{"id":21693,"date":"2025-06-25T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:31:09","slug":"the-gauge-to-determine-a-persons-deeni-progress-according-to-the-sahaabah-radhiyallahu-anhum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=21693","title":{"rendered":"The Gauge to Determine a Person\u2019s Deeni Progress According to the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whenever a messenger would come to Hazrat \u2018Umar Farooq (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) from any of his governors, then he would ask the messenger regarding the governor\u2019s well-being and condition. However, when enquiring about the governor\u2019s condition, the main purpose of Hazrat \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) was to find out about the governor\u2019s Deeni condition and well-being, not just his physical health and well-being, as is customary today when people meet and enquire about other people\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once, when a messenger met Hazrat \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and he enquired from him regarding his governor\u2019s condition, the messenger responded saying, \u201cWhat goodness can there be in him, when I had seen two different types of dishes on his dastarkhaan at one time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In other words, it was as though the messenger was indicating towards the fact that the lifestyle upon which Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) left the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) was the actual gauge and benchmark to determine one\u2019s goodness and progress\u00a0according to the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Malfoozaat Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Ilyaas [rahmatullahi \u2018alaih] pg. 115)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=16275\">Ihyaauddeen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sayings-of-the-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693","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=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21695,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions\/21695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}