4.
Gigantic fish
Sayyidunā Abū 'Abdullāĥ Jābir Bin
'Abdullāĥ has narrated: The Holy Prophet ﷺ
once sent us to do Jihad against the Quraysh. There were a total of 300 Muslim
Mujāhidīn whose commander was Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ Bin Jarrāḥ . We were given
a small sack of dates as our provisions for the journey. Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ
used to give each one of us a single date every day.
When he was asked as to how they
used to survive on merely a single date every day, he replied that they used to
suck the date as a little child does and drink water thereafter. This was
sufficient for the entire day and night. He goes onto say, we would make the
tree leaves (which the camels eat) fall with our spears, soak them in water and
then eat the leaves.
While passing through the seashore,
we saw a huge thing from afar like a sand dune. When we approached it, we
discovered that it was a dead fish. Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ said, 'This is dead
(and we cannot eat it)' but then he added, 'No, we have been sent by the Holy
Prophet ﷺ and are travelling in the path of Allah .
You people are also suffering from severe hunger; therefore, you may eat this.'
We survived on that fish for a month, we were three hundred and all of us
became energetic and active. We would carve large amounts of fat from its eye
cavity. We also cut buffalo-sized pieces of flesh from the fish. The eye cavity
of the fish was so large that Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ made thirteen of us sit
within this cavity (and we all sat in it). We took one of its ribs and made it
stand like a bow, then put the saddle on a large camel's back; the rib of the
fish was so huge that the camel passed beneath the rib without touching it. We
also took some dry meat with us as provisions for the journey (ahead).
When we arrived in the Holy city of
Madīnaĥ and came in the blessed court of the Holy Prophet ﷺ, we mentioned this incident. The Holy Prophet ﷺ said, 'That was sustenance Allah created for you. Do you have
some of that meat? If you have, give to me for eating.' We sent the Holy
Prophet ﷺ the meat which he ﷺ consumed.
(Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, vol. 2, pp. 147,
Ḥadīš 1935)
May Allah have mercy on them and
forgive us without accountability for their sake!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
5.
Amīn-ul-Ummaĥ
Dear Islamic brothers! May our lives
be sacrificed on the spirit and enthusiasm of the companions ! The resources
were so scarce that they had to survive on leaves of trees and a single date a
day! Despite facing such tough circumstances, they would fight the enemies of
Islam and sacrifice their lives in the path of Allah.
The campaign mentioned in the
foregoing parable is called 'Sayf-ul-Baḥr' or 'Jaysh-ul-'Usraĥ.' Sayyidunā Abū
'Ubaydaĥ Bin Jarrāḥ , one of the ten great companions called
'Asharaĥ-e-Mubashsharaĥ', was the commander of the Muslim army. The Holy
Prophet ﷺ gave him the great title of
'Amīn-ul-Ummaĥ' (the trustworthy for the Ummaĥ).
He embraced Islam in the early
Islamic period as a result of the individual effort made by Sayyidunā Abū Bakr
Ṣiddīq . He was extremely brave, courageous, tall and his blessed face was
thin. During the battle of Uḥud, when two metal-spikes got embedded in the
blessed cheek of the Holy Prophet ﷺ,
Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ pulled them out from the blessed face of the Beloved and
Blessed Prophet ﷺ with
his own teeth. Due to this, two of his own front teeth broke.
(Al-Uṣābaĥ fī Tamīz-iṣ-Ṣaḥābaĥ,
vol. 3, pp. 476)
May Allah have mercy on them and
forgive us without accountability for their sake!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! Finding the
huge fish on the occasion of 'Jaysh-ul-'Usraĥ', the companions' eating it for a
month and then bringing its flesh to Madīnaĥ on camels without any change in
its taste were all indeed saintly miracles of Sayyidunā Abū 'Ubaydaĥ and other
companions .
Allah showers His mercy upon those
who tread on His path. He bestows greatness upon them even in times of trouble.
Paying homage to the sacrifices of the companions, every Muslim should always
be ready to serve Islam.
اَلْحَمْدُ
لِلّٰه عَزَّوَجَلَّ! All
the Islamic brothers and sisters of Dawat-e-Islami have a Madanī ambition, that
is, 'I must strive to reform myself and the people of the entire world اِنْ شَآءَاللّٰه عَزَّوَجَلَّ.' In order to accomplish
this Madanī ambition, numerous Madanī Qāfilaĥs of Dawat-e-Islami travel from
town to town and city to city. Every Muslim should travel with these Madanī
Qāfilaĥs and reap the blessings. (In this regard) you have just listened to how
amazingly those glorious individuals, treading on the path of Allah , were
blessed with divine help in the form of a gigantic fish.
اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, even today, those who sincerely
endeavour to take the step on the path of Allah , with the intention of serving
Islam, are blessed and graced by the Almighty . Here is a blessing of
Dawat-e-Islami's Madanī Qāfilaĥ.
6.
Heart patient was cured
A person from Bāb-ul-Madīnaĥ,
Karachi, had a heart disease. Doctors told him that the two arteries of his
heart were blocked and suggested angiography to him as the cure. This poor
person became extremely worried, as he was unable to afford the expenses of the
surgery. Meanwhile, making individual effort, an Islamic brother persuaded him
to travel with a Sunnaĥ-Inspiring Madanī Qāfilaĥ of Dawat-e-Islami and make
Du'ā. Therefore, he travelled with a 3-days Madanī Qāfilaĥ.
On his return from the Madanī
Qāfilaĥ, he felt much better. When he had his tests done, the reports showed no
heart disease at all. The doctor asked him astonishingly, 'Two of your heart's
arteries were blocked, but now they have opened; how did it happen!' He replied
that he had been cured from the lethal heart disease due to the blessing of
travelling with Dawat-e-Islami's Madanī Qāfilaĥ.
Lūīnay
raḥmatayn Qāfilay mayn chalo
Sīkĥnay Sunnatayn Qāfilay mayn chalo
Dil mayn gar dard ĥo dar say rukh zard ĥo
Pāo gey rāḥatayn Qāfilay mayn chalo
To
gain mercy, travel with Madanī Qāfilaĥ
To learn Sunnaĥ, travel with Madanī Qāfilaĥ
If you have heart problem and are frightened of it
You will be cured, travel with Madanī Qāfilaĥ
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
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