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the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀwho don’t pray at all. Mājid Lāhorī [a poet] compares the old timeswith the modern one in two lines. First, the old times,They pray Fajr, then recite Qur’anAnd the modern times,They wake up at nine in the morning and read Dawn 80It is important for those who care for their Hereafter to striveto change the environment of their gatherings and homes. A goodenvironment is the key to becoming regular and helping friendsand family become regular in their śalāt and fasting.As Muftī Shafī‘ said, people left after tarāwīĥ for another masjidand the khanqā masjid became empty. This proves that Ĥakīm al-Umma permitted calling people to congregate for voluntary śalātas not being undesirable [karāha]. Otherwise he would never haveallowed them to pray the voluntary śalāt, let alone allowed it inanother masjid.Devotions of al-Ĥāj Shaikh Ĥusain Aĥmad MadanīShaikh ‘Abd al-Ĥamīd A‘żamī wrote a book on the Ramadan[1365/July, 1946] of Ĥađrat Madanī in Silhat [Bangladesh] whichI have condensed below. Though this subject has been prolonged,the fact is that we do not find as much detail of the Ramadan ofany of our elders as we do of Ĥađrat Madanī. It is for this reasonthat I wished to narrate at least some of Ĥađrat Madanī’s Ramadan. He writes:Ĥađrat stayed at Commissioner ‘Abd al-Sattār’s residence andprayed all five śalāt in a beautiful grand masjid about a quarter of amile [440 yards] from the house. All the visitors and devotees cameto this masjid from all over to spend the month of Ramadan withĤađrat. Since Ĥađrat spent the whole month in i‘tikāf, he made theintention to stay for more than fifteen days [iqāma] [thus, prayingfull śalāt-translator] and was the imam for all the śalāts. After Ẓuhr,he blew on the dozens of bottles placed around the imam’s placeand then removed the notes that collected under the prayer rug80 A daily English newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan.144