TheRamadanOfShaykhAl-hadithMuhammadZakariyyaKandhelviAndOurEldersByShaykhDrMuhammadIsmailMemonMadani

Ramadan of the Eldersand day because they spend the night reciting and listening to theQur’an when the children are sleeping and when they want to sleepduring the day, one child is crying from one side while another ispulling from another. Sometimes, I feel so much pity for them.May Allah u accept them all.In Mashāikh-e-Kāndhla, it is mentioned that it was ShaikhMużaffar Ĥussain’s routine to spend the whole night in worship,and that he did not sleep for a second or take a short rest on the bed.He cried the whole night for fear of the Hereafter.All this was mentioned tangentially. My father preferred to prayśalāt in its beginning time, but since Fajr was prayed near sunriseeverywhere in Sahāranpūr, he prayed at that time also. In the timeof my shaikh [Ĥađrat Sahāranpūrī] Fajr was prayed when the sunwas about to rise throughout the year and in Ramadan ten to fifteenminutes before that. It was my father’s routine to rest after Fajr.After two to three hours of sleep, he went to teach in the school. Healso tutored lessons to certain students who stayed in the school inRamadan and were close to my father and continued this until ifţār.He never recited the Qur’an to or with anyone throughout the day.If he had any free time during the day, he recited Qur’an loudly.It has also been mentioned previously that while in Gangoh, hecalled out the adhān himself. His habit was to say it loudly and toprolong it as much as possible. He often said, “The reason I alwayscalled out the adhān was so people could have time to eat theirifţār and arrive in time for śalāt and so that the adhān reaches as faras possible. In my adhān, a person can easily eat ifţār, walk fromhome and get the opening takbīr behind Quţb-e-‘Ālam (Pole of theUniverse) [Shaikh Rashīd Aĥmad Gangohī].”Shaikh Rashīd Aĥmad Gangohī periodically synced his watchwith the sun [as it reached its zenith]. My father would say, “Iwould get on the roof of the khanqā shortly before Maghrib,break off some grass, chew them for ifţār and then call out a longadhān, slow and easy.” The incidents about my father’s Ramadanin Mīrat, Nawāb Walī Masjid, Dehli and Bahit have already beenmentioned.165