Hereafter. Allah granted him many excellences, an idea of which can be gleaned from the fact he was a saint from birth.^[1]

He began fasting as soon as he was born. Drinking milk at suḥūr time, he would then fast all day and open it at sunset. His formal Islamic studies began at the tender age of 5. When this process began, he recited ‘اَعُوْذُ بِاللّٰہِ مِنَ الشَّیْطٰنِ الرَّجِیْم’ and ‘بِسْمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْم’, and then went on to recite 18 parts of the Quran from memory. “My mother had also memorised this much", he explained. “She would recite and I memorised by listening (whilst still in the womb).”^[2]

The honourable shaykh offered fajr salah with the wuḍū of ʿishāʾ for 40 years. His habit was to immediately perform wuḍū and offer two rakꜤāh (units) of voluntary prayer, as soon as he left the state of wuḍū.^[3]

He performed a huge amount of worship in his blessed life. For 15 years, he completed a full recital of the Quran every night.^[4] Alongside this, he would offer 1000 rakꜤah (units) of voluntary salah a day.^[5]

He taught 13 Islamic sciences. Students of his madrassah would study Quranic commentary, hadith, and jurisprudence and a host of other subjects. Before and after midday, he taught Quranic commentary, hadith, jurisprudence, theology (ʿilm al-kalām), principles and Arabic syntax. After ẓuhr salah, he taught the sciences of Quranic recitation.^[6]

At his blessed hand, 500 non-Muslims accepted Islam and over 100,000 bandits, robbers, mischief makers and grave sinners repented.^[7]