Shaikh Abur Rabee\u2019 (Rahmatullahi Alayh) relates: I had often heard of a very pious lady named Fiddhah who lived in a village. I do not visit ladies, but when I heard many miraculous stories about her, I thought of going to her village and paying her a visit. People told me that she had a she goat that yielded both milk and honey. I was amazed to hear this, so I bought myself a new bowl and went to her house. I said to her: \u201cI heard about your she goat that gives both milk and honey and I wish to have a share of its benefits.\u201d She gave the she goat over to me and I milked it. I saw milk and honey coming out of its teats. We drank the milk and consumed the honey. When I asked her how she had come to possess that she goat, she narrated to me an amazing story.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThere was a time when we were very poor and we possessed nothing except a she goat, whose milk was our only source of subsistence. When Eidul Adha came, my husband said to me: \u201cWe own nothing except this she goat, let us sacrifice it in the name of Allah.\u201d I replied: \u201cWe have nothing but its milk to live on. Allah Ta\u2019ala has not made it incumbent upon us to sacrifice an animal in such circumstances. Must we sacrifice it even then?\u201d My husband gave in to my desire and we postponed our sacrifice till the next Eidul Adha. As chance would have it, we had a guest on that very day and I said to my husband: \u201cWe have been commanded to entertain our guests and we have nothing but this she goat. Let us slaughter it and cook the meat for our guest.\u201d When my husband prepared to slaughter it I said to him: \u201cIt would be better if you slaughter it outside the house, behind the wall, lest our children cry on seeing it slaughtered.\u201d He went outside with the goat and as soon as he was gone, I saw this she goat standing on the wall. As it bore a striking resemblance with our she goat, I thought it was our very goat which had broken loose from my husband\u2019s grip. When I went outside, to my astonishment I saw that he had already slaughtered our goat and had begun skinning it. I said to him: \u201cHow strange! Another she goat resembling our own has come into our home!\u201d When I told him the whole story he said: \u201cIt is likely that Allah Ta\u2019ala has granted us a good recompense for sacrificing our she goat on account of our guest.\u201d So this is the she goat which yields both milk and honey and it is all due to our entertaining our guest. This lady then advised her children: \u201cMy children, this goat feeds on what grows in the heart. As long as your hearts continue to be noble and un-tarnished by evil, its milk will be good. But, as soon as your hearts become corrupted, its milk will also turn bad. Guard your hearts against evil, everything will be of benefit to you.\u201d (Fazaaile Sadaqaat, pg. 695)<\/p>\n
Lesson<\/strong>: A clean heart attracts Allah Ta\u2019ala\u2019s special mercy and attention and makes a person beloved in the sight of Allah Ta\u2019ala, as well as the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/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-11904","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\/11904","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=11904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}