Nabi Sallallahu Alayhi WaSallam has mentioned that there is no questioning in the Grave for a person who passes away on a Friday.

Answer

Usually people who are lax or not practicing properly on the Deen make comments such as: "See! He passed away on a Friday. He was not punctual….You can never judge, etc…"

Yes, no one can say what the destiny of a person will be. Judgment pertains to the Aakhirat. Only Allah Ta'ala will judge. While it is not permissible to claim that a certain person will go to Jahannam on the basis of his sins, and a certain person will go to Jannat on the basis of his piety, it is necessary to judge a person in this dunya in terms of the Shariah.

Thus, it is incumbent to say that a man who shaves his beard is a faasiq, and a man who wears his trousers below his ankles is a faasiq and invites Allah's Wrath and Punishment. Such is the command of the Shariah. It is not necessary that every person who dies on a Friday will be saved although that should be our belief in general. While we should entertain a good opinion about even a flagrant sinner who dies on a Friday, there is no guarantee that he will be saved and be entitled to the virtues of Maut on Jumuah. No one can make a judgment on this issue. We only say in general that questioning in the grave is waived from a person who dies on a Friday. But whether a specific person will be saved, we cannot say.

If a flagrant sinner has a good Maut on a Friday, we can infer that Allah Ta'ala has forgiven him and he will be spared from the questioning in the grave. But if a Muslim dies while drinking wine for example, it can be inferred that he has died an evil death and that he will not be entitled to the virtues of death on a Friday. Allah knows best.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Hasten to perform the two Raka'ts (Sunnatul Muakkadah) after the Maghrib (Fardh), for verily, these two Raka'ts are lifted (unto Allah Ta'ala) together with the Fardh." This is the Fatwa of our Nabi (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam). But what is the convoluted fatwa of the Tablighis? Misguided by Iblees with the pretext of deceptive 'tableegh', they act in blatant conflict with this command of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Their new bid'ah is a little talk or kitaab-reading immediately after the Maghrib Fardh Salaat.

Instead of obeying Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) by engaging in the Sunnatul Muakkadah Salaat, they accord greater importance to their talk. This is subtle 'kufr' camouflaged with an outer deeni fa- çade.

It is not permissible for Musallis to sit and be laboured with this impermissible talk/bayaan w h i c h R a s u l u l l a h (S all al la hu a la yh i wasallam) has proscribed. The Sunnatul Muakkadah Salaat has an inextricable link with the Fardh Salaat. If it is separated from the Fardh, it loses its Muakkad significance. It will then no longer be the Sunnatul Muakkadah ordered by the Shariah. The intervening talk transforms the Sunnatul Muakkadah into a Nafl.

It is Ghulu' (haraam extremism) which has ruined the Tabligh Jamaat. Be assured that the Angel/ s who take the Fardh Salaat to Allah Ta'ala will not wait for the Sunnat Salaat until the Tablighi has completed his talk. They will depart with only the Fardh Salaat and those who participate in the impermissible talk will be deprived of the immense thawaab of the two raka'ts Sunnatul Muakkadah which have to be incumbently attached to the Fardh Salaat.

ULTERIOR

MOTIVES

When a man who is supposedly a spiritual guide craves for initiating mureeds into his circle and goes to the disgraceful level of instructing his 'khaadims' to persuade and pressurize ignorant people to enter into his allegiance (bay't), it indicates the crookedness of his intention. His desire is to bolster the number of his following. He believes himself to be worthy of a big following. He hankers after the nafsaani desire of fame and perhaps he suffers from greed of wealth because usually bay't of this type comes along with its perks of hadaayah (gifts to the shaikh). This attitude of these spiritual guides is mercenary. Such 'guides' in the words of Hadhrat Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) are dacoits who rob people of their Imaan.

It is most dishonourable for a spiritual guide to desire that people enter into his circle. It is even more dishonourable for him to canvass for mureeds.

Regarding the desire for increasing one's circle of mureeds, Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thaanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said: "I do not like latitude in bay't. The only result of this (i.e. of the policy of indiscriminate bay't) is the increase (in one's following) of people of corrupt understanding and little intelligence. I am not enlisting volunteers for an army. It is sufficient to have a (spiritual) relationship with a couple of intelligent persons."

THE TREASURE OF ILLNESS

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Verily, when a Muslim visits his (sick) brother, he remains in the Garden of Jannat until he returns (i.e. takes leave)."

"Verily, Allah Ta'ala will say (to a person) on the Day of Qiyaamah: 'O Son of Aadam! I was sick, but you did not visit Me!' The person will say: 'O my Rabb! How could I visit You when You are Rabbul Aalameen?' Allah Ta'ala will respond: 'Did you not know that a certain servant of Mine was sick and you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him, you would have found Me by him?' " Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that 70,000 Malaikah (Angels) engage in Dua for the one who visits a sick person during the morning. These 70,000 Angels remain in supplication until the evening. If one then visits the sick during the evening, another group of 70,000 Angels engage in Dua-e-Maghfirat for him until the morning."

But, these munaafiq coprocreep bootlickers of the atheists flee from even their aged parents on the pretext of the covid devil.

pledge to obey the advic- the Tasawwuf Salaasil es and instructions of the (Chains) would also ac- Bay't means pledge of al- spiritual mentor in matters cept females into this legiance to a Shaikh pertaining to moral purifi- Pledge.

(spiritual guide). It is a cation. The Mashaaikh of The present era in close proximity to Qiyaamah is infested with fitnah and fasaad. Most, if not all, shaikhs purporting to be spiritual guides are grossly deficient in A'maal-e- Saalihah, in the Sunnah and even in the understanding of Tasawwuf and its objectives. In fact, most of them are bogus jaahil and morally diseased and spiritually bankrupt. Some supposedly senior 'mentors' specialize in seducing female 'mureeds'.

In view of the moral dangers posed by these wayward, miscreant sheikhs, it is haraam for females to become hooked to a sheikh by the system of bay't. For their moral purification and spiritual

waste time reading biographies of nonentities who have sudprogress women should denly mushroomed as read the books of the ' h a d h r a t s a n d Auliya of former times. buzroogs'. The works of They should also not the early Auliya and Sahaabah are more than adequate for acquisition of moral and spiritual direction. Never trust the scoundrels masquerading as spiritual guides.