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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DilWala" data-source="post: 10372220" data-attributes="member: 360501"> [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Too Much Food [/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]he  consumption of small  amounts of food guarantees tenderness of the  heart, strength of the  intellect, humility of the self, weakness of  desires, and gentleness of  temperament. Immoderate eating brings about  the opposite of these  praiseworthy qualities. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Al-Miqdam  ibn Ma’d  Yakrib said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah say: “The son of  Adam fills  no vessel more displeasing to Allah than his stomach. A few  morsels  should be enough for him to preserve his strength. If he must  fill it,  then he should allow a third for his food, a third for his  drink and  leave a third empty for easy breathing.”[15] [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Excessive  eating  induces many kinds of harm. It makes the body incline towards   disobedience to Allah and makes worship and obedience seem laborious –   such evils are bad enough in themselves. A full stomach and excessive   eating have caused many a wrong action and inhibited much worship.   Whoever safeguards against the evils of overfilling his stomach has   prevented great evil. It is easier for shaytan to control a person who   has filled his stomach with food and drink, which is why it has often   been said: “Restrict the pathways of shaytan by fasting.”[16] [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It  has been reported  that when a group of young men from the Tribe of  Israel were  worshipping, and it was time for them to break their fast, a  man stood  up and said: “Do not eat too much, otherwise you will drink  too much,  and then you will end up sleeping too much, and then you will  lose too  much.” [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  Prophet and his  companions, may Allah be pleased with them, used to go  hungry quite  frequently. Although this was often due to a shortage of  food, Allah  decreed the best and most favourable conditions for His  Messenger, may  Allah bless him and grant him peace. This is why Ibn  Umar and his father  before him – in spite of the abundance of food  available to them –  modelled their eating habits on those of the  Prophet. It has been  reported that ‘Aisha, may Allah be pleased with  her, said: “From the  time of their arrival in Madina up until his  death, the family of  Muhammad never ate their fill of bread made from  wheat three nights in a  row.”[17] [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Ibrahim  ibn Adham said:  “Any one who controls his stomach is in control of his  deen, and anyone  who controls his hunger is in control of good  behaviour. Disobedience  towards Allah is nearest to a person who is  satiated with a full  stomach, and furthest away from a person who is  hungry.” [/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Keeping Bad Company [/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]nnecessary   companionship is a chronic disease that causes much harm. How often  have  the wrong kind of companionship and intermixing deprived people of   Allah’s generosity, planting discord in their hearts which even the   passage of time-even if it were long enough for mountains to be worn   away-has been unable to dispel. In keeping such company one can find the   roots of loss, both in this life and in the next life. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A  servant should  benefit from companionship. In order to do so he should  divide people  into four categories, and be careful not to get them  mixed up, for once  one of them is mixed with another, then evil can  find its way through to  him: [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  first category are  those people whose company is like food: it is  indispensable, night or  day. Once a servant has taken his need from it,  he leaves it be until he  requires it again, and so on. These are the  people with knowledge of  Allah – of His commands, of the scheming of  His enemies, and of the  diseases of the heart and their remedies – who  wish well for Allah, His  Prophet and His servants. Associating with  this type of person is an  achievement in itself. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  second category are  those people whose company is like a medicine.  They are only required  when a disease sets in. When you are healthy,  you have no need of them.  However, mixing with them is sometimes  necessary for your livelihood,  businesses, consultation and the like.  Once what you need from them has  been fulfilled, mixing with them  should be avoided. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  third category are  those people whose company is harmful. Mixing with  this type of person  is like a disease, in all its variety and degrees  and strengths and  weaknesses. Associating with one or some of them is  like an incurable  chronic disease. You will never profit either in this  life or in the  next life if you have them for company, and you will  surely lose either  one or both of your deen and your livelihood because  of them. If their  companionship has taken hold of you and is  established, then it becomes a  fatal, terrifying sickness. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Amongst  such people are  those who neither speak any good that might benefit  you, nor listen  closely to you so that they might benefit from you.  They do not know  their souls and consequently put their selves in their  rightful place.  If they speak, their words fall on their listeners’  hearts like the  lashes of a cane, while all the while they are full of  admiration for  and delight in their own words. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]They  cause distress to  those in their company, while believing that they  are the sweet scent of  the gathering. If they are silent, they are  heavier than a massive  millstone-too heavy to carry or even drag across  the floor [18] [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]All  in all, mixing with  anyone who is bad for the soul will not last, even  if it is  unavoidable. It can be one of the most distressing aspects of  a  servant’s life that he is plagued by such person, with whom it may  be  necessary to associate. In such a relationship, a servant should  cling  to good behaviour, only presenting him with his outward  appearance,  while disguising his inner soul, until Allah offers him a  way out of his  affliction and the means of escape from this situation. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  fourth category are  those people whose company is doom itself. It is  like taking poison:  its victim either finds an antidote or perishes.  Many people belong to  this category. They are the people of religious  innovation and  misguidance, those who abandon the sunnah of the  Messenger of Allah and  advocate other beliefs. They call what is the  sunnah a bid’a and  vice-versa. A man with any intellect should not sit  in their assemblies  nor mix with them. The result of doing so will  either be the death of  his heart or, at the very best, its falling  seriously ill. [/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]What Gives the Heart Life and Sustenance[/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]ou  should know that  acts of obedience are essential to the well-being of  the servant’s  heart, just in the same way that food and drink are to  that of the body.  All wrong actions are the same as poisonous foods,  and they inevitably  harm the heart. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  servant feels the  need to worship his Lord, Mighty and Glorious is He,  for he is naturally  in constant need of His help and assistance. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In  order to maintain  the well being of his body, the servant carefully  follows a strict diet.  He habitually and constantly eats good food at  regular intervals, and  is quick to free his stomach of harmful elements  if he happens to eat  bad food by mistake. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The  well-being of the  servant’s heart, however, is far more important than  that of his body,  for while the well being of his body enables him to  lead a life that is  free from illnesses in this world, that of the  heart ensures him both a  fortunate life in this world and eternal bliss  in the next. [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In  the same way, while  the death of the body cuts the servant off from  this world, the death of  the heart results in everlasting anguish. A  righteous man once said,  “How odd, that some people mourn for the one  whose body has died, but  never mourn for the one whose heart has died  and yet the death of the  heart is far more serious!” [/FONT] [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Thus  acts of  obedience are indispensable to the well being of the heart. It  is  worthwhile mentioning the following acts of obedience here, since  they  are very necessary and essential for the servant’s heart: Dhikr of Allah ta’ala,   recitation of the Noble Qur’an, seeking Allah’s forgiveness, making   du’as, invoking Allah’s blessings and peace on the Prophet, may Allah   bless him and grant him peace, and praying at night. [/FONT]  [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]FOOTNOTES [/FONT]   [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][1] Da’eef hadith, Al-Mundhari, 3/234; and al-Iraqi in al-Ihya, 8/1539.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][2] Da’eef hadith, at-Tirmidhi, Kitab az-Zuhud, 7/92, gharib;   no one else has transmitted it other than Ibrahim ibn Abdullah ibn   Hatib, whom ath-Thahabi mentions, 1/43, stating that this is one of the gharib hadith attributed to him.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][3] Da’eef hadith, Ibn Hibban and al-Baihaqi, and al-Iraqi in his edition of al-Ihya, 8/1541.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][4] Sahih hadith, at-Tirmidhi, al-Hakim, ath-Thahabi.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][5] Sahih hadith, at-Tirmidhiand Ahmad; also al-Hakim and ath-Thahabi.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][6] Al-Bukhari in Kitab ar-Riqaq, and Muslim in Kitab az-Zuhud.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][7] At-Tirmidhi, Kitab az-Zuhud; he said the hadith is hasan gharib.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][8]  At-Tirmidhi in  Kitab az-Zuhud with a slightly different wording; he  said the hadith is  hasan. This wording is reported by Abu Na’im in  al-Hilya.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][9] Al-Bukhari, Kitab ar-Riqaq, 11/308 and Kitab al-Hudud, 12/113.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][10]  Al-Bukhari, Kitab  ar-Riqaq, 11/308; Muslim, Kitab al-Iman, 2/18. The  complete hadith is:  “Let whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day  either speak good or  remain silent; and let whoever believes in Allah  and the Last Day be  generous to his neighbour; and let whoever believes  in Allah and the  Last Day be generous to his guest.”[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][11]  The hadith is  hasan and is reported by at-Tirmidhi in Kitab az-Zuhud  and by Ibn Majah  in Kitab al-Fitan. At-Tirmidhi classifies it as hasan  gharib. We have no  report of it other than from Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn  Khanis.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][12] Hasan according to Abu Ya`la, Baihaqi and as-Suyuti[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][13]  Sahih,  at-Tirmidhi, Kitab az-Zuhud, 6/607; Ahmad, al-Musnad, 1/201;  as-Sa`ati,  al-Fath ar-Rabbani, 19/257; hadith number 12 in an-Nawawi’s  Forty  Hadiths.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][14] Da’eef, at-Tabarani, 8/63; al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak, 4/314; Ahmad, al-Musnad, 5/264.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][15] Sahih, Ahmad, al-Musnad, 4/132; as-Sa`ati, al-Fath ar-Rabbani, 17/88; at-Tirmidhi, Kitab az-Zuhud, 7/51.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][16] Da’eef; it does not appear in most of the sources of the sunnah, but is mentioned in al-Ghazzali’s al-Ihya, 8/1488.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][17] Al-Bukhari, Kitab al-At’ima, 9/549; and Muslim, Kitab az-Zuhud, 8/105.[/FONT]    [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][18]  Ash-Shafi’ee, may  Allah be pleased with him, is reported to have said,  “Whenever a tedious  person sits next to me, the side on which he is  sitting feels lower  down than the other side of me.”[/FONT]   </blockquote>

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