Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Islamic Charity Story: Charity even in the state of grief

It has been related by Allamah Seyyid Muhammed Al Husseini Al Milaani,
that Seyyid Abdullah Al Shiraazi once told him that a young scholar in
the city of Najaf once came to the great Marja Seyyid Abil Hassan Al
Isfahani, and asked him to give him some money as a help to get
married.
The great Marja promised to help him the next day. Now it so happened
that within that day the great Marja's son was assassinated while
praying behind his father in the congregational prayer. This incident
is famous and well known in Najaf.
The following day during the burial ceremony, the great Marja was seen
to be looking around as if searching for someone. His followers
thought that he was mentally disturbed since it was an odd behavior
portrayed by the Marja as it was a time of poignant sadness for the
Seyyid at the sad demise of his son.
As he kept looking around they saw him calling somebody, and found a
young man approaching the Marja and they then saw the Marja give a bag
of gold coins to the young man as he had promised to do so, and did
not forget this even though he was surrounded with grief.

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