..& I Have Accepted The Invitation

Thursday, November 19, 2009

And Al-Hajjaj was on a journey between Makkah and Madinah.

 He pulled out his dinner and invited a bedouin to eat with him and the bedouin said:

 “I have been invited by One who is better than you and I have accepted the invitation.”

He asked: “And who is this?”

The man replied: “Allah invited me to fast, and I fasted.”

 Al-Hajjaj asked: “On this very hot day?”

The man replied: “Yes. I am fasting it in anticipation of a much hotter day.”

al-Hajjaj said: “So, eat today and fast tomorrow.”

The man replied: “Only if you can guarantee that I will live until tomorrow.”

al-Hajjaj said: “This isn’t in my hands.”

The man said: “How can you ask me to do something now when there is something of the future that isn’t in your hands?”

In The Intense Heat..

And al-Qasim bin Muhammad said that A’ishah (radiAllahu 'anhaa) would fast in the intense heat and he was asked: “What drove her to do this?”

 He replied: “She would take advantage of the days before death.”

And some of the righteous women would choose the hottest days and fast them, saying: “If the price is low, everyone will buy,” meaning that she wanted to do those actions that only a few were capable of, due to how hard it was to do them and this is indicative of the high aspirations these women had.