{"id":15313,"date":"2017-07-03T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=15313"},"modified":"2024-10-12T07:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T05:27:57","slug":"the-blessed-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=15313","title":{"rendered":"The Blessed Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Abu Muslim Al-Khawlaani

[rahimahullah] #3)<\/em><\/p>\n

On one occasion, the wife of Abu Muslim Al-Khawlaani (rahimahullah) said to him, \u201cO Abu Muslim! We do not have any flour!\u201d Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) asked her, \u201cDo you have any money?\u201d She replied, \u201cI have one dirham which we earned through selling yarn.\u201d Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) instructed, \u201cHand me the dirham and give me a sack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) thereafter proceeded to the market and stood before a man who was selling food. However, at that moment, a beggar also arrived and stood before Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) imploring, \u201cO Abu Muslim! Give me some charity!\u201d As Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) only had one dirham and there was no food at home, he turned and fled from the beggar, arriving at another food stall. The beggar, however, followed him and continued to call out to him. Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) thus fled for a third time and went to a third stall, but the beggar persistently followed him and continued to implore him for charity.<\/p>\n

Finally, viewing the beggar\u2019s persistence, he relented and gave him the dirham. Abu Muslim (rahimahullah), not wanting to take the sack home empty, filled it with sawdust and sand and proceeded home. When he reached the door of his home, he was afraid to enter as he did not have any food to give his wife. Not knowing what else to do, he knocked on the door and when his wife opened it, he gave her the bag, turned and justify.<\/p>\n

His wife, not knowing what had transpired, took the bag and opened it, finding it full of white flour! She thus formed the dough and baked the bread. After a short portion of the night had passed, Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) arrived at home and knocked on the door. When he entered, she spread the tablecloth and placed loaves of bread before him. Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) was surprised and asked, \u201cWhere did you get this bread?\u201d She replied, \u201cO Abu Muslim, from the flour that you brought.\u201d When Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) heard this, he began to eat the bread as he wept in gratitude to Allah Ta\u2018ala. (Sifatus Safwah vol. 2 pg. 371)<\/p>\n

Lessons:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Sadaqah (charity) will never decrease a person\u2019s wealth. Rather, it brings barakah (blessings).<\/p>\n

2. Every person\u2019s sustenance has been written and preordained. Hence, because it was decreed that Abu Muslim (rahimahullah) would receive the bread, even though he gave the dirham away, he still enjoyed the bread. Similarly, our sustenance, down to the last cent and morsel, has been decreed and cannot change. Hence, we cannot control the amount of wealth that we earn and enjoy. However, we can choose to earn it and spend it in a halaal manner. By doing this, we will receive the exact same wealth \u2013 but with the blessings and happiness of Allah Ta\u2018ala.<\/p>\n

3. The pious friends of Allah Ta\u2018ala have such a bond and relationship with Allah Ta\u2018ala that He always cares for them and makes divine arrangements for them.<\/p>\n

>>>Download\u00a0Musjid Poster<\/a><<<<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15313","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\/15313","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=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21190,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions\/21190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}