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)

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.

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 pay the debts of all the indebted Muslims and protect us all against debt! Debt is a very tough trial. The Holy Prophet has described it joining it with Kufr. Hazrat Abu Saeed Khudri reports that he heard the Holy Prophet praying thus:

"O Allah, I seek refuge with You from Kufr and debt."

A man said, "O Prophet of Allah, you call debt equal to Kufr." He said, "Yes" (Nisai, Haakim, At-Targheeb)
According to another report, he called, "debt" the sign of degradation.

There has been a holy saint named Haatim Asim. Today, I am to narrate one of his sayings. It is said about Hazrat Haatim Asim that he is the "Hakeem Luqman" of this Ummah.

He was the "Follower of the Follower" and a great scholar, saint and Imaam. He is one of the elderly saints of Balkh. Hazrat Junaid Baghdadi says about him i.e. the Siddique of our times was Haatim Asim. Hazrat Haatim had often been visitng Hazrat Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal. He was a Mujahid and he took part in many expeditions and battles.

This is a brief introduction of Hazrat Haatim Asim. He says: Satan says to me daily, "What will you eat, what will you put on and where will you live?" I say to him: "I shall eat death, put on coffin and live in the grave."

May Allah protect us all against hardness of the heart! The heart is hardened due to sinning, over-speaking and over-eating. The Holy Quran has pronounced ruination for the people whose hearts are hardened. It is 29th of Shabaan today. It is very much possible that the month of Ramazan may start from tomorrow. Let us now pray much and work hard to correct our hearts

There is success for the Muslims in invoking to Allah's good names and obeying Him. The cure for the Evil-Eye is also one of them. If Allah's name is invoked whole-heartedly and the job told by Him is performed heart and soul, every worry will be removed by the grace of Allah. The article on the cure of Evil-Eye was incomplete for several weeks. It will be completed by Allah's will, today. Lo, study a few cures for the Evil-Eye.

Allah has drowned another Pharaoh. ........ Apparently, "Parvez Musharrif" is alive. But what type of life? Every moment a humiliation, every moment a torment. All the companions have deserted him. There is neither a companion nor a helper. He called to them all during the last days of his reign but no one came to help him.

May Allah grant you with release in good health or bless you with "High Martyrdom!" O my Sister Aaffia! O Muslim Sister Aaffia! O the Daughter of the Muslim Ummah Aaffia! The eyes are shedding tears, the heart is sore and tempests are blowing in the mind. The sister is in the prison of the Pagans while the brothers are free. O Aaffia Sister, you are in the American's captivity. By Allah, it is difficult to raise head out of shame. O sister, the immodest so-called Muslims arrested you. Alas! O Parvez Musharrif, you proved a Pharaoh for the Muslims. You are an immodest kidnapper who kept selling the Muslim girls of the country to the Pagans for the sake of a few dollars. Were they also Muslims who arrested sister Aafia, handed her over to the Americans and then kept threatening her mother to close her lips? Where was this progeny of the oppressors and immodest people born? O oppressors, it was better you had killed her like the daughters of Lal Masjid. But you have exceeded all the limits of oppression. The prisoner number 650 at Bagram Air Base ………….. The spiritual daughter of Hazrat Ayesha(RA) remained in painful captivity for five years. May Allah grant the new Muslim sister Mariam (Evan Radly) who searched out her pious soul with good reward otherwise the Muslims were altogether unaware of it! May Allah grant Mr. Imran Khan also with good reward because he raised voice first of All! Allah knows, this activity can become the cause of absolution. O yes, by the Lord of Ka'ba, Islam is very sensitive in this regard. Now it is very difficult to digest a few morsels of bread after hearing of a Muslim sister's disgrace at the hands of the Pagans. Now no honour seems good. O the rulers of Pakistan! Fear of Allah's torment and get the Muslim sister released from the Americans. If you do not do so, you will be disgraced from tip to toes. Allah showed Hazrat Musa and his people the exemplary end of Pharaoh and soothed those oppressed people. May Allah bless sister Aafia and the members of her family and show them the exemplary end of Parvez Musharrif and his companions!

I seek refuge with Allah from the evil of every envier when he envies and from the "Evil-Eye" of everyone who casts evil-eye. A few points were discussed in the previous column about the "Evil-Eye." Today, a few more narratives and then a look at the cure for the "Evil-Eye."