Todays Hadith The Miraculous Goat The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let them treat their guest generously.” [Bukhari] There was a very pious lady, Fiddhah by name, who lived in a village. People told me that she had a goat that yielded both milk and honey. I was amazed to hear this and I bought a new bowl and went to her house and asked for a share of its blessings. She gave the goat over to me and I milked it. I saw milk and honey coming out of its teats. We drank its milk and ate the honey. When I asked her how she had come to possess such a goat, she narrated an amazing story: “There was a time when we were very poor and we possessed nothing except a she-goat, whose milk was our only source of subsistence. When Eid-ul-Adhaa came around, my husband said to me, ‘We own nothing except this she-goat; let us sacrifice it in the name of Allah.’ I said, ‘We have nothing but its milk to live on. Allah has not made it incumbent (Waajib) upon us to sacrifice an animal in such circumstances. Must we sacrifice it even then?’ My husband acceded to my desire and we deferred our sacrifice till the next Eid-ul-Adhaa. As chance would have it, we had a guest on that very day and I said to my husband, ‘We have been commanded to entertain our guests and we have nothing but this she-goat; let us slaughter it and cook its meat for our guest.’ When my husband prepared to slaughter it, I said to him, ‘Better slaughter it outside the house, behind the wall, lest our children should cry on seeing it slaughtered.’ He went outside with the goat and as soon as he was gone, I saw this she-goat standing on the wall. As it bore a striking resemblance with our she-goat, I thought it was the same goat which had broken loose from my husbands grip. When I went outside, I saw to my great astonishment that he had already slaughtered our goat and was skinning it. I said to him, ‘How strange! Another she-goat, resembling our own, has come into our house!’ When I told him the whole story, he said, ‘It is just possible that Allah has granted us a good recompense for sacrificing our she-goat for the sake of our guest.’ So, this is the she-goat that gives both milk and honey; and it is all due to our entertaining our guest. The lady then said to her children, “My children, this goat feeds (on what grows) in the hearts. So long as your hearts continue to be noble and un-tarnished by evil, its milk will be good. But as soon as your hearts become false, its milk will also turn bad. Guard your hearts against evils; everything will be of benefit to you.” [Fazail-e-Sadaqaat]
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:25:14 +0000
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