Day: March 16, 2025

■ What’s the Difference Between Hal and Maqam?

Have you ever wonder why sometimes you feel super connected to Allah ﷻ, and other times you feel… nothing? Well, that’s because there’s a difference between Hal (حال) and Maqam (مقام).

🔹 Hal = The Spiritual Mood Swings

Hal is like that spiritual high you get when you listen to a soulful Naat or spend a night in deep Zikr. One moment, your heart is all “Ya Allah, I feel so close to You!”, and the next day, you’re distracted by dunya dramas. It comes and goes—like a guest that visits your heart but doesn’t stay.

🔹 Maqam = The Spiritual Glow Up

Maqam, on the other hand, is permanent. It’s when a spiritual quality settles into your soul and becomes part of who you are. Think of it like leveling up! At first, you struggle with patience, but over time, patience becomes your default setting—that’s Maqam!

If you get super emotional during a Bayan, and you feel like “That’s it! I’m changing my life!” (Hal). But two weeks later, you’re back to scrolling endlessly on your phone. 📱 Maqam is when that feeling sticks, and you actually start living what you felt.

Hal = Those intense “I feel so close to Allah” moments

Maqam = That spiritual consistency that stays with you

The goal is to turn your Hal into Maqam. Let those spiritual highs become your normal state. So whenever you feel spiritually boosted, hold onto it and let it shape you!

*Huzoor Nabi e Kareem ﷺ Ki Sayyeda Khadijah Se Muhabbat*

Ummul Momineen Hazrat Ayesha Siddeeqa Salamullah Alaiha Farmati Hain :- Mene Rasool Allah ﷺ Ki Kisi Zauja Par Itna Rashq Nahi Kiya Jitna Sayyeda Khadijah Salamullah Alaiha Par Kiya, Halanke Mene Unko Dekha Tak Nahi Magar Wajah Ye Thi Ke Rasool Allah ﷺ Unka Zikr Bhut Kiya Karte The Aur Jab Kabhi Bakri Zibah Karte To Uske Parche Bana Kar Sayyeda Khadijah Salamullah Alaiha Ki Dost Auraton Ko Bhej Dete Me Kabhi Aapse Yu Kehti Shayad Khadijah Ke Siwa Aur Duniya Me Koi Aurat Thodi Thi, To Aap ﷺ Farmate Khadijah Me Ye Sifatein Thi Aur Meri Aulad Unhi Ke Shikam Se Hui.

📚 *Reference* 📚
Sahih Bukhari, Kitab ul Manaqib, Jild 2, Safa 483.

grapes that he would be pardoned for the allegations and would be set free and that he would return to his old employment of serving drinks to his master. He told the other intern that he would be crucified for his deeds and birds of prey would feed on his body after his death. Joseph then asked the first prisoner to make a plea for his release as soon as he got out of the prison. But the man forgot his promise.

Then the king saw a dream over successive nights that got him concerned. His courtiers and astrologers failed to satisfy him through any plausible interpretation. At that time, one of the prisoners who had survived, remembered Joseph. He told the ruler that he could find the interpretation of his dreams if he was allowed to visit Joseph in the prison. He was permitted to do so.

He greeted Joseph and narrated the dream to him. The ruler, in his dream, had seen seven fat cows emerging from the river, followed by seven weak ones. The weak cows devoured the fat ones. He then saw seven green and healthy ears of wheat followed by seven dry ones. The dry ones ate up the green ones.

Joseph said that both the dreams had the same interpretation. The seven fat cows and the seven healthy ears consist of seven years during which the country would see high- productivity. That would be followed by seven years of famine. Unless the years of high productivity were managed wisely, the years of famine would totally destroy the kingdom. He told me ruler that it would be prudent to save for the years of famine because the famine would be wide spread.

The ruler carefully listened to the interpretation of his dreams by Joseph and he knew that it must be true. He called Joseph back to his court and restored his position with full respect. Zulaikhah, by now, had admitted her mistake.

Joseph rises to the highest status in Egypt

The ruler made Joseph the chief administrator of the country’s products. He gave Joseph his ring that testified his total authority on his behalf. Joseph was only thirty years of age at that time. He went straight to work and began implementation of methods to enhance the products. He built large graineries for

storage. He conserved resources over expenditure in preparation for the bad times he had predicted.

Brothers of Joseph in Egypt

As foretold, famine struck the land of Egypt as well as the lands arround Egypt. The news of the graineries of Egypt had already spread far and wide. People flocked to Egypt for jobs and food. Thus Egypt flourished with cheap labor even during the days of wide spread famine. This was a clear sign of the intelligence and foresight of Joseph.

Like other lands, famine visited the land of Canaan as well. Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to procure grain. When they were in the presence of Joseph in their wretched attire, they could not recognise their own brother who was wearing his royal attire and had grown into handsome manhood. But Joseph recognised them. He gave them love, affection, shelter and food but did not reveal his identity to them. He asked them about their family and they told him about his father who had lost his eyesight from crying over the loss of his beloved son. When they were leaving with grain. Joseph insisted that they had to leave behind one of them as security. They must also bring their youngest brother when they return, otherwise they would not be given additional grain. They had no choice and one of them had to stay in Egypt.

Joseph s brothers returned to Egypt with their youngest brother Benjamin who was his sibling from the same mother. They brought the price of the previous cargo and gifts from their old and ailing father. The reminiscence of his childhood and separation from his beloved parents made Joseph cry. He revealed his identity to his brothers and sent them back laden. with gifts and grain. He invited them to come and live in Egypt because the famine was to last for a few years.

They returned to Egypt with their parents as well as other members of their clan. They bowed to him as subjects do before the king. This indeed was the true interpretation of the dream that Joseph had had as a child. Although his brothers had reacted to that dream with such cruelty, yet Joseph paid them

back with sympathy, love and forgiveness.

The death of Jacob

Jacob lived for seventeen years in Egypt before his death. He called his sons at his deathbed and advised them on matters of their mutual benefit and wished that upon his death his body should be carried back to Canaan for burial near his forefathers. His wishes were carried out with royal ceremonials.

The death of Joseph

Joseph lived for one hundred and ten years. He was buried in Egypt according to the rituals of the land and when Moses finally took the children of Israel out of Egypt, he took me coffin of Joseph to Canaan, to be buried alongside his ancestors.

References: The Qur’an: Sura Yusuf and Mo’min.

Announcement of Sura Baraat

*The pilgrims at the annual pilgrimage to Mecca were for the most part heathens, who mingled idolatrous practi-ces with the holy rites, and the Prophet had hitherto abstained from being present at these ceremonies, and contented himself with the Lesser Pilgrimage or Umra as in previous years. The sacred season of the year 9 A.H. was now drawing near. By this time the Prophet had. received a revelation forbidding the unrighteous to perform the pilgrimage after this year, as mentioned in the opening verses of Sura IX of the Quran. The Prophet therefore deputed Abubakr to proceed on pilgrimage to Mecca, in order to promulgate the revelation to the Pilgrims. Three hundred Muslims accompanied Abu- bakr and twenty camels were given to him to be sacrificed. on behalf of the Prophet.

Shortly after the departure of Abubakr, the Prophet received Command from God, and in obedience to the Command, he despatched Ali’ on his swiftest camel, the Al-Ghadzba, with orders to overtake the caravan and to take back the book (Verses of Sura IX) from Abubakr. and to proceed himself with it to announce it to the pilgrims at Mecca.

Ali overtook the caravan at Araj, and taking the book from Abubakr proceeded to Mecca. Abubakr returned. dejected to Medina and asked the Prophet whether he being replaced by Ali for conveying the revelation to the people of Mecca was based on any Command of God!

The Prophet answered that he had a revelation from God to the effect, that, “I should not depute anyone for this proclamation except myself or someone from me. Ali is from me and I am from him. He is my Brother,

1 Tirmizhi; Ahmad Hanbal; Tabari; A’lamm-al-wara; Tafsir Mo’alim-al-Tanzil; Abul Fida.
my Vicegerent, the Executor of my will, and he is my Successor and performs all those duties that devolve on me.”

According to Hishami the Prophet answered that he had a revelation to the effect that none should deliver the revelation to the people but he himself or a man of his family, or (according to Tirmizhi and Nasai) that none should deliver it to the people but he himself or Ali.

Reaching Mecca, Ali read aloud, towards the close of the Pilgrimage, on the great Day of Sacrifice, to the vast concourse of the pilgrims, the recitation of the passage of the Quran. Having finished it, he continued: “I have been ordered to explain to you, (1) that no one shall hence forward make the circuits of the Holy House in a state of nakedness, (2) that any treaty, made by anyone with the Prophet, shall remain in force till its termination, that four months of liberty are allowed to all, after which the obligation devolving on the Prophet will cease, (3) that no unbeliever will enter Paradise, (4) that the unrighteous. must not come on Pilgrimage after this year.