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Chapter Nineand its false desires, it turned its back on the Creator. Be not likethose who forgot Allah u and He made them forget their own souls. Thegates of evil creaked open wide and corruption descended intothe cities, towns, homes, and even religious centers [schools] anddarkness enveloped everything.These circumstances made Ĥađrat restless. As an inheritor ofthe most pure inheritance [the nisba of Allah u] and a keeperof the most important trust [the purity and nisba of his elders]his restlessness was only expected. He saw the umma fulfillingthe basic obligations of Dīn but being deprived of the spirit,fruit, and spiritual benefits of these obligations and good deeds.He understood that the root cause for this downfall was ourindifference to the dhikr of Allah u, which was a consequenceof abandonment of the khanqā system and our ignorance towardstaśawwuf [one of the main pillars of the Dīn of Allah u]. Onlythis pillar of Dīn rectifies the inner [spiritual] and outer [physical],and imbues the qualities of sincerity, righteousness, sacrifice andcompassion, benevolence, love for the creation, lack of pretension,cheerfulness, contentment and austerity, dependence on Allah uand other such beautiful traits while cleaning out jealousy, hatred,begrudgement, and other such evil traits. This is the greatesttragedy which this umma continues to suffer today.It is important to remember that Ĥađrat saw the spiritualhubbub of the khanqās before the time of the partition. Memoriesof those scenes still bring tears to his eyes and when he talks aboutthem he is overcome by a certain state. He remembers how thehearts were illuminated, purification of the heart was revived, andlives were changed in these khanqās. All these memories madeĤađrat restless. Finally, the need and importance of these khanqāsestablished themselves so strongly in his heart that he made it hismission in life to establish a khanqā everywhere. He understoodthat until the umma illuminates its heart with the dhikr of Allahu and reconnects with Allah u the umma cannot bear the fruitof its good deeds. This is especially important for the scholars whoare busy in the work of Allah u i.e. until they put their minds to83