Ways of The Prophet (S.A.W)

Contentment and shunning others help

Hadrat Abu Sa’id al-Khudri (Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu) is narrated to have said that some of the Ansars begged from ALLAH’s Messenger (Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) and he gave them something. They later begged from him again and he gave them something till he had spent all that he had. He then said, “What I have will come to me in future I shall never store away from you, but you must understand that begging again and again will not fulfill your needs. Allah has decreed that whosoever abstains from asking others (i.e. from begging Allah helps him and saves him from the indignity of begging and whosoever wants not to let others know his being needy (i.e. does not want to incur the obligation of other) Allah Ta’ala makes him free from coming under the obligation of others. And whosoever endures difficult times with patience, Allah grants him patience (and he realises the meaning of patience) and no one has been given a better or more ample gift than endurance. [Mishkat]