Live while we're young!

So it's 31st Ramadan of my life. I'm not sure how many more I will be able to live up to. Time passes so fast. It feels just yesterday I was 25 and now I'm 31. I'm already half senior citizen!

I was looking at a colored watch on online store and then thought I'm too old to wear these now. Over the past 5 years I have owned t shirts of almost all the colors and all the brands and sneakers and jeans and everything a young man wants.

I'm grateful to Allah that I could fulfill all my fantasies of food, clothes and shoes so that now at 31, I do not regret that I couldn't wear that branded T shirt or that sneaker.

I also don't really regret that I didn't save much from my salary during my mid 20's but spent them on shopping.  Now I have memories to cherish for my life rather than missing all the fun.

Live while we're young!

How to study fiqh (or other) books?

One of the very common question asked by students of knowledge is that "How do I study and by-heart all the masails of Bahar e Shariat or any other book of fiqh masails like Fataawa Ridawiyyah etc? Well the fact is these books are not meant to be memorized. 

These books serve as reference guide or encyclopedia which should be referred when needed.
In Islamic scholarship, the books can be divided into 3 categories:

1) Mutoon
2) Shuruhaat (including hashiya)
3) Fataawa

1) Mutoon are the core text of a subject which covers the most important parts of the subject along with most correct ruling (mostly) on issues. For example, you may consider them as a fruit concentrate bottle, which can be easily packed & transported and when needed, can be made into 100 glasses of juices.   

Mutoon texts are usually of a small booklet, size of, around 50 to 150 pages. These are meant to be memorized. Though its not prevalent in South Asian countries but most of the Arab countries Islamic universities required their students to memorize the mutoon in various subjects.

Since these are small booklets and can be memorized easily, they serve as the main way to spreading a school of thought i.e mazhab. 

In Fiqh Hanafi major mutoon in Fiqh are : Bidaya tul-mubtadi, Mukhtasarul Quduri, al-Mukhtar, an-Niqaya, al-Wiqaya, Kanz ul-Daqaiq. 

If you are really serious about scholarship, try memorizing the matan. 

You may think that when I can memorize a book of 50 to 150 pages, why shouldn't I memories the Quran instead? That's a good thought, but remember every subject has its own importance, we can not ask students studying and memorizing texts in Arabic grammar like Hidaya tun-Nahw or Kaafia to give it up and instead memorize Quran, as Arabic grammar is one of the most important tool to understand the Quran.

2) Shuruhaat : These are explanations or marginalia on the mutoon texts. As you have read that mutoon are the core texts and concentrates to spread the teaching of a school of thought (mazhab), these are normally hard to understand and hence require a guide. For example: Sharah Wiqaya is sharah of al-Wiqaya, Durre-Mukhtar is sharah of al-Mukhtar, Hidaya is sharah of Mukhtasarul Quduri etc. 

These shuruhaat serve as aid to understand the core texts and hence doesn't have to be memorized.

3) Fataawa : These are rulings on the various issues derived from the Mutoon & Shuruhaat etc. These books are meant to be a reference book for scholars. Examples are like Fataawa Hindiyah, Fataawa Shaami etc.

Bahar-e-Shariat and most the other rulings books fall under the Fataawa category, hence not meant for memorizing. These books should be read in parallel to mutoon. Example, if you reading Kitab us-Salat, Bab ul-Qirat in a matan, try reading the corresponding chapter in Shuruhaat or Fataawa (or Bahar-e-Shariat).

If you are not a student of Islamic scholarship program but just a reader, then I would suggest you to start studying from small books on a subject, like in fiqh study Anwar-e-Shariat (a small booklet) and then move to Qanoon-e-Shariat (a small book) and then move to Bahar-e-Shariat (multi volume book). This way you will be able to understand the rulings more clearly and also able to memorize.

Have a habit of reading the book everyday for 15-30 mins, in these 15-30 mins try to understand the rulings and NOT to memorize them. Most of the students either never start or stop in middle while studying multi volume books because they try to memorize it, when the fact is that these books are not at all meant to be memorized. Try to go through the books whenever you have free time.

My way of study is to read the books as and when required. Before the start of Ramadan I try to read the rulings on Fasting, Taraveeh & Zakaat. Similar when its Zil Hajj, I refer to the parts of Hajj & Sacrifice. 

Hope this post will help the students of sacred knowledge. If it did then, kindly pray for me.

Wassalam

Muhammed Kashif al-Ansari

Private Job Life.

It's been more than 9 years that I'm working in corporate world. Though we are paid good but we don't have the luxury of government job.
Over the last 9 years I have seen everything from being ill treated to not being appreciated. I have worked long hours and have bore the wrath of my supervisors. People have been biased to me. Though these things were heart breaking and caused emotional breakdown, my Allah was watching all these and hence all this made me a better person and a better professional.

Every time I reached the threshold of bearing these shit, I tried to work hard and get out of the situation. I was able to change 3 companies and get 100% hike in a single year just because I couldn't hold back and made extra effort to get out. As per me, if you are not being recognized and appreciated its the time to leave the company.

I'm going through the same phase again. The firm I have joined six months back doesn't has anything good other than salary. There is huge work load and even after being a  Lead, I'm expected to sit and code. And then there are useless escalations. I can't handle all these anymore. May my load help me again like every time he helped me.

Sometimes I wish, I should start own business but I have seen family business getting collapsed. Business is luck and then you need to have so much of funds that even if your business doesn't work out you have money to continue living with your standard life style.

In a salaried profession, you have the assurance that you will get the pay check at the end of the month.

May Allah reward me with a good life and professional success. Aameen.

Wedding bells.

Alhumdulillah, I got married early this month and now back to Bangalore. I'm not very comfortable with people so getting into a new family and dealing with them was really difficult.

Since I took a virtual death in 2013 deleting all my social network accounts, I was left with only one friend who joined me with his wife at Kanpur.

Weddings are always fun and more than that its a time when you meet relatives after ages and even the ones whom you never saw or met. Though I reached just a day before my baraat but still had good time with family. The 4 hour baraat journey was a fun ride.

Next day was my younger brother's wedding with my cousin, so it was all home affairs and hence more fun. Bride as well as Groom sides where our own relatives.

3rd day was our Walimah, which went as perfect as previous two days weddings. More than elders its children who enjoy the functions and that's what happened here. Cousins were so elated and happy.

Finally after two weeks at Kanpur, we flew back to Bangalore.

I have a hectic work schedule in this new company and hence unable to give much time to family. But since I stay with my parents I don't have to worry much about it. I hope I find a better job very soon, in sha Allah.

So this is what is happening in my life right now. Kindly pray for my married life and better job.

Stay blessed <3

May be I should be a Dayii

From the time I was driven into religious dogma, I had special attraction towards Fiqh, the jurisprudence. I still have this extreme love for it. I have more than 1800 audio answers recorded and uploaded, and there are thousands others which are unrecorded. I have more Fiqh & Fataawa books than any other book in my library and on my laptop.

However offlate I'm thinking about moving into another area, the area of tabligh or preaching. There are already many Mufti's with us, yes, by the grace of Allah, may be I was the first indian in Ahlus Sunnah to write fatawas and books in English. I would continue to do this, but I want to do something more.

I have read about Allamah Abdul Aleem Merathi, Ahmad Deedat, Habib Ahmad Mashur and other great preachers who spent their life in spreading the true teachings of Islam.

Presently the people whom we see on pulpit, YouTube, Facebook are mainly Wahabis and Deobandis. Muslim youths get attracted to them because of their nice dresses and good english speaking skills, but these wahabi speakers and preachers pose great risk. They interpret the Quran and traditions of Prophet in hardline and radical way cause them to leave the tradition sunni Islamic way.

Ahlus Sunnah is correct interpretation of Quran and traditions. All the Saints and Soofiyas who gave the message of humanity, love and compassion and propagated true teachings of Islam belong to Ahlus Sunnah.

In preaching there are different types 1) Preaching muslims so that they correct their beliefs and deeds. 2) preaching to non-Muslims.

While preaching to muslims is easy as compared to other one but both require high level of maturity and commitment. You need to well versed about the common questions and there answers which should satisfy the listener. You should be very well read and an ama zing speaker to conquer your audience.

I have worked with an organization which worked in the area of preaching to Muslims but not the other one.

I want to be a daayi, in sha Allah.   

Ramdan 2015

Its 30th Ramadan of my life and Alhumdulillah its going perfect. Last year it was quite tense due to family issues, but this year all is good.

I have shifted to a new workplace in March. This is quite far from my home and doesn't have any work from home option, instead they have mandatory yearly average of 9+ hours which every employee much conform to. I start early by 7.30am and hence get back by 6.30pm.

In my previous organizations the timings were really flexible along with no restriction on timings. I used to reach office by 11-12noon and get back by 6-7pm with almost no work.

Here I have to observed 9 hours along with that I have work too which keeps me occupied. I remember last time I was in a project and it had work was Nov 2011. After that to whichever Project and company I shifted I didn't had any work other than to reach office, spend some time and come back home.

 Now, 12 hours of my 24 hours day is at work hence leaving me with almost no time to work on my commitments. However I still find the time to go to Gym and Study.

There used to be a time when our whole family used to be present in Ramadan. Though the resources were limited but still my parents made sure that we have best of food and savories. Alhumdulillah now, Allah has blessed us with everything.

My younger brother who works with an automobile giant is in different city and youngest brother has completed his engineering this year and will be moving to another city in some months. So its gonna be only parents and two brothers now.

Allah is the best of planners.

  And Allah is the best of planners. (Quran 8:30)

This is indeed true. It takes for a while for us to understand but when we get the hikmah behind that we are just purely amazed.

After +2 I wanted to be a doctor but landed in an engineering college and before completing engineering I was selected for a firm.I was upset when I couldn't become a doctor but it was all in my favor.

I'm afraid of blood and flesh and moreover most of the doctors in India are able to do only graduation in medicine. PG in medicine can be done only if you are super intelligent or super rich. I fall short in both. So even if I would have got into UG it wouldn't be possible to do a PG. People try for years together to get a PG seat.

An MBBS doctor earns around 40-50K which is easily earned by an engineer in initial days of career. I'm not negating the value of being a doctor but its just that it was really not suited for me and hence my lord chose the best path for me.

There were around 46 students from my engineering institute who were selected for a technology firm at Bangalore. Almost all of them joined on 9 June at Bangalore, but I was asked to join on 26th at Chennai, alone, even though I'm from Bangalore. Yes I was sad and worried about moving to a completely new city which is infamous for its hot-hotter-hottest weather and hell for north Indians.

I reached Chennai and joined the firm. My supervisor was a very rude lady she literally made me cry in project. Everyday with her was a torture for me. I hated her, hated my job and hated myself. But this was the time when I understood the technology in-depth and it was the knowledge which I gained during this period which made me so competent in technology that till date, i.e. after 9 years, it acts as a strong foundation as I never worked so much in my career at later firms.

While in college I found a homeopathic doctor at Chennai for one of my medical issue, but at that moment of time I never imagined that I would go to Chennai. But see how perfectly my Almighty Allah planned for me. I was in Chennai now, met the doctor and started my treatment. The treatment required me to meet the doctor after every 15 days and then take the medicine for next 15 days. I stayed in Chennai for 13 months and was able to complete the treatment successfully.

I moved to Bangalore after 13 months in the same firm. Work was fine unless I was put under a useless and biased supervisor. No matter how good my work is, his work was to find fault in that. he started making personal comments too. He was so much behind me that he asked me to change a software code in my name and later when it was installed in production it failed causing the issues at client place. This software failure was reported to higher managers and I was in a fix. It was year 2009-2010 when entire US was under financial breakdown which caused havoc on Indian IT firms. Almost all the firms where firing the employees, my firm fired around 13000 employees in which I lost one of my best friend from college.

To make it worst Appraisal cycle also arrived. I was sure that I'm going to be kicked out of the company just like other lady in my project. I had recently purchased my bike and had a loan to repay, I was so much worried and anxious.

But destiny behaves in amazing ways and hope comes when you have lost all of it. I got a new job at an International IT firm with kind-of better pay. This is how my Almighty Allah saved me.

Okay, so I spent around 4 years in second firm. The first 3 years were in software development where I absolutely had no major work. The only work I had to do was to reach office and come back home. At the end of second project I was in free pool i.e. without any project for around 2 months, so my resource manager asked to me join the HR department of the firm.

I was the contractor hiring manager here. It was here that I understood the band and salary structure of the company. I understood at what level of experience which band should be given and how much salary should be expected.  When I looked at my band and salary was so ashamed.

Like my first firm, my new manager at HR department was also very biased. The appreciation mails of other team mates were forwarded to whole team but in my case it absent. One Stakeholder personally went to my manager and told him how I had closed a requirement which was pending from a long time and which lead to project being awarded to our firm. But my manager was quiet, no appreciation either by mail or oral.

In appraisal he ruined my rating. I was furious and gave the resignation without any job in hand. The sickness of the Manager can be imagined by the fact that usual notice period is 3 months but he reduced it to 2 months knowing the fact that I do not have any job in hand. This time also I had a loan to repay.

And here came the help from my Lord! on the last day at job I got the job offer from 3rd firm with correct designation and around 50% hike in pay (which I was able to negotiate due to my stint at HR).

Now at 3rd firm, everything was fine. The project, the people, the manager everyone was fine and work was very smooth. But I didn't had the profile for which I was hired. I waited for few months and proved my capabilities, even though I didn't had to do this because I was already at high band, and had a talk with Manager for  my correct work profile. The reply was not very convincing and hence I decide to move on. Just after 9 months at this firm, I gave interview for 4th firm, got selected as Lead and put down my resignation. Along with correct role they gave me 50% hike in pay.

So within one year, I shifted 2 jobs, got promoted to Lead  and got pay hike of more than 100%, Alhumdulillah.

One thing I forgot to mention. During my tenure at 2nd firm my marriage was fixed but just one month before wedding it was called of due to religious incompatibility. If I would have had got married I wouldn't have got the guts to resign without any job in hand and I would have continued at same designation and same pathetic pay. But Allah is the best planner, he had a perfect plan for me. He helped me get rid of religiously incompatible lady and rewarded me with better position and pay.

Allah azzawajal has rewarded me immensly in every walk of life. He has rewarded me with dunyawi as well as ukhrawi things.

So if you are having any trouble in life; pray to Almighty Allah and be assured that there is a better plan for you by the best of planner.

May Allah azzawajal accept me and keep rewarding this very sinful servant of his majesty self: Aameen, 

Recieved Ijazah of all the books of Imam Shaykh Shahabuddin Suharwardi

I have received complete Ijazah to narrate and propagate of all the books especially 'Awarif ul-Muarif' of Shiekh ul-Shuyukh Shahabuddin Soharwardi from Hazrat Syed Awais Ali Soharwardi of Lahore.
Hazrat was kind to accept my bait-e-taubah  in Silsila-e-Aaliyah Suharwardiyah and grant me complete Ijazah of all the books of founder of Suharwardiyah Silsilah.

Some of the famous books of Shaykh Suharwardi are:

1) Jazb ul-Quloob ila Mawaasilatil Mahboob : On the topic of Tasawwuf.
2) Rashf ul-Nasaih : On the topic of Ilm ul-Kalaam.
3) A'elaam ul-Huda : On refutation of old Philosophers.
4) Awarif ul-Muarif : One of the most famous and complete book on Tasawwuf of Imam.

Distinction of Awarif ul-Muarif
Shaykh Abul Hashim Soofi was the first person who established first Khanqah in the city of Ramla around 300 Hijri for the stay of mureedeen and muttabi'een and later these Khanqaahs were established all around by Soofis but there was no code of conduct or rule book to run these Khanqahs. Shaykh Suharwardi has the honor of being the first one who created rules and regulations for Khanqahs. 

A trip to Madurai and Nikah Bayan

My very old friend Mohammed Safi Attari invited me to deliver a speech at his family wedding at Madurai. I have known Safi bhai for around 8 years now, we met at a Dawat-e-Islami gathering and later came to know that we work for the same company.

It was Safi Bhai, Syed Rabbani Bhai and faqeer Qadri who were among the people who laid the foundation of DI in Bangalore. I have seen Safi and Rabbani bhai doing inventory , marking prices and ordering of maktab for whole nights. Wherever we used to have a religious program they would be there, carrying maktab on their bikes. In one of SDI's Ijtima we were not allowed to have Maktab stall at Ijtimagah so we kept our stall outside and sold books for over 25 thousand rupees in two days.And yes it was all fi sabeellillah, no petrol reimbursement no waqf-e-madinah guys.

However times changed and we all kind-of moved out of the tahreek. Safi bhai shifted to Malaysia, Syed Rabbani got busy with his business and I moved on to study my Ifta course, but the love between us remained the same.Its been 4 years now but when I think about it, it seems like just yesterday. 

First batch of Ihya Academy graduates!

Alhumdulillah, after more than three years of rigorous teaching and studying first batch of Scholars graduated out of the Academy with 3 Aalims & 1 Aalimah.May Allah bless these Ulema with success in both the worlds: Aameen.

Ihya Academy was a dream which I had pursued when I was studying the Aalim course. I know how much hardship I had to go through to realize my dream of becoming an Aalim. Spending 9.5 hours at office, 3+ hours in commuting and still continuing to go to Jami'ah and study everyday. Pushed out of Jami'ah and took shelter in Masjid, but myself and my teacher were not spared there and we had to move to local graveyard. Neither I lost the zeal nor my esteemed teacher lost the energy and we continued. Imagine visiting the graveyard every morning, everyday. I completed my Hadeeth texts and Fiqh texts in graveyard.

I didn't want that same hardship is repeated by any other student of knowledge so I planned to start an online academy which should teach the traditional course completely over internet. The child plan was put into action when I graduated from my Fazilat class in 2010. 

The flyers were sent  via emails and the response was enormous. Around 20 students from across the world joined the Academy and the course started on 1st Oct 2010. In our society it is a common mentality that the child who doesn't study is sent to Jami'ah to become an Aalim, so people have a notion that Aalim course is easy. But reality is completely different. Just like any other course Aalim course also requires hard work, determination and persuasion. In fact this course requires more attention than other worldly courses as other certifications and diplomas will remain back in this world but this diploma of Islamic studies will go with you in your grave and to the next world.

Over a period of time, as the level of study increased people left due to unable to cope up to the required dedication and hard work except four. Number 4 is a wonderful number. There are 4 khulafa, 4 Mazahibs and 4 Tareeqahs. So with the blessings of the number 4 these four students continued to study and reach to the next level.

And finally the day came which I always dreamed of, the day of their graduation. Mufti Zulfaqar Naeemi taught my students the last Hadeeth of Mishkat Shareef. 

Just like a farmer becomes happy on seeing his good fields same is the case with a teacher. Its a proud moment of a teacher to see his students graduate. In fact a teacher is spiritual father of his students. Imam Ahmad Rida wrote that a teacher is deputy of Prophet for the students.

I'm grateful to Almighty that he gave me the opportunity to be at service of  these wonderful and talented students of knowledge.  May Almighty make them shining stars of Ahlus Sunnah and a cause for my salvation on the day of Judgement : Aameen.

Alhumdulillah the second batch started from Jan 2014 and there are around 8 students from across the globe. I taught all the books of all the subjects for the first batch but this time I'm proud that graduates Maulana Mahboob & Maulana Imran are teaching the new batch. May Allah bless them with Ilm o Amal and make them a better mukhlis mu'allim.

Its been 2 years since I last wrote here. Well a lot has happened in these 2 years. The first batch of Ihya Academy graduated with 3 Aalims and 1 Aalimah. 2nd batch of 8 students is in progress with the students of the first batch teaching them.There are 1500+ fatawas online on NafseIslam now. I have been writing answers to the questions posted to me from across the world.

Alhumdulillahi ala zaalika.

in sha ALLAH, I will be writing about them in detail sometime soon.

100+ and counting

Its been ages since i wrote about anything on my blog.Actually blog was the only way to express my feelings but now i have really been blessed with some good friends with whom i could share my feelings and hence didn't find the need to blog.

It was around 4 months back when a brother contacted me for the English booklet I wrote on Allama Fazle Haq Khairabadi.After that we became very good friends and later found out the we have so much in common.

The brother is from one of the largest AhleSunnat website with more than 60,000 visitors per month, NafseIslam .He and his another friend, who is founder of the website urged me to take up the Mufti Service they started on their website as the Mufti they were looking for was not in town and questions were pouring in. Finally I took up the task with the name of ALLAH and today Alhumdulillah I have completed more than 100 audio fatwas: Alhumdulillahi ala zalika

May ALLAH give me Ikhlas and protect me from errors in replying to questions.

I present the sawaab of these 100+ fatwa's to complete ummat-e-muslima,especially Huzur Sayyade Aalam SallallahuAlaihWassalam ,Khulafa-e-Rashideen,All Sahaba,All A'imma,Huzur Imam-e-Azam,Huzur Gaus-e-Paak & Huzur Khwaja Gareeb Nawaz, Imam-e-AhleSunnat & Mufti-e-Azam Hind raziALLAHuTa'alaUnhum.

May ALLAH, with the barkat of this service, protect me in this world and after :Aameen

tanha :(

Its been a longtime,being alone.

Some of the Sunni organizations have asked me to join them.But very frankly,first love is first love.I cant give my all love & dedication to any other organization.

I am all alone now.Late night from 11pm to 12MN, I am up with my laptop,my books and my students teaching them old Arabic scripts.

This is what I'm doing these days,out of people,out of lime light.

Dil Mein Ho Yaad Teri,Go Sha-e-Tanhaayi Ho

Fir To Khalwat Mein Ajab,Anjuman Aaraayi ho!

Ramzan 2011

Alhumdulillah Im seeing 26th Ramzan of my life now!

This ramzan is quite calm as compared to previous years,as I have left behind the group I was associated with.The period between last ramzan to this ramzan has been disastrous for me.I did some of the greatest mistakes I never imagined even in my dreams.

Today after taraveeh,I offered 2 raka'at Salatut Tauba and make sincere tauba for all the mistakes I have done so far. May ALLAH Azzawajal give me istiqamat over my Tauba and make this Ramzan zaria-e-nijaat for me : Aameen

I know ghosts of past will haunt me,I beg ALLAH azzawajal to protect me from them:Aameen

posses-ism

I have always being a victim of posses-ism.When I was in school I had possessive friends around me, when I moved to college, again, had possessive friends and when i moved to other part,the religious part of my life, again I could find super possessive friends.

I was never possessive. In fact I hated posses-ism.But now I guess even I have grown this trait. I was wondering what makes us possessive,it is the fear to loose the person or something else?I don't know.

Every person has a right to live the life as per his wish,No body can direct him,this was my answer to my possessors.They got hurt,some even cried, though I knew they did everything for me and would do anything for me.

Then why I'm having this feeling now?Is its because I never cared about the feelings of my possessors,and this is result of that?

Split personality

per Wikipedia:

Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.

I guess I am also suffering from Split personality disorder.When I am at Office,I am different.
When I am at Home,I am Different. When I am with friends,I am different & When I am with other friends I am different.And every time totally different. Am I faking to myself or to the world?

I change so many faces every now and then.Is it only me or other people also experience this? Sometime I understand the amanat I have and sometime I totally forget that I'm a human. One moment I am with friends in Imama & Jhubba and other moment roaming with my friend in T-Shirt & Jeans.

I am tired of these changing faces & personalities.Why cant I stick to one,my true self?I Finally want to stick one face,my true face.I know its difficult,very difficult but I have to do it now.

The night of Shab-e-Bara'at is approaching fast.Book of deeds of previous years will be closed and new book will be opened and fate for next one year will be written. When I think of Book of deed which is going to be closed I become happy seeing that,I graduated as Faazil, got authorization of Silsila-e-Qadiriya,Got permission to write fatawas,started worlds first pure Sunni academy and started teaching Aalim course, but at same time when I look at some of other deeds,which i never even dreamt of ,happened,I feel sad & ashamed.May ALLAH azzawajal forgive all my previous sins and convert them into rewards and bless me with life in next year as per his & his Rasool's wish:Aameen.

Gande Nikamme Kameen,Manhge ho Kodi Ke Teen
Kaun Hamen Paalta,Tumpe Karoron Darood (Imam Ahmad Raza Khan Fazil-e-Barelvi)

Got Ifta Ijaza!!!!!!!!!!

Alhumdulillahi ala Ehsanihi,

Today I got oral ijaza from my ustaz Qazi-e-Bangalore Mufti Muhammed Aslam Misbahi to write fatwas.

As Jamia Bilal holds DastarBandi every second year,hence my formal dastarbandi will be held next year.I would be at Idara-e-Sharia Darul Ifta as Intern and assisstant Mufti,which would help me strengthen my knowledge and expertize in writing fatawas,inshahALLAH

My Ifta Sanad is as follows:

Muhammed Kashif->Mufti Aslam Misbahi-> Muhaqqiq Masail Jadeeda Mufti Nizamuddin Misbahi(Head Darul Ifta - Jamia Ashrafia) -> Faqeeh Aazam Hind Mufti Shariful Haq Amjadi ->SadrushSharia Mufti Amjad Ali Aazmi ->Aalahazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan

I am just so happy!!!!!!!

Mufti Sahab!!!

" Mufti Sahab idhar aaiye"
" Mufti Sahab chaliye Khana Kha lijiye"
" Ye hain hamare Mufti Kashif bangalore se"

OMG...They are talking about me??????

How it feels when someone calls you Mufti?It feels great but am I worthy of it?I am sure NO,i am neither mentally nor intellectually Mufti. Yeah,I had a dream being a Mufti someday and that some day is arriving soon,next month. I used to read about Fatwa Raddul Muhtar,Fatawa Alamgere,Badai us Sanai etc. in books but never imagined one day I would read those books and give fatwa from these books. Around 5 years back,we had DawateIslami Ijtima near Jamia Bilal,at night due to congestion Muballighs had to sleep at terrace Idara-e-Shariah.It was never in my imagination one day I would be sitting here and writing fatwas.I still remember how I completed my Aalim course last year. During last year we didn't had a place to sit. My ustaz and me used to sit at Shanti Nagar graveyard. I took lessons of Bukhari Muslim & Hidaya in graveyard!

haaza fazlullahi yu tihi mainy ya sha'a
(This is blesing of ALLAH,he showers on whomever he wants)

I have been to my best friends marriage at Gangavathi. Alhumdulillah he is Muballigh hence called a lot of Ulema. His Nikah was read by his peer Mufti Mujeeb Ashraf Qibla(Khalifa-e-Mufti Azam Hind and Qazi-e-Shariah of Maharashtra) and with him there where dozens of other Ulema to bless him. Muballighs of SDI & DI were also present. Mufti Mujeeb Ashraf Qibla blessed me with his dua for ifta course and other works.I had an honor to meet Allama Qalandar Razwi who is Shiekhul Hadees at DarulUloom Raza-e-Mustafa,Raichur and Khalifa of Allama Najeeb Ashraf Sahab(Marehra Shareef) & Mufti Mujeeb Ashraf Sahab Qibla. He very rarely has time and alhumdulillah I had lengthy talks with him and other ulema. He was very happy listening to Ihya Academy and gave lots and lots of Dua's. He invited me to his Darul Uloom as Examiner for forthcoming Aalim final Annual examinations.He said "when you where introduced to me as Maulana Kashif,i thought on maddaa " ka sha faa" of your name and thought there should be some 'kashf' as name has some effect on personality and now after listening to work its clear,May ALLAH make you center of Faizan of Auliya and ALLAH will take from the work of AhleSunnat". I know these are the kind and encouraging words of elders and I know I am not at all worthy of these praises. May ALLAH azzawajal make me worthy of these praises:Aameen

The Nikah was on 30th and Walima on 31.In Nikah I met muballighs of SDI and had lengthy talk with them.While coming I had my train from Hospet which is 1.5 hour from Gangavathi. Before reaching Hospet SDI Muballigh called me and later recieved me at Bus Stop. We offered Magrib and had Dinner together and later after Eisha they came with me till Railway Station. Alhumdulillah I was impressed by their Akhaq.May ALLAH bless each and every Muballigh with best akhlaq & zeal to work for Ahle Sunnah:Ameen

Finally,May ALLAH bless my best of best friend Nooruddin Razwi with best of married life:Ameen

Mufti Kashif (:P)

SSF confrence May 2011

Alhumdulillah I had an honor to attend the SSF National conference in Bangalore.Around 100 delegates from around India attended the conference to talk abut the propagation of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamat in India.

The conference was presided over by Abdul Hakim Azhari.Maulana Hussain Saquafi gave speech on how each and every sect in Islam was introduced by Britishers let it be Wahabiyat or Deobandiyat. How even after whole family being Sunni some or the other member will subcribe to Wahabi thought.He talked about the Sunni masajids taken over by Wahabism and role of youth in propagation of Sunni thoughts.

After Zohar there was open session.I delivered a bayan on work of hanafi Sunni tahreek in Karnataka. I talked about the work done by DawateIslami, Sunni DawateIslami , Noori Foundation & Ihya Academy.

Sayyadina wa Shiekhuna Shiekh Abu Bakr Musliyar formally inaugurated the conference after Asar. He delivered a powerful urdu speech on Aqeeda and its importance.

Next day we had classroom session on 'How to Organize' taken by Advocate. Alhumdulillah it was a very interesting & informative session which provided us the information on how to organize the activities and lead them.

In Morning when i came to markaz,my friend Abdullah was leaving to meet Shiekh Abubakr Musliyar,I also went with him.When we reached the room,he was sleeping,he woke after a few minutes.I went to his bed, kissed his hands,he put his his blessed hands on my face and beard and asked what do I do.I told him I am studying Ifta,he asked which all books do you study,I told him the books name.I kept sitting at his bed side with his blessed hands in my sinful hands for several minutes.I asked him a sharai masla and he answered that.I would have really done something good that I got the opportunity to be with the Imam of 15th century:alhumdulillahi ala zalika

I came back to makaz.As i had to leave for Gangavathi for my best friends marriage I came back early before formal closure conference.

Alhumdulillah,In these 2 days I had the chance to interact with many Shafii Ulema who are working in different parts of India.It was an honor for me that I was invited by many to their institutes in Coimbatore & Pune.I really wish I could attend all these but due to my packed schedule I really doubt if its possible.

May ALLAH azzawajal take from me the work of AhleSunnat:Ameen

آرزوء

عمر کٹتی چلی جا رهی هے ،وقت گزتا چلا جا رها ے،لیکن غفلت کے بادل نهیں چهٹ رهے،قدم نهین رک رهے،گناهوں کی یلگار اور عصیاں کی بهرمار جهننم کی طرف لئے جا رهی هے.

یا الله مجهے ایمان و عافیت کے ساته حقیقی شهادت والی موت عطا فرما ،کیاپته میرے خون کے قترے میرے نامئےاعمال سے گناهوں کو مٹا دیں اور بروزقیامت تیری بارگاه میں چهرا دکهانے کے لاءق بنا دے : آمین