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a scholar wrote a booklet about the subtle matters of showing off, and as a result (when the book was published) everyone stopped doing Żikr and reciting the Holy Quran loudly. Many people said, ‘If only that scholar had not written that booklet.’
(Kīmiyā-e-Sa’ādat, vol. 2, pp. 692)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Sayyidunā Ibrāĥīm Bin Adĥam عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡاَکْرَم used to say, ‘Do not ask your [Muslim] brother about his fast, because if he says, ‘I am fasting’, this will please his Nafs, and if he says, ‘I am not fasting’, this will sadden his Nafs, and both are signs of showing off.
(Tanbīĥ-ul-Mughtarrīn, pp.24)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
A fasting person should answer if he is questioned
Sayyidunā Abū Ĥurayraĥ رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ reported this saying of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, ‘Whenever someone is given an invitation to a meal he should accept it and if he is fasting, he should pray for the one inviting him.’
(Jāmi’-ut-Tirmiżī, Kitāb-uṣ-Ṣawm, vol. 2, pp. 203, Raqm 780)
A narration of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim states: Whenever anyone is invited to a meal and he is fasting he should say, ‘I am fasting’.
(Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Kitāb-uṣ-Ṣawm, pp. 579, Ḥadīš. 1150)
Muftī Aḥmad Yār Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الْـمَنَّان comment on this Ḥadīš saying: He should not accept the invitation at all, or he should accept it and
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