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A Reminder for Ramadhan

October 17, 2005 on 3:48 pm | In Muhammad (saw), Ramadhan |

A reminder for fellow Muslims about just how good life is for us, even while we fast during this holy month of Ramadhan:

“Abu Talha relates that once he saw the Prophet [pbuh] lying in the mosque. He was, at the time, hungry and restless. Some of his companions, on another occasion, complained of hunger to the Prophet and showed him the slab of stone each had tied to his stomach to mitigate the aching void. They found the Prophet [pbuh] still more famished for he had tied two slabs of stones to his stomach. At times his voice showed that he was starving. Another time, when he had had nothing to eat for quite a few days, he went to see Abu Ayyub Ansari who immediately brought some fresh dates and got some meals cooked for him. Before taking anything brought to him, he sent a bread with some meat to Fatima who had also not taken anything for the last two days.”

– Saiyid Sulaiman Nadwi, “Muhammad, The Ideal Prophet: A Historic, Practical, Perfect Model for Humanity,” Translated by Mohiuddin Ahmad, p. 104