HOTLINE
There is a direct telephone link between the heads of countries.
Nobody can listen in to their conversation. The Heads (Presidents and Prime Ministers) do not need an operator to connect their phone-call. They can talk directly on their own special telephone set without anyone connecting them in between. Such a telephone line is called a HOTLINE.
Do you know that you too have a hotline with the Head of the world: Allah. You can talk directly with the Greatest King. We do not need an operator, a minister or a priest to connect you with HIM.
How lucky we all are! Just raise your hands in supplication or ‘Dua’, and you can talk directly to Allah. Just offer salat, and you are in direct contact with Him. Just whisper silently ‘Allah’ or just call out to Him even without a whisper silently in your heart, and you are on the hotline. He can hear you when you even remember Him or talk to Him at anytime of the day or night, at any place on the road, at home, indoors or outdoors, while you may be standing, walking, sitting or lying down.
Suppose you are standing at the bus-stand, waiting for a bus on a hot day. You silently say a few words in your heart to Allah and ask for his help, asking Him to send a bus soon. The other people waiting at the bus-stop do not hear you but Allah hears you. You may be surprised to see a bus coming round the corner. However, if it does not come, it only means that Allah has heard your call but wants to test you or has reserved something better for you. How easy, how convenient to contact the Greatest Power.
How happy you would feel if you could directly contact the Prime Minister anytime, anywhere silently and secretly! That is not possible. How happy you should be to contact someone greater and more powerful than the Prime Minister. No appointments, no delays, no officers, ministers or priests or conference needed to contact our Loving King and Master. You have a hotline, your direct contact-line with Allah. If you ask a man, a geni, a priest, a minister, a Peer-Baba, a Fakir, a saint, an officer or a stone to link you with Allah, it is wrong. It is ‘Shirk’ or polytheism because it means we are attaching partners to Allah. How? When we ask others to connect us with Allah, we think that these others have special powers and are powerful. But, only Allah is Powerful and all men are equal and servants of Allah. But, by thinking that they are powerful, we take them as partners to Allah. And that is wrong and a big sin.
So, everybody, use your hotline freely and independently. Have a direct contact and talk with Allah. Now, say ‘Allah’ slowly. Have you done so? Now, again stop reading and say something to Him silently and secretly in your heart. Yes, you are all on hotline.
Listen to this story. Long ago, there lived a just and good king in Sudan in Africa. He was Yusuf Bin Tashfeen. He wore simple, rough clothes and lived simply. Because of his noble qualities, he soon became the king of Spain in Europe. Let us see how he reached Spain for the first time.
One day, he set out with his army in many ships to cross the sea to help the Muslims of Spain. As he and his men sailed slowly on the waves, suddenly a violent storm rose in the sea. His ships were tossed wildly up and down.
The good king Yusuf Bin Tashfeen raised his hands and prayed to Allah tearfully in these words, “O Allah! If I'
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