{"id":16539,"date":"2020-11-10T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=16539"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:11:02","slug":"the-orchards-of-love-part-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=16539","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala – The Orchards of Love \u2013 Part Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Greatest Bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hazrat Ayyoob (\u2018alaihis salaam) was a Nabi of Allah Ta\u2018ala who was tested with severe sickness. After patiently enduring many years of sickness, Allah Ta\u2018ala granted him complete shifaa. Allah Ta\u2018ala commanded him to strike his feet on the ground, thereby causing a spring of pure, healing water to gush forth. He bathed in the water and was completely cured. Furthermore, Allah Ta\u2018ala restored his youth, granted him exceptional beauty, and blessed him with double the favors that he had lost during the period of his illness.<\/p>\n

In regard to the spring of Hazrat Ayyoob (\u2018alaihis salaam), it is reported that it possessed special healing and rejuvenating qualities. Hence, as long as the spring remained and did not dry up, people would come to it and bathe in it to find cure from their ailments. (Umdatul Qaari vol. 16 pg.3)<\/em> Indeed, how unique was this healing spring and how fortunate were those blessed to bathe in its water! However, it was not long before the spring dried up.<\/p>\n

As far as the ummah of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) is concerned, Allah Ta\u2018ala has not blessed us with a spring, but rather He has blessed us with an ocean that has no shores and contains pearls, emeralds, rubies and every form of priceless treasure. The more one draws from this ocean, the more it increases. It will never decrease nor dry up, but will remain forever, blessing its people with cure, barakah and goodness.<\/p>\n

What is this ocean? It is none other than the Qur\u2019aan Majeed, the divine speech of Allah Ta\u2018ala to His creation and the greatest bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala in the world. As long as the ummah firmly holds onto the Qur\u2019aan Majeed and fulfils its rights, this Qur\u2019aan Majeed will be a source of light for them in this world and in the grave. Furthermore, on the Day of Qiyaamah, it will accompany them on the plains of Resurrection until it enters them into Paradise.<\/p>\n

It is reported from Hazrat Mu\u2019aaz bin Jabal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) that when a person who holds firmly onto the Qur\u2019aan Majeed passes away, then before being buried, while his family are still engaged in attending to his funeral rites, the Qur\u2019aan comes to him in a beautiful form and stands at his head side, protecting him and comforting him until he is wrapped in his kafan (shroud). The Qur\u2019aan then enters the kafan and rests on his chest. When he is placed in the grave, and the soil is placed over him, and all his friends depart, then the angels, Munkar and Nakeer, come to him and make him sit up in his grave. The Qur\u2019aan then comes between him and the angels. The angels address the Qur\u2019aan saying, \u201cMove away so that we may question him.\u201d However, the Qur\u2019aan replies, \u201cNever will I move away! By the Lord of the Ka\u2019bah, he remained my companion and friend in the world! Therefore, I will never abandon him in any situation! If you have been instructed to carry out any task (i.e. question him), then you may do so, but leave me to remain here with him, for I will not leave him until I enter him into Jannah.\u201d (Majma\u2018uz Zawaa\u2019id #3530)<\/em><\/p>\n

May Allah Ta\u2018ala grant us the tawfeeq to remain loyal to the Qur\u2019aan Majeed by reciting it daily and upholding its teachings in every department of our lives so that we may acquire the true blessings of the Qur\u2019aan Majeed in this world, in the grave and the Hereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greatest Bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala Hazrat Ayyoob (\u2018alaihis salaam) was a Nabi of Allah Ta\u2018ala who was tested with severe sickness. After patiently enduring many years of sickness, Allah Ta\u2018ala granted him complete shifaa. Allah Ta\u2018ala commanded him to strike his feet on the ground, thereby causing a spring of pure, healing water to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-orchards-of-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19810,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions\/19810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}