Fruits of Being Thankful to ALLAH

Fruits of Being Thankful to ALLAH

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 2:32pm

There are many stories in the Qur'an and the Hadith which we hear and pass by like tales as Islamic entertainments but most of us do not study the motivating morals behind them.  They can really change our lives if properly studied and implemented the lessons from them. Let me share two of them today.

   There was a man who had a large orchard which gave a lot of fruits in every season. The man divided the fruits into three parts one third he kept for his family's sustanence the second third for future investments and the last one third he gave away to the poor and it  was a huge  amount that he shared with the poor and the needy. The man showed  gratefulness to Allah by sharing His blessings with the poor. Such was his generosity that the poor in his locality used to wait for his harvest eagerly every time his trees gave fruits..

 He had four sons  according to Sahih Hadith, all of them were unhappy with their father's  charity oriented divisoin of fruits and they thought that their father was being too extreme in charity. Few years later the man died leaving behind the vaste orchard with ready to yeild fruits about to be harvested. So the brothers met one night and decided .. Let us go to the farm in the darkness of the night and pluck all the fruits and not give  to the poor since our father has already been giving them a lot since many years...

So as the Qur'an says in Surah Qalam ch 68.. they walked slowly towards their garden so that the neighboring poor may not even hear their footsteps..But when they reached the orchard they found it burnt and destroyed.. so they thought they they were in a different place by mistake but one of them reminded them that they were in the right place indeed and the farm was destroyed by Allah last night...The reason ? "Lawlaa Tusabbehoon"They didn to do the tasbeeh of Allah !!

  The Quran says further that they accepted their mistake and repented with a supplication that Allah will give us in exchange a better garden than this for we turn to Him in repentance.

 Motivating and Inspiring Morals in the story? 1.Tasbeeh does not only mean to chant Allah's name but also be charitable and generous towards others...  2. If you are ungrateful towards the Blessings of Allah, than Allah may snatch away His Blessings that he has given to you...  3. Being grateful to Allah for His blessings also include sharing His blessings with others...4. If you have shown ungratefull ness yet  repenting wil undo your evil inshallah

 In Musnad e Ahmed another story  of this sort is mentioned by Anas bin Malik r.a. : Once we were sitting in the company of the Prophet (pbuh) and a beggar came asking for alms.. the Prophet (pbuh) had only a piece of date .. so he asked a person to go and give that date tot he beggar.. The beggar on recieivng only one date got irritated and returned the date and walked awya saying.. I had heard that his messenger of Allah is very generous. now I come to know how generous is he, he is offering me only one date  which even I can offer him... A few minutes later another man came begging, the Prophet (pbuh) offered the same date to the next beggar.. this man tossedup the date happily ahd kept on saying Subhanallah the date from the house of the Propeht!! Subhanllah a date from the house of the Prophet and he moved happily thanking Allah aloud.. the Prophet ( pbuh ) smiled and asked Anas bin Malik to go to umme salam's hosue and get those 40 Dirhams  she had, andhe gave it to the beggar.. The same 'date' but two different attitudes and two different responses and two different results...

 Moral of the Story ? If you thank Allah you get more.. This is precisly what Allah offers in Surah Ibrahim verse 7 : And if you be grateful then I will give you more...

 Now to motivate you ,Umar bin Abdul Azeez said : O People grab firmly the blessings of Allah by thanking Him and it will be with you for ever...

   Do you have a list of blessings from Allah?  Though we cannot enlist all His blessings even if we try to  but atleast some ...Look into it and see how many blesings have you thanked Him for...

Author : Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educational issues from Islamic viewpoint. He can be reached through nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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