{"id":6799,"date":"2014-10-20T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2014-10-20T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:40:40","slug":"without-effort-a-person-cannot-be-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"Without effort a person cannot be successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/29ae4d6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"29ae4d6\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6800\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/29ae4d6.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 200px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/29ae4d6.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/29ae4d6-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) once addressed some associates and said:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My beloved friends, make an effort to acquire the friendship of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala. A poet exclaims: <em>The one who wishes to acquire any lofty position has to burn the midnight oil.<\/em>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned that once a person spent some time in the company of Hazrat Moulana Abdul Qaadir Raipuri (Rahmatullahi Alaihi). He engaged in zikr and spiritual exercises, etc. One day he said to Hazrat Raipuri, &ldquo;I am carrying out my zikr, etc., but I do not feel the zikr having any effect on me as yet.&rdquo; Hearing this, Hazrat Raipuri replied, &ldquo;Continue to strive.&nbsp; Piety and acceptance is not a type of medicine that I can administer to you. You will have to continue striving to acquire it.&rdquo; (Malfoozaate Hazrat Shaikh 1\/108)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) once addressed some associates and said: &quot;My beloved friends, make an effort to acquire the friendship of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala. A poet exclaims: The one who wishes to acquire any lofty position has to burn the midnight oil.&quot; Thereafter Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned that once &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[345,410],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-shaikh","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}