Once Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) was seated with the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) when he said: \u201cA man from the people of Jannah will appear before you now.\u201d Just then a man from the Ansaar came with his beard dripping of his left-over wudhu water. The same happened for three days consecutively.<\/p>\n
When Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) left, \u2018Abdullah bin \u2018Amr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhuma) followed this Ansaari man and said to him: \u201cI had an argument with my father and vowed not to go home for three days. Will you allow me to spend these three days at your place?\u201d The man agreed to this. \u2018Abdullah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) says that he spent those three nights with him (trying to ascertain what act of worship earned him this glad tiding) but he did not find him carrying out any extra acts of worship apart from the fact that he only heard him speaking good.<\/p>\n
After the three nights passed, \u2018Abdullah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) said to him: \u201cO servant of Allah! I did not have any problem with my father. Rather the only reason for me spending these nights with you was to discover your special act of worship which has earned you the glad tiding I heard from Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). However, I haven\u2019t seen you do any extra actions. Now please tell me what has taken you to such a position?\u201d The man replied: \u201cI don\u2019t do anything other than what you have seen.\u201d When \u2018Abdullah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) left, he called him back and said: \u201cThe only thing extra is that I do not harbour any ill-feelings in my heart for any believer and I am not jealous of anyone for the good that Allah Ta\u2018ala blesses him with.\u201d \u2018Abdullah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) said: \u201cThis is the reason for you reaching this position and this is the thing that we are unable to do.\u201d (Musnad Ahmad #12697)<\/p>\n
Lesson:<\/strong> Most of our miseries today are linked to the ill-feelings we harbour for others. \u201cWhy does he have that kind of a car or house and I don\u2019t have the same? Why are his children so bright but my children are not?\u201d We need to remember that \u201cwhen we harbour<\/em> ill-feelings, happiness docks<\/em>elsewhere\u201d. This is such a grave sin that even on auspicious occasions, a person who harbours ill-feelings is not forgiven by Allah Ta\u2018ala. On the other hand, the one who imitates the people of Jannah in keeping his heart clean will be from the people of Jannah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","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=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11992,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions\/11992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}