MASTER AND SLAVE

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Last Updated: Saturday, 27 December 2014 11:36

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said "He who has taught someone even one aayat of the Qur'aan, has become the master of that student.”
Commenting on this Hadith, Hadhrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (rahmatullah alayh) said: "The student becomes the slave and the Ustaadh his master. The rank of the Ustaadh is extremely lofty. As far as possible the student and mureed should obey the Ustaadh and Shaikh and keep them happy. They lead the student/mureed out of darkness into light, and they deliver him to the True Beloved, Allah Ta'ala."
A student who sets himself up as an adversary of his Ustaadh or vies with him in any way whatsoever is morally and spiritually doomed. He comes within the purview of Allah's Wrath. All spiritual avenues are blocked on him. His flimsy and superficial knowledge is shorn of barkat. His heart becomes clouded with spiritual pollution and he retrogresses in every sphere.