness.