TheRamadan of Shaykh Al-Hadith Ml ZakariyyaKandelwi by Dr Muhammad Ismail Memon Madani

Chapter Nine
and its false desires, it turned its back on the Creator. Be not like
those who forgot Allah u and He made them forget their own souls. The
gates of evil creaked open wide and corruption descended into
the cities, towns, homes, and even religious centers [schools] and
darkness enveloped everything.
These circumstances made Ĥađrat restless. As an inheritor of
the most pure inheritance [the nisba of Allah u] and a keeper
of the most important trust [the purity and nisba of his elders]
his restlessness was only expected. He saw the umma fulfilling
the basic obligations of Dīn but being deprived of the spirit,
fruit, and spiritual benefits of these obligations and good deeds.
He understood that the root cause for this downfall was our
indifference to the dhikr of Allah u, which was a consequence
of abandonment of the khanqā system and our ignorance towards
taśawwuf [one of the main pillars of the Dīn of Allah u]. Only
this pillar of Dīn rectifies the inner [spiritual] and outer [physical],
and imbues the qualities of sincerity, righteousness, sacrifice and
compassion, benevolence, love for the creation, lack of pretension,
cheerfulness, contentment and austerity, dependence on Allah u
and other such beautiful traits while cleaning out jealousy, hatred,
begrudgement, and other such evil traits. This is the greatest
tragedy which this umma continues to suffer today.
It is important to remember that Ĥađrat saw the spiritual
hubbub of the khanqās before the time of the partition. Memories
of those scenes still bring tears to his eyes and when he talks about
them he is overcome by a certain state. He remembers how the
hearts were illuminated, purification of the heart was revived, and
lives were changed in these khanqās. All these memories made
Ĥađrat restless. Finally, the need and importance of these khanqās
established themselves so strongly in his heart that he made it his
mission in life to establish a khanqā everywhere. He understood
that until the umma illuminates its heart with the dhikr of Allah
u and reconnects with Allah u the umma cannot bear the fruit
of its good deeds. This is especially important for the scholars who
are busy in the work of Allah u i.e. until they put their minds to
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