{"id":11870,"date":"2015-11-16T04:43:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2015-11-16T04:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T04:43:49","slug":"guidance-through-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=11870","title":{"rendered":"Guidance through Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was once a fire-worshipper who noticed his son eating during the month of Ramadhaan in the presence of the Muslims. He was infuriated and reprimanded his son, \u201cHow could you destroy the sanctity of the Muslims during the month of Ramadhaan?\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">After his death, a scholar from the neighbourhood saw him in a dream enjoying from the bounties of <em>Jannat<\/em>. He was quite surprised and asked: \u201cWere you not a fire-worshipper?\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man replied: \u201cYes, I was. However, as I was about to pass away Allah Ta`ala granted me the good fortune of accepting Islam due to the respect I showed for the month of <em>Ramadhaan<\/em>.\u201d (Nuzhat-ul-Majaalis, p. 201)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lesson: Respect for the distinguishing features and symbols of Islam draws Allah Ta`ala\u2019s special mercy and guidance.<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","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=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}