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Sayyiduna Dawood Taa`ee رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه observed fasts for forty years. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه was so sincere that he did not let even his own family members know about it. While going to work, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would take his lunch with him and would donate it to someone on the way. Having returned home after Maghrib, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would eat his dinner.
(Ma’dan-e-Akhlaaq, part 1, pp. 182)
The Greatest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated, ‘If anyone among you performs a deed in a strong rock that has neither any door nor skylight [i.e. a small window in a roof], his deed will still become known.’
(Musnad Imam Ahmad, vol. 4, pp. 57, Hadees 11230)
Commenting on the above Hadees, a renowned commentator, a great thinker of the Ummah, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الْـحَـنَّانْ has stated, ‘Why do you ruin your deeds by ostentation! Perform deeds with sincerity and in privacy; Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will make people aware of your deeds, causing them to consider you pious from the bottom of their heart. This is very tried and trusted. Some people offer Salat-ut-Tahajjud in privacy but others begin to call them the performers of Salat-ut-Tahajjud. The thing is, the Noor [spiritual light] of every virtuous deed including Salat-ut-Tahajjud appears on the face of the
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