{"id":4700,"date":"2013-05-08T07:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2018-02-13T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:08:58","slug":"the-precious-gifts-of-allah-taala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"The Precious Gifts of Allah Ta&#8217;ala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Roses-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" alt=\"Roses 3\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4701\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Roses-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px; margin: 5px;\" \/><\/a>Once a person came to a pious servant of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala and complained of his poverty. He explained to the pious man that he was undergoing great distress and preferred death to such a life. The pious man asked him: &ldquo;Are you willing to have your eyes removed in exchange for ten thousand dirhams?&rdquo; The man replied: &ldquo;Certainly not.&rdquo; The pious man further asked: &ldquo;Would you like to have your tongue plucked out in return of ten thousand dirhams?&rdquo; The man replied: &ldquo;Definitely not.&rdquo; The pious man then asked: &ldquo;Would you agree to have both your hands and feet severed in return of twenty thousand dirhams?&rdquo; The man said that he would not agree. The pious man asked: &ldquo;Are you willing to become a mad man in exchange of ten thousand dirhams?&rdquo; The man said that he was not prepared. Upon this, the pious man said to him: &ldquo;Are you not ashamed of yourself? You admit that Allah Ta&rsquo;ala has granted you so many precious gifts, the value of which, in your own estimation, exceeds fifty thousand dirhams (counting only a few limbs on his body by way of illustration) and yet you complain of poverty?! &nbsp;( Fazaail Sadaaqaat pg.552)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a person came to a pious servant of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala and complained of his poverty. He explained to the pious man that he was undergoing great distress and preferred death to such a life. The pious man asked him: &ldquo;Are you willing to have your eyes removed in exchange for ten thousand dirhams?&rdquo; The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[482,313],"tags":[410,282],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-glaring-signs-of-the-existence-of-a-creator","category-scattered-pearls","tag-malfoozaat","tag-shukr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}