{"id":12143,"date":"2015-11-26T04:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T04:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2018-02-05T05:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:06:01","slug":"without-effort-a-person-cannot-be-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"Without Effort a Person cannot be Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &#8216;alaih) once addressed some associates and said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My beloved friends, make an effort to acquire the friendship of Allah Ta&#8217;ala. A poet exclaims: <em>The one who wishes to acquire any lofty position has to burn the midnight oil.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thereafter Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &#8216;alaih) mentioned that once a person spent some time in the company of Hazrat Moulana Abdul Qaadir Raipuri (rahmatullahi &#8216;alaih). He engaged in zikr and spiritual exercises, etc. One day he said to Hazrat Raipuri, \u201cI am carrying out my zikr, etc., but I do not feel the zikr having any effect on me as yet.\u201d Hearing this, Hazrat Raipuri replied, \u201cContinue to strive.\u00a0 Piety and acceptance is not a type of medicine that I can administer to you. You will have to continue striving to acquire it.\u201d (Malfoozaate Hazrat Shaikh 1\/108)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6799\">Ihyaauddeen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sayings-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}