One person in Masjid e Nabawi proceeded to the front of Rawdhah Mubarak[1] and supplicated thus, “O Allah, if You reform me; make me a pious and obedient servant, and Allahwala; remove me from the clutches of Nafs and Shaytaan and grant me a life of obedience to You, then Your Nabi who is resting here will become pleased and Your enemy i.e. Shaytaan will become sad. However, if You do not reform me and Nafs and Shaytaan destroys me, then Your Nabi will become sad because I am his Ummati (follower) and Your enemy i.e. Shaytaan will become pleased. Therefore, O Allah! You decide. Do you wish to correct and reform thus making Your Nabi pleased and Your enemy displeased; or do You wish to destroy me thus saddening Your Nabi and pleasing Your enemy?“ Who is making this dua? This is not any Alim (scholar). He is but a lowly villager, an uneducated Arab, simple person. However, Allah Ta’ala has placed this subject matter in his heart. At times, Allah Ta’ala places such subject matters in the hearts of those who are not scholars that even the scholars are wonderstruck. Man must make some effort. There remains only one hope, and that is of crying. This is also being snatched away from us. We had already left our zour (strength), now we are leaving our zari (crying). This means we had already abandoned practice. We have laid down our arms in front of Nafs and Shaytaan. We had abandoned using our strength. One road remained of zari i.e. crying which we have also left. What will be our condition?