The blessing of completing the Quran and the affections of the community
✍🏻 By the pen of Muhammad Aadil Arriyavi
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Ramadan is a sacred month of blessings, mercies, and forgiveness. In this blessed month, Allah Almighty grants His servants countless opportunities to worship, connect with the Holy Quran, and participate enthusiastically in good deeds. Fortunate are those who are blessed to serve the Holy Quran and recite it in Tarawih prayers during this month.
It is Allah Almighty's immense grace and favor that last night, I was blessed to complete the Holy Quran for the eighth time in Tarawih prayers. This is a great honor and a blessing worthy of gratitude for me. Alhamdulillah, ever since Allah Almighty blessed me with the wealth of memorizing the Quran, I have had the honor of reciting the Holy Quran through Tarawih every year in Ramadan, and this year too, I benefited from this blessing. After the completion of the Quran, as usual, this humble servant spoke for about half an hour on various important religious topics, including the virtue of the Quran, the greatness and blessings of Shab-e-Qadr (Night of Power), and the importance of serving and obeying parents. After that, the respected Imam of the mosque, Hafiz Riyazuddin Sahib, gave a very brief but comprehensive and effective sermon. After his impactful speech, a collective prayer was offered by him, and thus this blessed gathering came to an end. It is also a special grace of Allah Almighty that, Alhamdulillah, not a single Tarawih prayer was missed during the entire month of Ramadan. This is a special grace and mercy of Allah Almighty, for which no amount of gratitude is enough.
Where I got the opportunity to stay to lead the Tarawih prayers, the people there are truly very kind-hearted, good-natured, loving, and sincere. They always inquired about my well-being, greeted me with a smile, and treated me with great respect and affection. We stayed there for a month, but we never felt any sense of alienation. Although the environment was new to us, the love, sincerity, and affection of the people there made us feel as if we were among our own people. The atmosphere there was also very beautiful. Everyone meeting with smiling faces, sitting together and talking about religion and worldly matters, spending time with each other – all these moments created a special place in my heart.
Today, when the time came to leave, my heart was truly very sad. I met all the gentlemen in a loving manner, and many friends even came to the bus station to see us off. To be honest, it is very difficult for a person to return from a place where such a pure environment and such sincere and loving people are found. The heart desires to stay there, but due to the compulsions and responsibilities of life, it is also necessary to return because one cannot always stay in one place. In the end, from the depths of my heart, I pray that Allah Almighty always keep all these loving, sincere friends, and the people of the community happy and prosperous, grant them health and well-being, always shower happiness, blessings, and comforts in their homes, and grant them success and triumph in this world and the hereafter. Amen, then Amen, O Lord of the Worlds.