Becoming an Experienced Elder within hours: It takes man years to get younger but he can get elder very quickly using his time perfectly
(Preacher of Islam Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Kaleem Siddiqui, Phalat)
Hazrat Maulana is the great preacher of Islam as has entered around five hundred thousand people into Islam. He is writer of a precious book “Naseem e Hidayat Key Jhonkey”
After spending two consecutive days in preaching, I requested my friends that only preaching may not give desired results. We need to arrange a gathering with those people who inspire with our invitation to convince them to start preaching others after our return from this city. They convinced a volunteer to arrange a gathering at his home. This pious main also arranged for dinner for all participants. We reached there after Salat Isha. One of our active friend brought a native American trader and introduced him as he came from Tucson city. He further added that trader was atheist. It was very hard task due to shortage of time as we had to sketch our future plan for that city and I had return flight in the morning. It was a bit unpleasant for me as more time is required to convince an atheist as compared to one who follows a religion. We decided to take dinner first so that we can start talks with him during the dining. Many of my friends tried to convince him to accept the existence of Allah but all efforts were in vain. I always consider myself a poor guy with empty hands in the matter of preaching but the only asset I have is the relation with my Murshid.
It was a difficult situation as I could not let that guy to go without being convinced and on other hand our internal consultation for which that sitting was arranged also important. The I started begging to Allah Almighty. Suddenly I found a clue that Allah is the source of all kind of guidance so it’s better to refer him towards Allah. So started my arguments with him in words that do you want us to accept your view that there is no Allah and creation of mankind was a self-procedure and accept our defeat or whether he wants to know the fact. He replied that if we convince him about existence of Allah then he may accept Islam at the same moment despite the fact he is Christian by family.
Then I recommended him to do a little thing. I asked him to wake up in the morning, fresh your mouth and turn to your Allah and request Him for three times in these words “O Lord! If you exist and running this mankind then satisfy me with your existence”. Repeat this for ten days. Then we exchanged each other numbers. That trader accepted my advice.
Next morning when we were preparing for airport, I received the call of our friend who brought that trader to us. He told me that guy had visited him around at 8 am telling him that he want to turn to Islam. That trader told him that he had waked up early in the morning at 5 am, taken the bath, closed my eyes and begged to the Lord of all universes that if He does exist then calm my heart down. Then suddenly he felt his heart become colder and felt as someone turn the light on in the dark.
Listening to this, I thanked to Allah Almighty and was more convinced that source of guidance is only Allah. Allah Almighty talked to His beloved Holy Prophet ﷺ إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ ۚ. Therefore the preacher should try to connect the person with Allah Almighty instead of using his own forces, particularly when the preacher finds his arguments useless in while convincing the other person. Therefore convince the person invited to seek guidance from Allah Almighty directly. This is my personal experience that whenever preacher finds his efforts useless and refers the person invited towards Allah Himself then person invited get guidance from Him. Would that we understand this secret of preaching.
