and he would comment: ‘Don’t fear, spend generously, I can arrange a loan for you from here.’ (Seerat Ameer-e-Millat, pp. 123)

O pilgrim of Madinah! You also make intention to please the needy people of Madinah. Fulfilling the needs of Muslims brings about ease in world and Hereafter as it is stated in the following blessed Hadees as narrated by Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ:

The Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said: Whoever provides the poor with comfort in the world, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will provide him with ease in the world and Hereafter. (Sahih Muslim, Kitab-uz-Zikr, pp. 1447, Raqm 2699)

Obviously, those suffering intense destitution will be highly grieved and distressed, and the Du’a of the distressed is accepted. On page 111 of his book published under the name ‘Fazaail-e-Du’a’ by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, ‘Allamah Maulana Naqi ‘Ali Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has listed the types of people whose Du’as are accepted. The very first in this list is ‘a distressed person’ (i.e. one who is sad due to worries). Elaborating on this, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has annotated in footnote on the same page: A Quranic Ayah also states that the Du’a of the grieved and the helpless is accepted.

اَمَّنْ یُّجِیْبُ الْمُضْطَرَّ اِذَا دَعَاهُ وَ یَكْشِفُ السُّوْٓءَ

Translation from Kanz-ul-Iman: Or He Who answers the prayer of the helpless when he invokes Him and removes the evil.

(Part 20, Surah An-Naml, Ayah 62)

Therefore, whenever you pay a visit to blessed Madinah or whenever you get opportunity, help the needy and the helpless people and get yourself remembered in their prayers. Along with it, you will have immense goodness in this world too and it is hoped from the mercy of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ that help of an oppressed person will bear fruit in the form of glad tiding of forgiveness for you, as mentioned in a beautiful Hadees:

A person, in the past, used to lend money to the people and instruct his slave, ‘When you go to a poor debtor, forgive him with the hope that Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will