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Madinay ki Machli | The Fish of Madinah
Unique dining mat
Once, many guests arrived at Sayyiduna Shaykh Abul Hasan Antaaki’s house. At night, when dinner was to be served, bread was in less quantity. Therefore, pieces of bread were kept on the dining mat and lamp was kept at some other place. In the dark, all the guests sat to have the meal. After some time, when the lamp was brought, assuming that all people would have finished eating, all the pieces of bread were kept as it is on the dining mat. Everyone showed their mettle in acting selflessly and did not take even a bite because everyone had the Madani mindset that, ‘I shall not eat so that my Islamic brother may fill his stomach.’ (Ithaf-us-Sadah, vol. 9, pp. 783)
May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ have mercy on them and forgive us without accountability for their sake!
Excellence of forgoing one’s desire
Allah! Allah! How great was the desire of our saints to act selflessly. Regretfully, today our greediness and cupidity has increased to such an extent that when we attend a party and the feast begins, we eat quickly to such extent that we forget to ‘chew and eat’, instead we just ‘gulp down’ the food. We have the fear that our Islamic brother may succeed in having the meal and we may be left behind!
Our state of greediness has increased so much that if possible, we may snatch morsel even from one’s mouth and swallow it.
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BOOK TOPIC
- Table of Contents
- Excellence of Salat-‘Alan-Nabi صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- Grapes sacrificed
- Definition of Isaar (selflessness)
- Sacred habit of Holy Prophet صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم in his blessed childhood
- You can never attain virtue
- Explanation of this verse
- Sacks of sugar
- Beloved garden
- An excellent horse
- Farooq-e-A’zam liked the slave girl, so he set her free!
- The fine camel of Sayyiduna Abu Zar Ghifari
- Three benefits are obtained from wealth
- Inheritor’s wealth
- Selflessness of a terminally-ill patient!
- Astonishing swiftness in generosity!
- Carry out good deeds swiftly
- Accepted the request without reading it!
- Heart can be purchased with benevolence, not with money
- Generous is not the one who gives only when requested
- Regret for not communicating with the friend
- An unusual hospitality
- Beloved Prophet did not keep food for the next day
- Most important ruling regarding the fast of a child
- If there is gold equivalent to the Uhud mountain, even then…
- O you who preach Sunnah!
- Bracelet of fire
- Selflessness of Sayyidatuna Fatimah
- Great reward for feeding someone
- Unique dining mat
- Excellence of forgoing one’s desire
- Methods to earn reward of selflessness, free of cost
- Reward of selflessness, Jannah without accountability
- Skull of a goat
- Qutb-e-Madinah mentioned the parable of a selfless businessman
- Unique dacoits
- Selflessly, gave his food to a dog
- A strange parable of dog’s selflessness!
- Selflessness, even at the time of death
- One who gave water selflessly, entered Jannah
- Madani parable of selflessness
- 14 Madani pearls about clothing
- Madani attire
- Du’a of ‘Attar
