17 May 2017

The garment and the three dates

Sheikh Ibn Uthaimeen narrates from a trustworthy person that there was a man who use to forbid his wife from giving charity to any poor person who knocked on the door!

So one day a poor man knocked on the door, he said that he has no clothes to protect him from the cold. She was afraid for his situation and so she gave him a garment and three dates.

The husband was sleeping in the mosque and he saw in his dream that it was the Judgment day and Judgment has begun.

He saw the people in enormous waves, extreme heat, and the sun burning. He then raises his head into the garment, and it, the garment, has three holes. Then he saw three dates came into to fill these holes so he was astonished and woke up from his sleep horrified. He related this story to his wife who then explained to him that the reason for this dream is the garment and dates she gave as charity.

So he replied to her: Do not turn away a poor person after today.

This incident made this person guided by Allah (عز وجل) and the Prophet (صلي الله عليه وسلم) Said  “Every man will be in the shade of his charity on the Day of Resurrection.”

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