The Devotion of Life — Page 258
258 ‘Tehrik’ for Devotion of Life on the Death of Hadrat Mir Muhammad Ishaq Sahib ra On the night of 16 th March 1944 the heartbreaking incident of the death of Hadrat Mir Muhammad Ishaq ra took place. After Maghrib and Isha prayer, Hadrat Musleh Maud ra delivered an emotional speech in which he said: “When the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) passed away, a kind of death came over his Companions. However, at the time of Hadrat Abu Bakr’s ra passing away those followers who had not seen the Holy Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and had learned Islam from Hadrat Abu Bakr ra were deeply saddened at his death, feeling the same grief that the Companions of the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) had felt at his passing away. Similarly, one after the other, with time, people passed away. When they all passed away, then a time came when for the world of Islam the grief of the death of Hassan Basri ra or Junaid Baghdadi ra was the same as the grief felt on the passing away of the Holy Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) by his Companions. This feeling was borne from the fact that people like Hassan Basri ra and Junaid Baghdadi ra were rarely born among Muslims. If the entire Ummah was like Hassan Basri ra or Junaid Baghdadi ra , then the pain and the distress that was felt at the death of these esteemed elders would not have been so intense. Unfortunately, most people know how to weep, they also know how to express grief, but most of them do not know how to dedicate their lives and to work for God. This is the reason the world is engulfed in pain and grief. If all