Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

Fear would grasp a person who saw Rasûlullah suddenly. If he
hadn’t behaved mildly, no one could have sat near him, no one
could have had the strength to listen to him, owing to his manners
of prophethood. However, out of embarrassment, he himself
would never look at anybody in the face with his blessed eyes.
Fakhr-i ’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’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 would give it; if he didn’t have it, he wouldn’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 offered to 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 would drink water sitting. When he ate with
others, he used to stop eating after everybody had finished. He
used to accept presents from anybody. 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 would adorn himself. That is, he would wear valuable and
beautiful clothes and expose his beautiful face. Formerly, he used
to have a gold ring, but later he wore a ring with an agate. He used
his ring as a seal. “Muhammadun Rasûlullah” was written on his
ring. In all four Madhhabs it is not permissible for men to wear
gold rings. His bed was made of leather filled with date tree
shredding. Sometimes he slept on this bed and sometimes on
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’ did not accept zakât,
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