Someone has stated: During my stay in Madinah Munawwarah, I was once hungry and had nothing to eat. I humbly visited the luminous shrine and said, ‘یَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ! اَلْجُوْع’ i.e. Ya Rasoolallah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ! I am hungry. Saying this, I sat down near the blessed Hujrah. A respected Sayyid came to me and said, ‘Come with me.’ I asked, ‘Where?’ He replied, ‘Come to my home so that you may eat and drink something.’ I went with him; and he gave me a big bowl of Sareed [i.e. a meal] with sufficient quantity of meat and olive in it. I ate well and intended to return. He said, ‘Eat more.’ I ate a little bit more.
When I was about to return, he gave me some Madani pearls of advice in these words, ‘O my brother! Just ponder! You people come from distant places, crossing jungles, deserts, oceans and leaving your family members behind. But when you are privileged to visit the blessed court of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ, you are left with only one purpose, i.e. Ya Rasoolallah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ! Grant me a piece of bread! O my brother! If you had asked for Paradise, forgiveness of sins, pleasure of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and His Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ or any other great thing, you would have been granted them as well by the benevolence of the Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ.’
(Shawahid-ul-Haq, pp. 240)
May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ have mercy upon him and forgive us without accountability for his sake!
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