{"id":21507,"date":"2019-01-26T21:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/?p=21507"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:28:24","slug":"repaying-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/en\/repaying-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Compensating Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sayyid Murtada in his book \u201cUyun al-Mu\u2019jizat\u201d has narrated from Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0that he said:<\/p>

\u201cThe people of Kufa went to Amir al-Mu\u2019minin, Imam Ali\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0and complained about drought and having no rain. They said to the Imam\u00a0(PBUH),\u201d Ask Allah to send us rain\u201d.<\/p>

Amir al-Mu\u2019minin\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0said to Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH),\u201d Go and ask Allah to send them rain\u201d.<\/p>

Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0stood up, praised Allah\u00a0(SWT), sent blessings upon the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&HP), and then prayed the following:<\/p>

\u201cO Lord! O One Who bestows goods and descends bounties! Order the blessed rains of the sky to shower upon us continuously, and quench our thirst with lots of rain; a vast, plentiful, glorious, granular, and flowing rain; so that You remove weakness from among Your servants and revive Your dead cities. Amen, O Lord of the universe!\u201d<\/p>

Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0had not finished his prayer while it started to rain. It rained so much that some of the Bedouins who had come from outside Kufa said,\u201d We saw the rivers and springs full of water!\u201d\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>

That day passed and Allah\u00a0(SWT)\u00a0made the people of Kufa owing to Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0by granting his prayers. He sent His rain of mercy upon the people of Kufa through the prayer of Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH). Years passed until Muharram of year 63 AH when the people of Kufa confronted Imam Hussain\u00a0(PBUH). However, this time, according to what history has narrated, the people of Kufa and Syria martyred the grandson of the Messenger of Allah\u00a0(PBUH&HP),\u00a0his family, and his companions while they had abandoned even his infant from\u00a0a single drop of water<\/strong>!<\/p>

And this question will always be repeated throughout the history that \u201cIs there any reward for good other than good?\u00a0[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>

(The above is a selection taken from \u201cUyun al-Mu\u2019jizat<\/em>\u201d, by Allamah Shaykh Hussain Abdul Wahhab (with some additions))<\/strong><\/p>

Footnotes:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>

[1]<\/a> Uyun al-Mu\u2019jizat, p. 64; Bihar al-Anwar, vol. ,p. 187<\/p>

[2]<\/a> The Holy Quran (55, 60)<\/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":"

Imam Hussain (PBUH) once prayed for rain for the people of Kufa, and Allah answered his supplication instantly, blessing them with abundant rainfall. Yet years later, those same people denied him and his family even a drop of water in Karbala. 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