'' Our Lord ! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter and save us from the torment of the Fire '' [Ameen]
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{in Arab} :->
Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wafil aakhirati hasanatan waqinaa 'athaaban-naar/-
(Surah Al-Baqarah ,verse 201)
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not there, I could not bear to live in the world,even for a day: (1)
the joy of spending a hot summer noon in thirst (while fasting); (2)
the bliss of lying prostrate before Allah Ta'ala in thelater part of
the night; and (3) the pleasure of sitting in company with the pious
beings, whose conversation is interspersed with wise saying, that are
picked like fruits of one's choicefrom a fruit-garden." Aswad Ibne
Yazid Rahmatullah Alaihe took much pains in devotions and fasted in
the intenseheat of summer, so muchso that his complexion became dark.
Alqamah Ibne Qais Rahmatullah alaihe asked him, "Why do you put your
body to so much torture." He replied, "I want it to attain a positon
of honour, on the Day of Resurrection." Story extracted from the book
Fadhail-e-Sadaqaa by Shaikh-ul-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya (RA.).
Hadith: "When a man dies, the angels say, 'What has he sent forward?'
And the people say, 'What has heleft behind?"' (Bayhaqi)
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