1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

lessed eyes.
Fakhr-i âlam (sall-Allahu ’alaihi wa sallam) was the most
generous of human beings. He has never been heard to say, “I
don’t have,” about something asked from him. If he had the
thing asked for, he gave it; if he didn’t have it, he didn’t answer.
The Prophet had so many great attributes and had done so
many favours for so many people that the Byzantine emperors
and the Persian shahs could not do enough to compete with
him. But he himself liked to live in inconvenience. He led such a
life that he would not even remember to eat or drink. He never
used words like “Bring something to eat,” or “Cook such and
such food.” He used to eat when they brought the meal to him,
and he used to accept whatever fruit they gave him. Sometimes
he ate very little for months, and he liked hunger. And
sometimes he ate much. He used to eat with three fingers. He
didn’t drink water after meals. He used to drink water while
sitting. When he ate with others, he used to stop eating after
everybody had finished. He used to accept presents from
everybody. In response to someone who had brought him a
present, he used to give much more.
Rasûlullah, together with twelve thousand heroes, after
departing from Medina on the tenth day of Ramadân,
conquered Mecca on Thursday, the twentieth of Ramadân, in
the eighth year of the Hegira. On the following day, Friday,
when reciting the khutbah, he had a black turban around his
blessed head. After staying eighteen days in Mecca, he went to
Hunayn. He used to let the end of his turban hang down. He
used to say, “The turban distinguishes Muslims from
disbelievers.” It was his habit to wear various clothes. When
ambassadors from foreign countries came, he used to adorn
himself. That is, he used to wear precious and beautiful clothes
and expose his beautiful face. First, he used to have a gold
ring, but later he wore a ring with an agete. He used his rign as
a seal. “Muhammadun Rasûlullah” was written on his ring. It is
not permissible for men to wear gold rings in all four madhhabs.
His bed was made of leather filled with date tree shredding.
Sometimes he laid on his bed and sometimes on the leather
laid on the ground, on a mat and sometimes on dry soil. He laid
on his right side putting his blessed palm under his right cheek.
Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) didn’t accept zakât,
and he didn’t eat such things as raw onions or garlic, and he
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