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Pait ka Qufl e Madina | The Excellence of Hunger
In Sūraĥ Al-Aḥqāf, verse 20, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says:
اَذۡہَبۡتُمۡ طَیِّبٰتِکُمۡ فِیۡ حَیَاتِکُمُ الدُّنۡیَا
وَ اسۡتَمۡتَعۡتُمۡ بِہَا ۚ فَالۡیَوۡمَ تُجۡزَوۡنَ عَذَابَ الۡہُوۡنِ
You have exhausted your good things in your worldly life and fully enjoyed them, therefore, today you will be given the humiliating punishment.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 26, Sūraĥ Al-Aḥqāf, verse 20)
Blessed hunger of the Holy Prophet
Commenting on the foregoing verse, the spiritual successor of A’lā Ḥaḍrat Imām Aḥmad Razā Khān عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن, Ṣadr-ul-Afāḍil Shaykh Na’īmuddīn Murādābādī عَـلَـیۡـهِ رَحْـمَـةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـھَادِی has stated in his renowned exegesis of the Holy Quran, Khazāin-ul-‘Irfān: In this verse, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has reprimanded the unbelievers for having worldly pleasures. Therefore, the Holy Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ تَعَـالٰى عَـلَيْـهِ وَاٰلـِهٖ وَسَـلَّم and his companions abstained from worldly pleasures.
In Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, it is stated that until the apparent demise of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ تَعَـالٰى عَـلَيْـهِ وَاٰلـِهٖ وَسَـلَّم, the blessed family never ate bread made from barley for two consecutive days. It is also mentioned in a Ḥadīš that at times the whole month passed, but fire would not burn on the stove (for cooking food). The blessed household would merely survive on water and a few dates. Sayyidunā ‘Umar Fārūq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has quoted that the Holy Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰى عَـلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has stated, ‘O people! If I had wanted, I would have eaten better than you and worn better clothes than you, but I want to reserve my pleasures and comforts for my Hereafter.’
(Khazāin-ul-‘Irfān, pp. 907)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
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- 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
