Table of Contents

فہرست عنوانات

The following topics appear in the discourses of this volume, in the order they occur in the text:

1. Fine Arts (Funun-e-Latifa) · 2. Knowledge and Feeling (Ilm wa Ahsas) · 3. Argumentation (Jadal/Jag-badal) · 4. Taqlid (Following a Legal School) · 5. Difference between Rakabiya and the Common Person · 6. Following One School While Acting on Another · 7. Hazrat Qibla's Ijtihad on the Issue · 8. The Rulings of Islam Are Valid for All Times · 9. Protection from Blind Taqlid Is Essential · 10. The State's School of Law · 11. Imaginary and Definite Things Appear Real · 12. Service to the Teacher · 13. Special Grace upon This Servant · 14. No Abrogation (Naskh) in the Quran · 15. Law of Testimony · 16. The Rightly Guided Caliphs · 17. The Khalifa · 18. The Door of Fitnah Is Closed by Hazrat Umar's Example · 19. True Knowledge and Contentment of the Heart · 20. Grace upon Students · 21. Being under Command (Taht-e-Hukm) · 22. The Standard of Intention (Niyyat) · 23. Difference among the Imams · 24. Raising of the Hands in Prayer (Rafa' Yadain) · 25. One Counsel · 26. The Ghawth's Era · 27. Some Remedies · 28. Karim Pasha · 29. Two Types of Qadiri · 30. Falsehood (Jhoot) · 31. Treatment of Muslims and Non-Muslims · 32. Our Principles · 33. Some Du'as and Prescriptions · 34. Compilation of Hadith · 35. Jurisprudential Schools (Fiqhi Madhabs) · 36. Difference among the Salikeen (Spiritual Wayfarers) · 37. The Address Style of the Imams · 38. The Command and Its Reason · 39. Compilation and Rejection of Hadith · 40. The Khawarij and Rawafidh · 41. The Books of the Imams · 42. The Madrasa-e-Nizamia Curriculum · 43. The Imam of Jurisprudence · 44. The Obligatory — Practical and Doctrinal · 45. Combining Two Prayers (Jam' Bayn al-Salatayn) · 46. The Imams of Hadith · 47. The Time of Asr Prayer · 48. Praise upon Students · 49. Arabic Literature · 50. Books on Hadith · 51. The Obligatory — Practical and Obligatory · 52. Mutawatir and Ahad (Categories of Hadith) · 53. Change of Qibla and the Ahad Narration · 54. The Law and Its Application · 55. Extraneous Sciences (Mutaraf 'Ulum) · 56. Characteristics of Kitab al-Din · 57. Grace upon Good Disciples · 58. Keeping One's Notes · 59. Mutawatir Hadith · 60. Muwatta (of Imam Malik) · 61. The English Language · 62. Du'as and Zakat · 63. The Kinship of Rahim Pasha · 64. The Hafiz · 65. Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Muawiya · 66. Seeking Knowledge · 67. Hazrat Ali's Connection with Bibi Fatima · 68. Qawwali (Devotional Music) · 69. The Importance of Nisbat (Spiritual Connection) · 70. Children's Dhikr · 71. Qadir Yar Khan · 72. Mutawatir and Non-Mutawatir · 73. Hazrat's Bay'at and Khilafat · 74. Shaykh-e-Hali · 75. The Teacher and the Murshid · 76. Mirza Ghalib · 77. Chirag Ali · 78. Iqbal al-Dawla and Mahbub Ali Khan · 79. The Mahdawi Sect · 80. The Hanafi of Jimbeli · 81. Hazrat Abu Bakr (Siddiq) · 82. The Physical System · 83. Rahim Pasha · 84. Shanta Allah Khan Sahib · 85. Tasawwur-e-Shaykh (Visualization of the Shaykh) · 86. The Sword Fight · 87. The Treasury of Tippu Sultan · 88. Tashbih (Simile/Metaphor) · 89. The Absolute and the Conditional (Mutlaq-Muqayyid) · 90. An Important Matter · 91. Humans and Angels · 92. The World of Testimony ('Alam-e-Shahadat) · 93. Tasawwur-e-Shaykh · 94. The Tajalli (Divine Manifestation) · 95. The Tajalli of the Shaykh · 96. Tasawwur and Purification of the Self · 97. The Scholar and the Ascetic (Zahid wa 'Alim) · 98. Exercise · 99. The Remedy for the Nation and the Land · 100. Reasons · 101. Children's Dhikr · 102. Inspiration (Ilham) · 103. Forbidden, Disliked, and Permitted (Haram, Makruh, Mubah) · 104. Bid'at (Innovation) · 105. Sama' (Spiritual Audition) · 106. Marriage and Customs · 107. The Wife's Important Quality · 108. Falsification in the Torah · 109. Kashf-e-'Uruj (Vision of Ascent) · 110. Islam's Peace-loving Nature · 111. Against the Sect (Dariyet Mazhab) · 112. The Successors of Khwaja Mahbub Allah · 113. Ijma' (Consensus) Cannot Be Wrong · 114. The Power of Imagination · 115. Breaking a Promise vs. Breaking an Oath · 116. The Rights of Mother and Father · 117. Du'a for Stopping Storms · 118. Logic (Mantiq) · 119. The Durations of Zakat · 120. The Age of Thirty-Five · 121. The Station of the Messenger of Allah · 122. Connection with Khwaja Mian · 123. Mentioning One's Disciples · 124. The Qadiyani Sect · 125. Answering the Mahdawis · 126. Eloquence and Bravery · 127. The Policy of the Rightly Guided Caliphs · 128. Suppressing Revolution · 129. The Power of Discernment · 130. Advice to Students · 131. Research into Meanings · 132. Both Warring Parties Are Muslim · 133. Gentle Humor · 134. The Governance of the Rightly Guided Caliphs · 135. Governance for the Worldly · 136. Muslims' Prayers for the Rulers · 137. Hazrat Ali and Muawiya · 138. Hazrat Abu Bakr and Politics · 139. Imam Hasan · 140. Benefit of Doubt · 141. Talha and Zubayr · 142. Mughira ibn Shu'ba · 143. Abdullah ibn Abbas · 144. Hazrat Ali's Opinion · 145. This Dark Age and Its Blessings · 146. The Torah · 147. If a Prophet Were Sinless · 148. Adultery and Satan · 149. Words of the Adhan · 150. The Wahhabi sect · 151. The Body and Divine Attributes · 152. Dhikr and Occupation · 153. Two Ways of Guidance and Mentorship · 154. Sufism Explained · 155. Mutawatir and Yaqini (Certain) · 156. The Causes of Imam Shafi'i · 157. The Composition When Rising from Sleep · 158. Completing the Witr Prayer (Tashfi' al-Witr) · 159. Du'a-e-Qunoot · 160. Civilization (Tamaddun) · 161. Advice to Disciples · 162. The Research of Meaning · 163. Advice on Silence · 164. Both Fighting Parties Are Muslim · 165. The Policy of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (continued) · 166. Governance to the Worldly · 167. Hazrat Abu Bakr and Politics (continued) · 168. Imam Hasan (continued) · 169. Talha and Zubayr (continued) · 170. Mughira ibn Shu'ba (continued) · 171. Abdullah ibn Abbas (continued) · 172. Hazrat Ali's Opinion (continued) · 173. Hazrat Abu Bakr and Siyasat · 174. Imam Hasan's Abdication · 175. Benefit of Doubt (Husn al-Zann) · 176. Mughira ibn Shu'ba's Removal · 177. Abdullah ibn Abbas's Stance · 178. Hazrat Ali's View · 179. The Wahhabi sect · 180. Body and Divine Attributes · 181. Dhikr and Occupation · 182. Words of the Adhan · 183. The Causes of Imam Shafi'i · 184. Composition on Rising from Sleep · 185. Completing the Witr · 186. Du'a-e-Qunoot · 187. Civilization · 188. Mutawatir and Yaqini · 189. Sufism Explained · 190. Two Ways of Guidance and Mentorship · 191. Civilization (Tamaddun) — Final Sitting