Bismillahir
Rahmanir Raheem
Assalamu Alaikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barkatuh!
Fasting and Patience
It is a narration from one of the companions
from Bani Saleem tribe
that Prophet Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Sallam
counting on his hand said:
"The tasbeeh (Zikr) fills the half balance
and 'Alhamdolillah' fills it completely
and takbeer (Allah-o-Akbar) fills
whatsoever is in between sky & earth
and
fasting is half patience
and piousness is the half imaan (belief).
(At-Tirmidhi)
Fasting and Patience
Hadith:
It is a narration from one of the companions from Bani Saleem tribe that
Prophet Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Sallam
counting on his hand said:
"The tasbeeh (Zikr) fills the half balance
and 'Alhamdolillah' fills it completely
and takbeer (Allah-o-Akbar) fills whatsoever is
in between sky & earth
and fasting is half
patience
and piousness is the half imaan (belief)."
(At-Tirmidhi)
Benefits:
In
this Hadith Mubarakah Prophet Sallallaho Aleihe Wasallam has taught
some important points to the Ummah. First of all Prophet Sallallahu
Aleihi Wa Sallam has told about zikr. This zikr is the food of hearts
and ways of life for ahl-ullah. If they do not get them then the body
for those hearts will turn into graves for them and their hearts are
alive from zikr. If their hearts are emptied from (zikr) then it will
be like deserted.
Zikr of Allah is the only way and the door which are
open in between Allah Jal Jalalahu and His worshippers and from them
the worshippers can reach to High Throne and when the worshippers are
neglecting zikr of Allah then this door get closed.
Allah
Taa'la has brightened likewise to those see-able eyes from light the
same way He has bestowed with zikr to those tongues who practices it.
That is why, the tongue which is neglecting remembrances of Allah is
like those eyes which are deprived of eyesight and like those ears
which has lost the power of listening and is like those hands which are
damaged after paralyzing.
In
many places in Qur'an with regard to the zikr of Allah are mentioned.
In one place Allah Taa'la is directing to His worshippers like this:
"Therefore remember Me (by praying, glorifying).
I will remember you, and be
grateful to Me
(for My countless Favors on you)
and never be ungrateful to Me."
< Al-Baqarah: 152 >
Subhanallah!
What would have been greater thriving successfulness of the worshippers
that Creator & Omnipotent of the whole world remembers & keeps
remembering them (worshippers)?
In
Hadith Mubarakah Prophet Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Sallam said that uttering
'SUBHANALLAH' is such an act of expressing of Glorifying the Greatness
of Allah that which is enough
to fill the half balance with deeds but this expression must be with
true heart. The receipt of the Greatness of Allah Taa'la with true
heart can change the life of a person. Then, why the balance of one's
deed will not fill?
To utter 'ALHAMDOLILLAH' that is to praise
Allah Taa'la which life is related to the praising Allah's tasbeeh and
praise that life is the life which can be called 'COMPLETE LIFE'. That
is why it is quite natural to get the balance of deed filled for making
tasbeeh (Subhanallah) and tamheed (Alhamdolillah).
For
those who has attained to the real sensibility to utter takbeer
(Allah-o-Akbar) they listen the echo of takbeer in the nature all
around in the land and in the sky. Every particle of sky and earth is
describing the Greatness & Enormity of Allah. When any one sings
the praise of Allah, every particle of sky and earth joins him alike
his sound of string has joined with that of Nature.
Again, there is mention about zikr of patience in Hadith
Mubarakah. we can assume the whole life of a believer as patience. The
believers are binding to a peculier life style. His main (purpose) is
the success of Hereafter. He is alive in this world so that he remains
busy journeying in the path of Allah. He is required to have a great
patience; without patience neither a human being can walk a single step
nor without it his well-being and character can be built.
In this
Hadith the fasting has been called as half-patience. It means that
whosoever fasted he learnt of perseverance in patience. Now, it is
required that he is benefitted in his entire life and he turns it into
patience. The day his life has been turned into patience that day we
can say that he has perfected his own patience. That time he has not
half-patience but he will attain patience completely, inshallah.
There is deep-rooted relation and connection in between the
patience and fasting that from the thinking of fasting there comes the
thinking of patience in mind automatically and manifests the extract of
fasting that it's beginning is patience and it's end is also patience.
Whosoever is not acquinted with patience he is indeed not a
fasting person and whosoever became real fasting person he has absorbed
the reality of patience and steadfastness in himself.
Fasting and
patience are such deeds whose reward and compensation are also
exceptional. The utmost display of Mercifulness of Allah Ta'ala is on
the compensation of these two deeds. In regard to fasting as mentioned
in Hadith that Allah Ta'ala says that its reward and compensation will
be given by Me and with regard to patience.
Allah Ta'ala says:
"Only those who are patient
shall receive their reward in full,
without reckoning."
< Az-Zumar (39): 10 >
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