{"id":1142,"date":"2013-07-12T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:28:21","slug":"islamic-devotional-stories-pious-people-night-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puthisali.com\/english\/2013\/07\/12\/islamic-devotional-stories-pious-people-night-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Islamic devotional Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 Islamic devotional Stories – pious people night prayers<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 1<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Shaikh Abdul Waahid (Rahmatullah alaih) says, “One day I was so much overpowered by sleep that I went to bed before finishing my Zikr for the night. I saw in my dream a most beautiful girl dressed in green silk. All parts of her<\/span>
\n body and even her shoes were engaged in Zikr. She said to<\/span>
\n me ‘Aspire to possess me; I love you.” And then she recited<\/span>
\n a few couplets depicting the eagerness of a lover. When I<\/span>
\n woke up from the dream, I vowed not to sleep any more<\/span>
\n during the night. It is reported that for full forty years he<\/span>
\n never slept at night, and said Ishaa and Fajr salaats with<\/span>
\n the same wudhu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 2<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Shaikh Mazhar Sa’di (Rahmatullah alaih), the famous<\/span>
\n I pious man, kept weeping for sixty years in love and eagerness<\/span>
\n for Allah. One night he saw in a dream a few damsels<\/span>
\n by the side of pearl trees with gold branches, on the bank of<\/span>
\n the brook brimming with fluid musk, pure and fragrant.<\/span>
\n The girls were hymning the glory of Allah. He asked their<\/span>
\n identity. In reply they recited two couplets, which meant,<\/span>
\n “We have been created by the Sustainer of mankind and<\/span>
\n Lord of Muhammad (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) for those<\/span>
\n people who keep standing before Allah all night long and<\/span>
\n hymning in supplication to Him.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 3 <\/span><\/h2>\n

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Abu Bakr Dharir (Rahmatullah alaih) says, “There<\/span>
\n lived a young slave with me. He fasted all day and stood in<\/span>
\n Tahajjud all night long. One day he came to me and related:<\/span>
\n “Last night against my usual practice I went to sleep.<\/span>
\n 1 saw in my dream that the wail of the Mihraab was<\/span>
\n cracked, and from the crevice appeared a few damsels. One<\/span>
\n of them was very ugly. I asked one of the pretty damsels who they were. She replied that they were my previous<\/span>
\n nights and that the ugly one was this night.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 4<\/span><\/h2>\n

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An eminent Shaikh says: “One night I was in a deep<\/span>
\n sleep and could not get up for Tahajjud. I saw in my dream<\/span>
\n a girl of such beauty as I had never seen in my life. She was<\/span>
\n emitting such fragrance as I had never smelt before. She<\/span>
\n handed over to me a piece of paper on which were written<\/span>
\n three couplets, which meant, ‘You were so enamoured of<\/span>
\n deep sleep that you have become unmindful of the high<\/span>
\n balconies of Paradise, where you have to abide for ever<\/span>
\n with no fear of death. Wake up! It is better to recite the<\/span>
\n Qur’an in Tahajjud than to sleep.” since then, wherever I<\/span>
\n feel sleepy, these couplets come to my mind and the sleep<\/span>
\n goes away.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 5<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Ataa (Rahmatullah alaih) writes, “I went to the market.<\/span>
\n A person had a slave girl to sell, who was said to be mad; I<\/span>
\n purchased her for seven dinaars and brought her to my<\/span>
\n house. After a portion of the night had passed, I noticed<\/span>
\n that she got up, performed wudhu and started her salaat. In<\/span>
\n her salaat she wept so much that I thought she would die<\/span>
\n of excessive crying. After finishing the salaat, she began to<\/span>
\n supplicate before Allah saying, ‘0 my Lord! By the love<\/span>
\n Thou bearest for me, show mercy on me.’ I interrupted by<\/span>
\n telling her that she should rather say, ‘By the love that I<\/span>
\n have for Thee . . .” She got irritated at this suggestion and<\/span>
\n said, ‘By Allah Himself! Had He not loved me, I would not<\/span>
\n be standing here before Him while you are in your bed.’<\/span>
\n Then she fell prostrate and recited a few couplets purporting,<\/span>
\n ‘I am growing more and more restless. How can one<\/span>
\n rest whose peace of mind is taken away by love, eagerness<\/span>
\n and constant anxiety? 0, Allah! Show mercy and give some<\/span>
\n glad tidings.’ Then she prayed in a low voice thus, ‘0<\/span>
\n Allah! So far the matter between me and Thee has been a<\/span>
\n secret. Now people have come to know of it. 0, Allah! Call<\/span>
\n me back.’ After saying this, she cried aloud died on the<\/span>
\n spot.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 6<\/span><\/h2>\n

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A similar thing happened with Sirri (Rahmatuliah<\/span>
\n alaih). He writes: “I bought a slave woman to attend on me.She served me for some time, but I was in the dark about<\/span>
\n her state of affairs. She had a corner in the house reserved<\/span>
\n for her salaat. After finishing her job, she would go there<\/span>
\n and offer her salaat. One night, I noticed her performing<\/span>
\n salaat and then supplicating before Allah. While making<\/span>
\n her supplication, she said, ‘By the love Thou hast for me,<\/span>
\n do such and such a thing for me.’ I shouted out to her, ‘0<\/span>
\n woman, say by the love that I have for Thee.’ She retorted,<\/span>
\n ‘My Master, if He had not loved me, He would not have<\/span>
\n made me stand for salaat and deprive you thereof.’ Next<\/span>
\n morning I sent for her and said to her, ‘You are a misfit in 0 –<\/span>
\n your present job. You are exclusively meant for Allah’s service. I then gave her some gifts and set her free.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 7<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Sirri Saqti (Rahmatullah alaih) writes about another<\/span>
\n woman: “When she stood up for Tahajjud she would say,<\/span>
\n ‘0 Allah! Satan is but Thy creation. Thou hast full power<\/span>
\n over him. He sees me and I cannot see him. Thou see-est<\/span>
\n him and hast control over all his actions, while he has no<\/span>
\n control over Thee. 0, Allah! repel the evil that he wishes to<\/span>
\n do me. Re-quit the wrong he may do to deceive me. I seek<\/span>
\n Thy refuge from his evil designs and with Thy help I cast<\/span>
\n him away.’ Thereafter she would cry bitterly. And as a<\/span>
\n result thereof she lost the sight of one eye. People admonished<\/span>
\n her to stop excessive weeping, lest she should lose<\/span>
\n her other eye as well. She replied, “If it is destined to be an<\/span>
\n eye of Paradise, Allah will grant me better than this; but if<\/span>
\n it be that of Hell, then the sooner it is lost the better.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 8<\/span><\/h2>\n

Muhammad bin Mu.nkadir (Rahmatullah alaih) was a<\/span>
\n Hafiz of Hadith. One night, he wept excessively in his Tahajjud.<\/span>
\n When someone inquired about it, he said, “During<\/span>
\n Qiraat, I came across the following words of the Qur’an:<\/span>
\n “And the evils that they earned will confront them;<\/span>
\n and they will be surrounded by what they used to scoff<\/span>
\n at.” (XXXIX: 48)<\/span>
\n He was very anxious and worried at the time of his<\/span>
\n death, and said that these same words of the Qur’an were<\/span>
\n looming before him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 9<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Thaabit Banaani (Rahmatullah alaih) is another Hafiz<\/span>
\n of Hadith. He used to cry a great deal while supplicating<\/span>
\n before Allah. Someone warned him that he would lose his<\/span>
\n eyesight if he did not stop weeping like that. He replied to<\/span>
\n him, “What use sre these eyes if these do not weep before<\/span>
\n Allah.”<\/span>
\n He used to ask in his prayer, “0, Allah! Permit ms to<\/span>
\n offer my salaat in my grave, if ever you grant this privilege<\/span>
\n to any of Thy slaves!” Abu Sanaan (Rahmatullah alaih) narrates,<\/span>
\n “By Allah! I was among those present at the burial of<\/span>
\n Thaabit Banaani. Just after he had been placed in his grave,<\/span>
\n one of the bricks from the side fell off. I peeped into the pit<\/span>
\n to find to my great amazement, that Thaabit was offering his salaat. I said to a person standing by my side, ‘Look<\/span>
\n what is that.’ He advised me to keep quiet. After the burial,<\/span>
\n we went to his daughter and inquired from her, ‘What was<\/span>
\n the special practice sf your father?’ She wanted to know<\/span>
\n what made us put that question. We related to her the incident<\/span>
\n at the grave. She said, “He has been constant in Tahajjud<\/span>
\n for fifty years and prayed every morning before Allah to<\/span>
\n allow him to offer salaat in the grave if that privilege could<\/span>
\n be granted to anybody.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 10<\/span><\/h2>\n

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It is said of a pious man that once he had a sore on his<\/span>
\n foot. According to the opinion of the surgeons, if his foot<\/span>
\n was not amputated, the sore might prove fatal. His mother<\/span>
\n proposed that the operation should be done while he was<\/span>
\n absorbed in his salaat. This was done, and no pain was felt<\/span>
\n by him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Islamic devotional Story- 11<\/span><\/h2>\n

Abu ‘Aamir (Rahmatullah alaih) says, “I saw a slave<\/span>
\n woman on sale for a very small sum. She was very emaciated<\/span>
\n and her hair was dirty. I took pity on her and purchased<\/span>
\n her. I said to her, ‘Come, woman, let us go and<\/span>
\n make purchases for Ramadhaan.’ She remarked, ‘Alhamdulillah,<\/span>
\n all the months are alike for me.’ She fasted on all<\/span>
\n days and stood in salaat for all nights. When Eid drew near,<\/span>
\n I said to her, ‘Woman! You will go with me tomorrow to<\/span>
\n make purchases for Eid. She remarked, ‘My master! You<\/span>
\n are too much absorbed in this world.’ She then went into her room and started her salaat. She was reciting Soorah<\/span>
\n Ibrahim and when she reached the 16th verse of the Soorah<\/span>
\n (viz.,<\/span>
\n ‘Hell is before him and he is made to drink boiling fetid<\/span>
\n water’, which described the doom of a disbeliever, she repeated<\/span>
\n it again and again, and then gave out a cry and fell<\/span>
\n dead.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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