Two loaves

 .  * Two loaves *

 A thought provoking and inspiring event

 Will definitely take some time to read

 A man named Abu Nasr al-Sayyad was living in poverty with his wife and a child.

 One day he was leaving his wife and child exhausted with hunger and weeping in the house and was going to steal from the grief that a religious scholar met him on the way.

 It happened to Ahmad ibn Miskin, whom Abu Nasr saw, and said: O Shaykh!

 The Sheikh said, "Follow me. We are both walking on the sea."

 When he reached the sea, Shaykh Sahib asked him to offer two rak'ats of supererogatory prayers.

 Sheikh Sahib said to Abu Nasr that for the first time a big fish was caught in the net and came out.

 Go and sell this fish and use the proceeds to buy some food for your family.

 Abu Nasr went to the city and used the proceeds from the sale of fish to buy a minced meat and a sweet pratha.

 And he went straight to Shaykh Ahmad ibn Miskin and asked him to accept some of these prayers.

 Sheikh Sahib said that if you had thrown a net for your food, no fish would have been caught

 I did good to you as if it were for my own good, not for a reward, so take this pratha and feed your family.

 Abu Nasr was happily on his way home when he saw a hungry woman weeping on the road, with her son sitting beside her.

 Abu Nasr looked at the parathas in his hands and said to himself what is the difference between this woman and her child and her own child and wife

 The matter is the same, they are also hungry and they are also hungry.

 He looked into the woman's eyes and could not see her tears and bowed his head

 Pointing to the old woman, he said, "Take this."

 Eat yourself and feed your son too

 Happiness spread on the woman's face and a smile spread on her son's face

 Abu Nasr walked back to his home with a sad heart, wondering how he would cope with his hungry wife and son.

 On the way home he saw a preacher

 Someone was saying that whoever joins him with Abu Nasr.

 He said to Abu Nasr, "Your father had entrusted me with thirty thousand dirhams twenty years ago today."

 But he did not say what to do with the money

 Ever since your father died I have been looking for someone to meet me

 Today I have found you, so take this thirty thousand dirhams

 This is your father's property

 Abu Nasr says, "I sat down and became rich."

 I built many houses and my business spread. I used to give thousands of dirhams in charity in one go. I used to give charity in the name of Allah.  I have become a charitable person

 Once I dreamed that the day of reckoning had come and the scales had been set in the field

 The preacher called for Abu Nasr to be brought and his sins and rewards to be weighed

 He says: My good deeds were placed on one side and my sins on the other side, so the scale of sins was heavy.

 I asked, "Where are all my alms that I used to give in the way of Allah?"

 Weighing people put my alms in the scales of good deeds. Under every alms of thousands of dirhams, the lust of the soul was coated with my desire for self-expression and hypocrisy which made these alms even lighter than cotton.  The scales were still heavy

 I cried and said, "Oh, how can I be saved?"

 The preacher heard me and then asked

 Is there any other way to do it?

 I heard a floor saying yes there are two parathas given by him which have not been weighed yet.

 They were placed on two old scales, and the scales of good deeds must have been lifted, but they were neither equal nor greater.

 The preacher then asked, "Is there anything else?"  The angel replied, "Yes, there is something left for him." The preacher asked, "What is that?"  Said the tears of the woman to whom he had given his two prathas

 The tears of a woman were poured into the scales of virtue, whose weight like a mountain made the scales of virtues equal to the scales of sins.

 Abu Nasr says, "My heart rejoices that now you will be saved."

 The preacher asked, "Anything else?"

 The angel said yes

 The baby's smile is still to be seen

 Which came on his face while taking pratha

 The smile is on the scales. The scales of good deeds have become heavier and heavier.

 Abu Nasr says: My sleep has opened my eyes and I said to myself: O Abu Nasr, today is not your great charity but

 Today your 2 loaves have saved you.