The Lady of Paradise

owner of Paradise and the master of al-Kawthar - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. She is the Lady of Paradise, and whether someone acknowledges it or not, we get everything for the sake of these five sacred personalities:

1. Our Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم

1. Sayyidunā ꜤAlī رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ

1. Imām Ḥasan رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ

1. Imām Ḥusayn رَضِىَ اللّٰهُ عَـنْهُ

1. And Lady Fāṭimah رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهَا herself.

In Sufis terminology, faqr means detachment from مَا سِوَ اللہ (everything except Allah Almighty). The Sufi saint, Abū Bakr al-Shiblī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه explains:

If someone is given all the wealth of the world and he donates it in charity in just a single day, but later regrets not keeping a small portion for himself; he has not truly detached himself from the world.

Another Sufi saint, Abū ꜤAlī al-Daqqāq رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه once encountered a true faqir (spiritual ascetic) wearing a garment made of coarse cloth. A student jokingly asked, “How much did you pay for this?”

The faqīr replied, “I purchased it by giving up the entire world. I was told to exchange it for the Hereafter, but I refused to sell it.”

This means that he wore the cloth purely for the pleasure of Allah Almighty, and he would not trade this for anything else – not even Paradise itself – as his only wish was to please the Creator of Paradise, the Almighty Lord.^{^[1]}

[1] Risālah Qushayriyyah, p. 480

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