Aslam

There is a well known story that the Prophet once ordered Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Osman to wash the dead body of a poor man. They washed and buried him. Thereafter the Prophet said to his companions : He will be raised up on the Resurrection Day in such a condition that his face will be brilliant like the moon in full moon light-night. Had not there been in him a habit, his face would have been radiant like the sun. We asked : O Prophet of ' God what is it? he said : He fasted, prayed prayers and remembered God much. When the winter came, he used to store up cloths for the following summer and when the summer came, he used to -store winter cloth for the following winter. Theri the Prophet said : I am seeing little of sure faith and determined / patience in what has been given to you. The business man has not I been told to give up business and the industrialist to give up industry but they were not enjoined to keep themselves very busy in those things. Rather he called all persons towards God and showed them such a path which will help them towards success and salvation and turn their mind from the world. The best thing with which one can engage himself is mind. So it is necessary for a man of weak faith to store up what is necessary as it is proper for a man of sure faith not to store anything. This is necessary for a man without family.

God-reliance of a man having family. A man having family will not go out of the limit of God-reliance if he stores up

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