{"id":12013,"date":"2015-11-17T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=12013"},"modified":"2016-10-25T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T05:02:09","slug":"securing-ones-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=12013","title":{"rendered":"Securing ones Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ismaa\u2018eel bin Ahmad was the leader of Samarqand. Once, while sitting in the courtroom and listening to the cases that were being presented before him, the great scholar of hadeeth, Muhammad bin Nasr Marwazi (rahimahullah) entered. As a mark of respect, he stood up. When he left the courtroom, his brother Ishaaq reproached him for standing up for one of his subjects. Ismaa\u2018eel says: \u201cThat night when I retired to bed, I saw Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) in a dream. My brother and I were together and Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) came close to me and held my hand saying: \u2018Your rule and the rule of your children will continue due to the respect you showed to Muhammad bin Nasr, and the rule of Ishaaq and his children will come to an end due to him disregarding Muhammad bin Nasr\u2019.\u201d (Tareekh Ibni \u2018Asaakir vol. 56, pg. 115 &amp; Al-Bidaayah wan Nihaayah vol. 11, pg. 176)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lesson:<\/strong> Showing respect to the \u2018Ulama \u2013 the heirs of the Ambiyaa\u2019 is not only a means of safeguarding one\u2019s deen, rather it brings blessings and continuity to one\u2019s material endeavours as well. In the same vein, disregarding and disrespecting the people of knowledge and the friends of Allah Ta\u2018ala not only ruins ones deen and dunya, it is also tantamount to waging war with Allah Ta\u2018ala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12013","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\/12013","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=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}