I don't consider myself to hold any significance when it comes to his eulogy.. much less over here, & far less on this lil online scribble of mine..
But ever since yesterday, something somewhere was lingering ..impelling me to write about the voice that taught Quran for the past 60 years, & my father.. infact my grandfather too, used to go attend his halaqah of Quran..
The voice never trembled & seldom went quiet.. & inshAllah will never die out.
Aside from making an utmost dua, I can't say if he is among the people of illiyeen or Firdaus or will indeed go to heaven etc [sheesh! i can't even say this for myself or my loved ones for that matter :/ ], since its not my place to judge or to have any say, whatsoever.
All i can say, however, is what beloved Rasool Allah (salaLLAhu alehi wa alihi wassalam) said, narrated in Sahih al Bukhari;
Noble Companion Uthman bin `Affan (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (salaLLahu alehi wa alihi wassalam) said;
"The best amongst you is the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it."
The numerous perils pakis are in, right now as we speak; are hard to hold for math's sake.
Nonetheless, the stance was clear when his locality & his place was hit hard with disaster on March 8th 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIa4NVYrkIs
>> Download to watch Video.
Its some 10 mins video - but if you're on a time crunch listen from 6 min onwards.
* Such an ahsan Gumaan he had with his fellow brothers..
[a good reminder for quick_in_blame_game folks, to hold on their hissy horses & get a lil less indoctrinated by zaid's broad brushed allegations.]
And if you ain't busy enough [even if you are..still] take some time out to listen to his last Khutbaa Jum'a Here;
& his Last public speech Here;
Its but amazing that his last Khutbah of his last Juma'h on this earth, was on 1st Surah of Quran.. & that too its 1st Ayah..
Its been 24 hours since my cell buzzed up for news of his passing..
It was Tahajjud time here & Fajer time there..
Just before the Dawn broke here & people got going for Fajer Namaz.. behind teary eyes a shining thought struck somewhere;
'It dawns first over there in pak ... before it even dawns here! '
Yaa Raab! your slave Israr Ahmed believed in peace through Khilafat there... & tranquility & prosperity.. Your slave migrated on foot.. eating drinking scant for 20 days straight, to cross that blood-border along with million others with a gleam of dream still strong.. somewhere.
Accept his work.. his Duas.. him!
And before i get all overwhelmed again [which is a good thing though if followed by good deeds], i wind this post up with a dua;
"May Allah bless him with Jannat ul Firdaus.. & enable us to follow the teachings of Quran & Sunnah & establish the Quran & Sunnah as supreme law, in our individual & collective lives."
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