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

the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀ
Falling Unconscious During Śalāt
On the 29th of Ramadan, Ĥađrat fell in the first rak‘a (unit of śalāt)
of śalāt and remained sick for the next eighteen days. Everyone
was puzzled as to what had happened. Even Ĥađrat said nothing
beyond asking the doctors what had happened, but no one gave
a satisfactory reply. A long time after, one of Ĥađrat’s favorite
successors, Shaikh ‘Abd al- Raĥīm Mutāla once asked Ĥađrat,
“And Mūsa fell unconscious?” 19 Ĥađrat acknowledged with a simple
“Yes.”
Ĥađrat spent many Ramadan in Niżām al-Dīn. After a few
years, when Shaikh Yūsuf became established as the amir of the
Jamā‘a [and was not in need of Ĥađrat’s support as he had been in
the beginning of his tenure] and Ĥađrat no longer felt the need to
spend Ramadan in Niżām al-Dīn, he began the month of Ramadan
in Sahāranpūr. The main benefit of this move was that he became
more focused spiritually in Sahāranpūr, as will be mentioned in the
next few pages.
19 This is reference to the aya, “You cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain if
it stands still In its place Then You shall see me.” So when his Lord appeared to the mountain
, He made it collapse to dust, and Mūsa e fell down unconscious. 7:142
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