Sahaba - The Blessed

under his blessed overcoat, too. The next comer was Imâm-i-
Hasan. He took him to his one side; and taking the final comer,
Imâm-i-Husayn, to his other side, he stated “Here, these are my
Ahl-i-bayt.” These blessed people are also called Âl-i-Abâ or Âli-Rasûl
‘ridwânullahi ’alaihim ajma’în’.
It is related as follows in the ninth episode in the two hundred
and forty-first [241] page of the same book: Imâm-i-Hasan and
Imâm-i-Husayn ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’ became ill at a very young
age. When the children recovered health, their father and their
mother Fâtimatuzzahrâ and their servant Fidda began to fast. The
first day, they were about to have (the dinner called) iftâr [1] , when
some orphans came to the door. Giving all the food to the orphans,
they began the next day’s fast without eating anything. The second
day’s food also was dispensed with, this time to some very poor
people who had knocked on the door at the same hour as the
orphans had done the previous evening and asked for something
to eat “for Allah’s sake.” So the third day’s fasting began, hungry
as they were. The third evening’s visitors were some slaves, who,
too, were given all the day’s food lest they should go back emptyhanded.
Upon this, an âyat came down; it purported, “These
people have kept their vows. With the fear of the Rising Day,
which is long and perpetual, they have given their food which they
liked so much and hungered so strongly for to very poor people, to
orphans and slaves. They said, ‘It is for the sake of Allah that we
give this food to you to eat. We expect nothing in the name of
gratitude on your part. Nor do we demand anything in return.’
Therefore, Janâb-i-Haqq (Allâhu ta’âlâ) has blessed them with the
drink called sharâb-i-tahûr (purest drink).”
Affection towards the Ahl-i-bayt-i-nabawî causes salvation at
the time of death, which means to migrate to the Hereafter with
îmân (as a Believer). Sarwar-i-’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
states in a hadîth-i-sherîf, “My Ahl-i-bayt are like Nûh’s (Noah’s)
‘alaihis-salâm’ ark. He who follows them will attain salvation. He
who lags behind will perish.”
The Ahl-i-bayt-i-nabawî have myriad virtues and perfections,
which would cost an endless list to attempt to make a tally of. It is
beyond the human power to tell about them or to praise them. The
[1] Iftâr means the dinner that you eat when you break fast after sunset.
There is detailed information about fasting in the second chapter of
the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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