Every month, Hazrat Hakim Sahib teaches the world famous book, embellished with Tauheed and Risalat, “Halqa Kashf-ul-Mahjub”. A large number of readers attend this lesson. Following is the summary of nearly two hours lecture.

In today’s lecture Sayyed Ali Hijveri is teaching us that there are two states; one is wealth and the other is poverty. How should we spend our lives? Should we wear cast-off, patched clothes or make show of the blessings Allah has bestowed upon us? Should we live in a small hut or in a durable house? And should we make a gate or hang a sack in the entrance? Should we wear worn-down, broken shoes or are we allowed to wear sophisticated sandals? The dress should be made of cotton or sackcloth and should it be rough or fine? When a dervish takes up his journey, many questions arise and he comes across many different ways. Sayyed Ali Hijveri says one should adapt Sunnah in every condition whether it is good or bad as both paths lead to Allah. In the moments of happiness or grief, poverty or wealth, we should keep in view what Allah wants us to do.

In short, we have to accept whatever Allah blesses us with. If He keeps us in poverty, we should bear it with patience and if He blesses us with wealth, we should be thankful to Him. A saint said that one cannot be out of the two situations; either it would be the state of gratitude or poverty. If he is granted with blessings in abundance, he is in the state of gratefulness. If God forbid, he is deprived of all the blessings, he is in poverty. If he is blessed and he makes the right use of the blessings for example he does not become proud and arrogant, it means that he is on right path. Unlike this, if he is deprived of all the blessings and he becomes thankless or if he sees others being blessed and feels hatred or envy for them, it means that he is not satisfied with Allah’s distribution. May Allah protect us all and grant us with the blessings of patience and gratefulness. Ameen.