The Story Of Miqdad And The Goat

[Music] this is very unique story that happened to one of the sahaba of navi he was he said myself and my two companions we had nothing to eat so we went you know if you're from the out of the country of a muslim country you will know when the person is hinting for something that is in need so he said we went and we presented ourselves to the people we didn't want to say please feed us that you don't really tell people that you in need however you hint you know it's not right but you say i'm in need please give me some this is not how a movement should behave so we present ourselves to the people ask them questions but nobody understood what we wanted nobody wanted to fear us so we went to the messenger of allah and we say ya rasulullah we are dying out of hunger we are almost blind and deaf we cannot feel or see or hardly hear anything because of hunger subhan allah so help us or messenger of allah special case so the messenger of allah said come so he took them and he said do you see these three goats were gifts now all of us every night we were sure the milk of these goats so you guys take care of them milk them and leave my share for me every night so that said it was fine alhamdulillah it was normal but one night he said one night shaytan came to me and he said look it's after isha and the messenger of allah perhaps is with some of the ansar and they probably fed him so whatever milk that left for the messenger of allah you drink it shaytan is very tricky right he fools all the time he say it's yours it's gonna go bad anyway you know it's gonna be old so you drink so i say to myself well he's right rasool allah is gonna come back with full stomach and he's going to go to his houses and he's not going to even ask about the milk so bismillah so he had to drink the milk he said as soon as i finished the milk shaytan said to me woe to you what have you done now rasulullah will come through one of these doors and then when he sees that there's no milk he will make dura against the person who drunk his milk so you're doomed so he says subhanallah i felt so sad you know i'm grieving that i'm sitting there i'm so sad and he said whatever i have you have a little garment that when i cover my head my feet show and when i cover my feet my head show so he says subhanallah i'm struggling with this rasool allah just walked through the door so i said to myself you are doomed so the messenger of allah went to the container he lifted is empty so he stood up and he raised his hand and said i a certain that rasulullah will curse me and not only me me and my children were all going to be doomed the message of allah instead of making dua against the person he said feed whoever feeds us and provide dreams whatever provides drinks for us he said subhan allah rasool allah he walked away and i said well i would not miss that so what did he do he took a dagger and he went to the goat to start at the best of the three and feed the messenger of allah so he can win the dua of the messenger of allah subhanallah so he said i went and before i slaughtered i realized that out of all the goats i fall again with milk i say subhanallah i check the second one is full third one is ready masha'allah so i run to the one of the house of the messenger of allah and i say give me the biggest container that you have so i came and i milked all of them until it was full so i went back to the messenger of allah and he said drink where did he get this from he said don't worry messenger of allah drink you know don't worry just drink he said so he said yes bismillah he drank the milk and then he gave it back to no no no finish you drink more he said finally he gave it to himself i cannot have you anymore so i drank some of it he said then when i finished when he finished i start laughing out loud i could not stand up for my life he said then the messenger of allah said yeah this is one of your tricks what have you done then i told the messenger of allah exactly what happened so he said to me look at the generosity messenger of allah subhanallah why don't you tell us that we can give our brothers some of that milk i said to him he had rasulullah he had enough milk and he had enough enough milk i don't care who else goes angry but look at the messenger of allah you know he didn't say allah whoever took that milk destroy him or allah make him blind oh allah give him this and that no he made the rafah so the messenger of allah was the most generous person there there's the prosperity paradox is a pretty well established social phenomenon that having more money doesn't make you happy after a certain point middle class prosperity tends to actually make people happier than other people but the more money you get it doesn't make you happier it actually often has the opposite effect because the richer you get the more enviers you have the less you can trust people because everybody wants something from them and then the other thing the prophet saw is in him said contentment is a treasure that's inexhaustible the prophet chose to live a humble life over he could have had all the wealth he wanted he was offered mountains of gold he chose to live as a person of zoho for his poor people the prophet a man once said to him i love you and the prophet said think about what you're saying and he said he said it three times and then the prophet said get ready for poverty because those who really love me poverty comes to them quicker than a flood reaches its destination and one argument is its spiritual poverty but the prophet was giving money away constantly he didn't sleep with money in his house one of the things about islam that i love is that it that historically it created poverty with dignity one of the things that we have in in the west is the complete undignified state of poor people but you know that that's poverty there's nothing wrong with with in in islam but there's something wrong with mezcana which is abject poverty there's there's no shame in being poor many many poor people in the world that are beautiful people i i've lived in the poorest countries in the world when i was in moritania and i lived with bedouin one night we we we were with one of the scholars there we were with one of the scholars and he said when you get to israel you might have trouble and if you do just go a few uh 100 meters uh to your right and inshallah you'll find some help and we left his encampment when we got to a place called isbir our our truck got sunk in the mud because it had been raining it was pitch dark and there was a bedouin man there this was probably about 10 30 11 o'clock at night he went and he took a sheep and he slaughtered it and cooked it for us and then it was raining and there was a lot of wind that night he was holding the rakisa of his tent you know the main pillar when we woke up at fajr he was still there holding it he had spent the whole night holding that pillar up because he didn't want it to fall on us that is karma and karma and karama are related generosity and dignity and some of the most generous people i've ever experienced in my life are poor people and and we do them a great injustice by not looking to their needs to zachary you

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Published: Thu Aug 20 2020