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Pait ka Qufl e Madina | The Excellence of Hunger
weeping while sitting on the roadside. I sat next to him and then asked, ‘O Abū Isḥāq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ! (This was his Kunyaĥ), why are you weeping?’ At first, he did not tell me the reason, but when I insisted, he replied, ‘O Shafīq! Please keep my secret.’ I assured him that I would not disclose his secret, so he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said, ‘My Nafs had a strong desire for Sikbāj (meat with vinegar and fragrant spices) for thirty years but I kept preventing my Nafs from consuming it. Last night, I had a dream in which I saw a young man who had a green bowl of aromatic Sikbāj. Plucking up the courage, I moved away from him but he forwarded the bowl towards me and said, ‘O Ibrāĥīm, eat.’ I replied, ‘I will not eat because I have already left it for the pleasure of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ.’ He said, ‘It is Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ who has granted you this gift, please eat.’ I had no answer and began to weep. He insisted, ‘May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ shower mercy upon you, (eat).’ I then told him, ‘We have been instructed not to put anything into our stomach until we are absolutely sure that the thing is Ḥalāl.’
The young man said, ‘Eat, may Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ grant you peace! I was given this food and told ‘O Khiḍr! Take this food to Ibrāĥīm Bin Adĥam رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه and feed him. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ had mercy on him for having persistent patience by preventing his Nafs from Sikbāj.’ O Ibrāĥīm رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه, I have heard the angels say, ‘If a person does not accept the thing offered to him, he will not be given that thing even when he asks for it.’ I (Ibrāĥīm Bin Adĥam رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه) said, ‘If it is so, I am prepared for it due to my promise with Allah عَـزَّوَجَـلَّ.’ (I will not eat it). I turned back to return. Meanwhile, giving him something, another young man said, ‘O Khiḍr! Feed him with your own hand.’ Therefore, Khiḍr began to feed me and then my eyes opened. When I woke up, the taste of the food was still in my mouth.
BOOK TOPIC
BOOK TOPIC
- Du'a for Reading the Book
- Transliteration Chart
- Table of Contents
- Translator's Notes
- Excellence of Hunger
- Intentional hunger
- Blessed hunger of the Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- Hungry for many nights
- Two stones tied to stomach
- Affectionate sentiments
- Hunger of Prophet Dawud صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- True devotees should reflect
- Eating just once every two days
- Eating once and fasting
- Fasting with one meal
- A dining cloth made of gold
- Survival on dates and water
- Treasure of hunger and gratification for it
- Perils of a doubtful morsel
- Punishment for consuming a Haram morsel
- Fear of bad end
- Sweetness of worship
- Saint with green skin
- Key to world
- His Nafs took him to Hell
- Banquet on the Day of Judgement
- Physical fitness
- Dry bread and salt
- Reason of nocturnal emission
- Six Madani pearls
- Why emphasis on remaining hungry?
- Respite from Allah عزوجل
- Dua of the Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- Seven intestines
- Seven Madani pearls
- Traveller of Madani Qafilah
- Bowl of milk and seventy companions رضی اللہ عنھم
- Independence from people
- When you eat a lot,you also have to earn a lot
- If only hunger could be purchased
- To eat in excess is attribute of unbelievers
- I am worst person
- Remaining hungry for one year
- How much should common person eat?
- The bird that lives thousand years
- Fat mosquito
- Excellence of lean body
- Causes of obesity
- Definition of youth
- Dangers of pizza
- Story of consumer of pizza
- Cure for obesity
- Get your blood tested
- Four cures for constipation
- Medication for narcolepsy
- Best cure for obesity
- Remedy to stay healthy
- Not everyone's appetite is same
- To drink a lot of water
- Overburden
- I eat very little
- Precautions of eating less
- What is Nafs?
- We live to eat
- Cancer of gums
- Danger of fake Kattha
- Thought-provoking story
- Do you want to eat less?
- Bowl of poison
- Severe accountability for luxuries
- Three questions about every favour
- How to develop habit of eating less?
- Specify portion of your food
- You can mix your food prior to eating
- Method of eating less in presence of others
- Trial for those that eat less
- Eat less for forty days consecutively
- Bitter advice
- 52 Parables
- 2. Madani Qafilah inhabited Masjid
- 3. Eighty companions and a little food
- 4. Gigantic fish
- 5. Amin-ul-Ummah
- 6. Heart patient was cured
- 7. Prophet Yahya علیہ ااسلام and Satan
- 8. He spewed milk
- 9. Roasted meat
- 10. Thought provoking sermon
- 11. The first to shoot an arrow in path of Allah
- 12. Warts on hand
- 13. Ghusl for forty times in one night
- 14. Picking bits of food from floor and eating them
- 15. After difficulty there is ease
- 16. Eating only ten raisins a day
- 17. Desire to eat egg plant
- 18. Eat and drink
- 20. Hiding to avoid eating
- 21. Blessing of a saint 22. Good company
- 22. Good company faithful death
- 23. Bad company bad death
- 24. Hungry lion
- 25. Trusting young man
- 27. An enthusiastic preacher
- 28. Eggs and bread
- 30. Happiness in fever
- 31. Fine of eating lentils
- 32. Fish bone
- 33. Carrot and honey
- 34. He spat out fig
- 35. Confectioner fed them
- 36. Leftover bones
- 37. Fear before eating
- 38. Piece of dry bread
- 39. His vein would pulsate
- 40. Worshipper and pomegranate
- 41. Mahmud Ayaz and slice of cucumber
- 42. Non-Muslim monk embraces Islam
- 43. Rice and fish
- 44. Beneficial to one's heart
- 45. Valimah in Paradise
- 46. Dough that dried in sunlight
- 47. He did not drink milk for forty years
- 48. Meat and bread
- 49. Frightening thunderstorm
- 50. Green bowl
- 51. He used to speak to his Nafs
- 52. He vowed not to eat vegetable
- 15 Ahadis about Excellence of Salat Alan-Nabi صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- 22 Madani Pearls of Giving Dars from Faizan e Sunnat
- Method of Delivering Dars from Faizan e Sunnat
- Dua of Attar
- Glossary
- Bibliography
