{"id":411,"date":"2014-11-27T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:47:27","slug":"a-pious-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/a-pious-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pious Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-259\" src=\"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"323\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A Pious Couple<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0A pious man, by the name of Shah ibn Shuja Kirmani (Rahmatullah Alaih), abandoned his kingship and adopted the path of self-reformation. He received a proposal for his daughter from another ruler, but rejected it. Upon seeing a poor, pious young man offering Salah in a beautiful manner, he married her to him instead. When she arrived at the home of her husband, she noticed a dry piece of bread which was hidden in a water-pot and asked \u201cWhat is this?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The young man replied, \u201cThis is the left-over food from last night. I have kept it so that I may begin my fast with it.\u201d Upon hearing this, she turned to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The young man remarked, \u201cI knew from the outset that a king\u2019s daughter would not be happy with my poverty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The girl answered, \u201cI am not displeased with your poverty, rather, that you don\u2019t have trust in Allah. I am surprised, as my father informed me that you were a virtuous young man. How can a person, who does not place his trust in Allah, be virtuous and pious?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The young man apologized, but she said to him, \u201cI do not want to hear apologies. Either I or the bread remains in this house.\u201d He immediately gave the bread out in charity and she stayed with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>While the piety of the wife was of an exceedingly tall order, the moral of the anecdote is of key importance: marriage partners chosen only for piety and virtue, draw one closer to Allah Ta\u2019ala, while thos chosen only for wealth, beauty or status can easily lead one astray.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pearls from the path (Moulana Afzal Ismail)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A Pious Couple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[135,172],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-marriage-2","tag-pious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}