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the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀ‘Abd al-Rahīm Raipūrī of wishing to spend Ramadan with him. Inresponse, he affectionately wrote back that the month of Ramadanis not for meeting or travel. Stay where you are and remember Allahu. Then, I asked him to at least allow me to come for the last tendays. I finally found his reply to this letter in my papers which Ireproduced in Āp Bītī [part 4] that, ‘the same reason for not comingin the beginning of Ramadan applies to the end but you and yourfather are lofty people, what can a person like myself say to you. Iam only replying to this letter in this blessed month because it isyour letter. As far as dhikr is concerned, continue whatever dhikrand ashgāl Shaikh has prescribed for you.’ This letter is narrated infull in Āp Bītī, but I remember my father saying to me, “Don’t go;Ĥađrat’s focus will be diverted because of you and he will alwaysbe concerned for your food and drink.” I have narrated the wholeincident in detail in Āp Bītī.Devotions of the Shaikh of Hind, Maĥmūd al-Ĥasan 66There is some mention of Shaikh al-Hind’s devotion in Fađā’il-e-Ramađān. Shaikh Ĥusain Aĥmad Madanī writes in Asīrān-e-Mālta:Ţā’if 67 was in total chaos in the month of Ramadan. People couldnot leave their homes for food nor could any proper arrangementsbe made for tarāwīĥ in the masjid. The biggest masjid was MasjidIbn ‘Abbās. Sūrat al-Fīl [and other such suras] were recited intarāwīĥ but few people ever came. Because of the cross-fire, mostpeople prayed in their local masjids or at home. Shaikh prayed66 Maulānā Maĥmūd Ĥasan Deobandī (1851-1920) - was the first student ofDeoband. He taught all six books of hadith and other books also [on differentsubjects]. Though he wished to teach without salary Shaikh Rashīd Gangohīordered that he take one. But when Shaikh Rashīd Aĥmad passed away, he immediatelydeclined any salary and taught without pay for the rest of his life. Hewas caught by the British for his covert activities against them and was finallysent off to the island of Malta. He died two years later.67 A city southeast of Makka. These skirmishes occurred between Turkishforces and Arab Bedouins, [during World War I] the latter being incited by T.E.Lawrence [aka Lawrence of Arabia] to rise against the Ottoman Empire. Thecompanion, ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Abbās g is buried in Ţāif.130