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Nabeel and the Nightmare
Ask your children:
1. What should we do when we see a nightmare?
2. Are witches, wizards and people who do magic good people or bad people?
3. Before we sleep, what should we read for protection?
Now tell them the story:
Nabeel was a little boy who was fascinated with magic! He liked to read stories about wicked witches and evil wizards. In fact, he liked magic so much that he would read …
Fear of Deviation and Desire for Hajj
Correspondence of Hazrat Moulana Shah Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Saheb (rahimahullah)
Condition:
I am very fearful of going astray. I think about my destiny very often and I do not know what is written for me. I constantly make du‘aa to Allah Ta‘ala for my destiny by saying, “O Allah! Make my destiny good. Save me from deviation.”
I have an extreme desire to perform hajj and ‘umrah, and to visit the blessed …
Cautious in Consumption
Abul Hasan Makki (rahimahullah) had a daughter, living in Makkah Mukarramah, who was even more pious than him. Such was her simplicity and austerity that she lived and survived on a mere thirty dirhams (silver coins) for the year. Her father would send her this sum from the profit he made by selling mats woven by him from palm leaves.
The neighbour of Abul Hasan Makki (rahimahullah), Ibnur Rawwaas, relates the following:
I intended leaving for hajj, and so I went …
