{"id":16469,"date":"2019-01-27T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/sympathetic-to-people\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:01:47","slug":"sympathetic-to-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/en\/sympathetic-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Sympathetic to People"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16469\" class=\"elementor elementor-16469 elementor-2008\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2bd4eed8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2bd4eed8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1114160f\" data-id=\"1114160f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19d6c07e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"19d6c07e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The price of wheat and bread was rising day by day in Media. Citizens were therefore overtaken by\u00a0bewilderment and anxiety. Anyone who had not stored wheat for the year use would try hard to provide and stock it, and those who had enough were conserving their supply.\u00a0There were also the poor who needed to purchase their wheat from bazaar on\u00a0day to day basis.<\/p><p>Imam Ja&#8217;far al-Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0called the man in-charge of his house, named Muattab and asked him: \u201cHow much wheat do we have at present?\u201d<\/p><p>Muattab replied: \u201cSir, we have enough to last us for several months.\u201d<\/p><p>\u00a0\u201cTake it to the bazaar and offer all for sale to the people\u201d, instructed the Imam.<\/p><p>\u201cOh! Son of the Prophet! Wheat is very scarce in Medina. If we sell our stock, perhaps it would be impossible to purchase later.\u201d advised the care-taker.<\/p><p>&#8221;Do as I have said (Sell all our stock to the people).\u201d replied Imam.<\/p><p>Muattab, did as he was told and sold all the wheat. He reported the result to his master.<\/p><p>Next, the Imam ordered him: \u201cHenceforth, buy the requirement of his house on day to day basis. The bread of my household must not be different from that of the masses. The bread from now must be\u00a0<strong>half wheat<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>half barley<\/strong>. By the grace of Almighty I have the strength to easily provide my house with bread made from pure wheat. However, I am not doing so, because I want to keep my life in a moderate status before Allah for compassionating,\u00a0<strong>assisting people<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>seeking equality<\/strong>\u00a0with them in my household\u2019s expenses.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p><p><strong>(The above is a selection taken from, \u201c<em>Anecdotes of Pious Men<\/em>\u201d, by\u00a0the Martyr Scholar Murtada\u00a0Mutahhari)<\/strong><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><u>Footnotes:<\/u><\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 47, p. 59<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a wheat shortage in Medina, Imam Sadiq (PBUH) sold his household\u2019s stored wheat and instructed his caretaker to buy daily like others, mixing wheat with barley for bread. 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