Whoever will keep the fasts of Ramzan with Iman and Ihtisab, all his previous sins will be forgiven.’’(Bukhari)...........
(Muffakir e Islam Faisal Award winner Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi Rahimullah writes .........(In Biography of Maulana Ilyas)
Among the main distinctive qualities of maulana Muhammad Ilyas were
iman and ihtisab. what these terms denote,briefly,is that one performed an act
with fullest faith in god as the Supreme Being,the Knower and Creator of all things,and
in confident expectation of the reward and recompense promised on it.
It is stated in the
Traditions.
Whoever will keep the fasts of Ramzan with Iman and Ihtisab, all
his previous sins will be forgiven.’’(Bukhari)
Whoever will keep vigil
during Shab-i-Qadr (The Night of power) with Imam and Ihtisab,all his previous
sins will be forgiven.’’(Bukhari)
It is related by Abdullah bin Amr bin el-Aas that the Apostle of
God said; “there are forty things,the foremost among which is that a person
gave his goat to someone to help himself with its milk and to return it(when it
became day).whoever will do any of these things in the hope of earning the
Divine reward and faith in and affirmation of the promise of the Lord on it the
Lord will let him enter paradise.’’(Bukhari)
Maulana Ilyas attached the greatest importance these attributes of
faith and did his best to revive the spirit of iman
and
ihtisab in the Millat e Muslimah.
