Book Name:Faizan-e-Imam Azam
footsteps of pious people, will make their future bright along with becoming the practicing Muslims, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! One of the reasons behind delivering the parables of our pious predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی is also that we listen to their blessed life history so that we strive and mould ourselves into practicing Muslims by following their blessed lives. In addition to that, we should seek true repentance from sins and try our best to follow in the footsteps of the pious predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی especially Imam-e-A’zam Abu Hanifah رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه. We will then have privilege to have abundance of blessings, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ. It is our good fortune that the blessed month of Sha’ban is showering its blessings and it is the blessed month, in which, Shab-e-Bara`at (i.e., the great night of salvation) comes along. Remember! Shab-e-Bara`at is extremely important night and it must not be spent carelessly. A shower of special blessings is descended in this sacred night. In this blessed night, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ frees people from Hell more than the number of hairs on the goats of the tribe Bani Kalb. It is mentioned in authentic books that the tribe of Bani Kalb had the largest number of goats among the tribes of Arabia.
Alas! There are some unfortunate people who are not forgiven even on Shab-e-Bara`at i.e. the night of deliverance. Shaykh Imam Bayhaqi Shaafi’i رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has reported in ‘Fadaail-ul-Awqat’: The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: Six (6) men [types of people] will not be forgiven even during this blessed night:
1 A habitual drunkard
2 The one who is disobedient to parents
3 The one who commits fornication
4 The one who breaks off relations
5 The one who sketches portraits
6 The tale-bearer. (Fadaail-ul-Awqat, pp. 130, vol. 1, Hadees 27)