modest person and at times, the Noblest Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم announced that his (i.e. Usman-e-Ghani’s رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ) intercession will bless people with Jannah. Let us listen to four blessed sayings of the Holy Nabi صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم in relation to the excellences of Sayyiduna ‘Usman-e-Ghani رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ:

1. ‘Usman (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ) is from me and I am from ‘Usman (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ). (Tareekh-e-Dimashq, vol. 39, pp. 102)

2. Every Nabi will have a companion in Paradise and my companion will be ‘Usman Bin ‘Affaan (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ). (Tareekh-e-Dimashq, vol. 39, pp. 104)

3. By the intercession of ‘Usman (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ), 70,000 such people will enter Jannah without accountability upon whom Hell would have become Wajib. (Tareekh-e-Dimashq, vol. 39, pp. 122)

4. Modesty is from Iman and the most modest one from my Ummah is ‘Usman (رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ). (Tareekh-e-Dimashq, vol. 39, pp.92)

Dear Islamic brothers! What can be said about the modesty of Sayyiduna ‘Usman-e-Ghani رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ, that even the Noblest Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would feel shy (حیا) in front of Sayyiduna ‘Usman-e-Ghani رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ. He                رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ was a man of distinctive characteristics, to the extent that he                  رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ remained far away from various evils, even during the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.

Commenting on some of his own qualities, Sayyiduna ‘Usman-e-Ghani               رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ relates, ‘I have neither sung any useless poetry and nor wished ever to do so. I never drank alcohol during the pre-Islamic era of ignorance and neither after embracing Islam. Moreover, since I have taken Bay’at (pledge) at the blessed hands of the Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, I have not touched my private parts with that hand since then.’

(Tareekh Ibn ‘Asakir, vol. 39, pp. 225)

He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ further states, ‘I take a ritual bath in an enclosed room and fold my hands and limbs due to having humility from Allah عزَّوَجَلَّ.

(Mirqat-ul-Mafatih, Hadees 5071)