The Blessings of Duʿā, Healing Through Faith, and Important Rulings of Fasting

Delay in fulfilment of Du’ā is blessing

Sayyidunā Maulānā Naqī ‘Alī Khān رَحْمَةُ اللہِ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہ has said, ‘My dear! Your Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says:

I answer the prayer of the praying one when he prays to Me. أُجِيْبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ  [Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 2, Sūrah Baqarah, verse 186)

And how excellent fulfiller (of supplication) We are. فَلَنِعْمَ الْمُجِيْبُونَ  [Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 23, Sūrah Ṣāffāt, verse 75)

Pray to Me, I shall answer your prayer. أُدْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ  [Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 24, Sūrah Mūmin, verse 60)

So believe that He عَزَّوَجَلَّ will not return you empty handed from His court and He عَزَّوَجَلَّ will fulfil His promise. He عَزَّوَجَلَّ says to His Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ:

And chide not the beggar. وَأَمَّا السَّائِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ  [Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 30, Sūrah Ad-Duḥā, verse 10)

(So then) how will He عَزَّوَجَلَّ (himself) reject you? In fact, عَزَّوَجَلَّ blesses you, which is why He عَزَّوَجَلَّ delays in fulfilling your supplications.' (Ahsan-ul-Wa'iz, p. 33)

Relief from sciatica pain

Dear Islamic brothers! سُبْحَانَ اللّٰه There are a number of instances of prayers being answered in the company of devotees of Rasūl by the blessing of travelling with the Madanī Qāfilahs of Dawat-e-Islami, a global & non-political religious movement of the Quran and Sunnah. Here is an account of an Islamic brother in this regard: Our Madanī Qāfilah went to Thatta city. One of the participants had severe sciatica pain. He used to writhe in pain like a fish out of water. One night he couldn't sleep due to severe pain. On the last day the Amīr of Qāfilah said: 'Let's all pray for him together', so we began to pray.

The Islamic brother said that he felt reduction in pain even during the prayer and surprisingly the sciatica pain completely vanished after a short while, سُبْحَانَ اللّٰه. Many years have passed, he has not felt the same pain again since he was relieved of it during the Madanī Qāfilah. سُبْحَانَ اللّٰه At present, he is responsible for Madanī Qāfilahs in his area.

Gar ho 'irqun-nisā, yā 'ārizah koī sā

Pāo gey sihhatayn, Qāfilay mayn chalo

Dūr bīmāriyān, aur parayshāniyān

Āun gī bas chal paṛayn, Qāfilay mayn chalo

If you have sciatica severe, or have illness any other

You will get cured brother, travel with Madanī Qāfilah

Illnesses will be cured and adversities will be removed

Come and see for yourself, travel with Madanī Qāfilah

صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْب ﷺ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! Did you see! An Islamic brother was relieved of the lethal illness of sciatica by the blessing of a Madanī Qāfilah. Sciatica is an illness that causes extreme pain extending from the hip joint down to the ankle and it continues for years.

Two spiritual remedies for sciatica

1. Place your hand on the painful area, recite Sūrah Al-Fātiḥah once and the following phrase اَللّٰهُمَّ أَذْهِبْ عَنِّيْ سُوءَ مَا أَجِدُ (Yā Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ relieve me of this illness) three times (with Ṣalāt-'Alan-Nabī once before and after it) and then blow on the area of the pain. If you want to do it for someone else, then say ـهٗ (him) instead of عَنِّيْ (me). This is to be done until the illness is cured.
2. Reciting يَا مُحَيِّيَ seven times and blowing on oneself will cure wind problems, back and stomach pains, sciatica or any other pain اِنْ شَاءَ اللّٰه (This is to be done until the pain is cured).

Fourteen points regarding acts that invalidate fast

1. Eating, drinking or having intercourse will result in the invalidation of the fast provided one was aware that he was fasting. (Rad-ul-Muḥtār, pp. 365, vol. 3)
2. Smoking a Huqqah, cigar, cigarette or cheroot etc. will also invalidate the fast even if one assumes that the smoke has not reached the throat. (Bahār-e-Sharī'at, pp. 117, part 5)
3. Chewing Pān (betel) or tobacco will also invalidate the fast even if one spits constantly because its tiny particles will definitely reach the throat. (ibid)
4. If a fasting person puts something soluble like sugar etc. in his mouth and then swallows his saliva, his fast will become invalid. (ibid)
5. 
   If something equal to the size of a chick-pea or larger was stuck between the teeth of a fasting person and he swallowed it, or if it was smaller than a chick-pea but he took it out from the mouth and then put it back in and swallowed it, his fast will become invalid in both the cases. (Durr-e-Mukhtār, pp. 394, vol. 3)

6.      If gums bleed and blood goes down the throat and its taste is also felt (regardless of whether or not the amount of blood is equal to, more than or less than the saliva) the fast will become invalid in this case, but if the amount of blood is less than saliva and the taste of blood is not felt either, the fast will not become invalid. (Durr-e-Mukhtār Rad-dul-Muḥtār, pp. 368, vol. 3)

7.      Despite being aware that he was fasting, if a fasting person inserts a laxative (a medicine) into the anal orifice or inhales medicine through nostrils, his fast will become invalid. (Fatāwā 'Ālamgīrī, pp. 204, vol. 1)

8.      If water went down the throat unintentionally whilst rinsing the mouth, or if one sniffed water through nose and it reached the brain then the fast will become invalid. However, if it happens in forgetfulness (when one was unaware that he was fasting) fast will not be invalid even if he does it deliberately. Likewise, if someone throws something towards the fasting person and it goes down the throat, his fast will become invalid. (Al-Jauhara-tun-Nayyarah, pp. 178, vol. 1)

9.      Drinking or eating something whilst asleep will result in the invalidation of the fast. Similarly, if the mouth of a fasting person was open and a drop of water or a flake of snow goes down his throat his fast will become invalid. (Al-Jauhara-tun-Nayyarah, pp. 178, vol. 1)

10. Swallowing another person's saliva or putting one's own saliva onto one's palm and then swallowing it will invalidate the fast. (Fatāwā 'Ālamgīrī, pp. 203, vol. 1)

11.  Swallowing the saliva or phlegm that is already in the mouth does not invalidate the fast, spitting the saliva every now and then is not necessary.

12.  If one put a coloured string into his mouth, which changes the colour of the saliva and then he swallowed that coloured saliva, his fast would become invalid. (Fatāwā 'Ālamgīrī, pp. 203, vol. 1)

13.  Swallowing one or two drops of tear will not invalidate the fast, but swallowing many drops whose saltiness is felt in the whole mouth will result in the invalidation of the fast. The same ruling applies to sweat. (Fatāwā 'Ālamgīrī, pp. 203, vol. 1)

14. During defecation (i.e. relieving oneself), if the anal orifice appears out, one must dry it properly with a piece of cloth etc. before standing up so that there remains no wetness. If he stands up with drops of water on the anus, causing the water to be absorbed into the body, the fast will become invalid. This is the reason why the respected Islamic jurists رَحِمَهُمُ اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى have advised the fasting persons to avoid breathing whilst washing the anus [after defecation]. (Fatāwā 'Ālamgīrī, pp. 204, vol. 1)