Summary of a Hadith e Mubrakah is that provisions and age increases for being kind to others. Today I will narrate the happenings of a family, for which I am an eye witness myself. The family still visits me. In a posh society of Lahore, the father made a large house with great hanker. To get a beautiful daughter in law for their son, presented it elegantly. They found a daughter in law who subsequently came to their home. She felt uncomfortable due to presence of the in laws in the house. From the beginning she had a nature to live independently and alone. In her own house she used to quarrel with her own mother. Being a daughter of rich parents, there was great wealth in her house. Though her mother tolerated her attitude, yet she would always advise her that this attitude may go with me, but it will be difficult when you will be married and will live with your in laws. She would consider her mother’s advises as flouting. Soon after joining her new home, she started showing inappropriate attitude with her mother in law. She teased her as much as she could. Due to agony and regret, her mother in law suffered from an incurable ailment. She would often say with despair that does raising sons means raising anguish? Does brought up of sons means that we cultivate grief and sorrow around us? There was nobody to listen to her plea. Ultimately she left this world. She was seen off with artificial tears. Now only the father in law was left who was also a source of irritation for her and as to why he is alive? She maintained the same attitude with her father in law as well. He too could not bear this brashness and got sick with incurable illnesses. He also expired after some time. Ultimately the house was empty!
Now Allah’s system of justice came into action. Poverty and deprivation started invading them and scarcity of provisions commenced following. Probably it was the prayers of those elderly people or provisions were destined for them only who had brought a daughter in law with a lot of yearning. A letter from that daughter in law is lying in front of me. It states:
“My financial conditions are so poor that we do not have money to buy petrol and run the motorcycle. We spent 10 day with only three hundred rupees for expenditure. During the last week of March and in the beginning of April, I had only one meal in 10 days. My husband and children at times eat from here and there. But what can I and other kids do at home? There was some old rice lying at home. For continuous seven days, I boiled them and served to my children. I had nothing else which I could have cooked. I was extremely humiliated beyond my imagination and even you cannot envisage that how did I pass those 10 days. My home is suffering from scarcity of provisions and poverty. Provisions and pride have resented away from me. Everyone at home is annoyed at me. My daughters asks me for food which I do not have. I do not have clothes. I wear winter clothes in summers. These are the only clothes I have. Last month me and my husband secretly went to Landa Bazar (a market for used clothes). From there we bought some clothes. Everyone has abandoned us. I now feel the guilt for my mistakes that how I used to tease my mother and father in law and make them cry. This guilt is killing me from within. My heart is perturbed and with broken feelings. All my desires and longings have died. I have only one want left and that is to have food two times a day ! During these 7 days, me and my children thanked Almighty on every bite of the boiled rice as all the light in me has extinguished. I cannot forget these 10 days even in my grave. Now I offer Astaghfar and thank with every breath. I was flying very high, but all of my happiness, satisfaction, bread, every bite of food and the entire life have been eaten away by my bad attitude. Today I cry about that time when I adopted that way of life which was not liked by others but I adored it. Today the same does not appeal me but now I do not appeal anyone. What should I do? I am deeply worried. Poverty, scarcity of provisions and hunger has destroyed the peace of my life. Alas! I should have never done all of this.”
