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If women have the desire
for Deen and good actions then this will naturally be found in their
children. In these times, our children are brought up in an un-Islamic
environment that draws them away from Islam and they show no care or
concern for their duties to Allah . If this is their beginning then
the future results are clear.
Saidina A`ishah’s (RA) spending in the Path of Allah SWT.
Once A`ishah RA received
a gift of two bags containing one hundred thousand (100,000) Dirhams.
She started giving out these among the poor, till by the evening not
a single dirham was left with her. She was fasting that day. Her maid
servant brought her a loaf of bread and a little olive oil for
Iftaar, and
said "I wish we had
kept one dirham for ourselves to get some meat for Iftaar."
A`ishah x said; “Do not be sorry now. If you had told me at that
time, I would have perhaps spared one dirham."
Gifts of this nature were
often received by A`ishah RA from Amir Muawiah , Abdullah bin
Zubair and others, as that was the time of ease and plenty for the
Muslims as country after country fell into their hands. In spite of
this wealth, A`ishah RA led a life of poverty. Look! She gives 100
000 dirhams to the poor, but she does not remember to get some meat
for her own Iftaar.
In our own situation
today, such stories seem to be impossible but to the people who had
understood the Sahabah's (RA) frame of mind, hundreds of such
incidents are quite possible. There are many stories of this nature
reported about A`ishah RA. Once she was fasting and had nothing for
her Iftaar
except one piece of
bread. A poor man came and begged for some food. She asked her maid
to give him that piece of bread. The maid said: "If I give him
the piece of bread, there will be nothing left for your Iftaar''. She
said: "Never mind. Let him have the piece.”
Once she killed a snake.
She saw a vision in her dream, saying: "A`ishah RA , you killed
a Muslim.”
She replied: "How
could a Muslim come into the house of Nabi's SAW widow?"
The vision replied: "But
he had come in Purdah (disguise).” She immediately got up from her
sleep and at once spent twelve thousand (12 000) dirhams in Sadaqah,
which was the blood-money (fine) fixed for a Muslim killed by
mistake. Urwah RA says: "I once saw A`ishah RA spending seventy
thousand (70 000) dirhams in charity, while she herself, was wearing
a dress with patches.”
