His car was parked at his doorstep and in its direction, his driver had opened a car door in anticipation of his arrival. To obtain his permission for accompanying him, I was waiting for him outside his residence. One fortunate day, I was blessed with the opportunity to accompany Shaykh Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani on a Nikah ceremony that was to be conducted in a vicinity near Darul’Uloom Karachi (1). According to its commentators, he made such a claim because the company of the pious can teach a person numerous invaluable lessons that he may, otherwise, remain unaware of even if he engages himself in voluntary (Nafl) worshiping for extended periods of time. Maulana Rūmi has remarked in his ‘Masnavi’, “A moment in the company of the Awliyā’ (friends of Allah) is better than a hundred years of (voluntary) worshiping”.
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