{"id":22096,"date":"2019-01-27T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/?p=22096"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:42:53","slug":"in-the-evening-beside-the-needy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roshd.com\/en\/in-the-evening-beside-the-needy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hours of Darkness with the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22096\" class=\"elementor elementor-22096 elementor-2026\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14228710 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14228710\" 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-301bc64\" data-id=\"301bc64\" 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-72b29bdd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72b29bdd\" 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>Mu&#8217;alla, who was a servant of Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH), narrates the following story:<\/p><p>&#8220;One rainy night, as Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0left his house, I calmly followed him. Suddenly, something fell out of his hands onto the ground. I approached him and greeted him. He asked:&#8221; Is it you Mu&#8217;alla?&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;Yes&#8221; I replied, &#8220;O son of the messenger of Allah\u00a0(PBUH&amp;HP)&#8221;. He then said:&#8221; Touch the ground and hand me what you find.&#8221; I stretched my hand toward the ground and found a piece of bread. I took it and returned it back to him. It was then that I realized Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0was carrying a sack full of bread, some of which had fallen to the ground. I said: &#8220;My Master! Let me carry the sack.&#8221; He refused:&#8221; No! I am worthier for carrying it; yet, follow me!&#8221;<\/p><p>I followed him until we reached the shelter of\u00a0<em>Bani Sa&#8217;idah<\/em>. The Shelter of\u00a0<em>Bani Sa&#8217;idah<\/em>\u00a0was an area where people gathered to shelter themselves from the extreme daytime heat; and where the poor and needy would sleep there during the night. There, I realized that Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0had left his house in the dark night in order to help the poor.<\/p><p>Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0took loaves of bread out from the sack and placed one or two beside each person, making sure that no one was left out.<\/p><p>On our way back home, I asked the Imam\u00a0(PBUH): &#8220;Do these people whom you help so much know the truth (are they Shiites)?&#8221; Imam Sadiq\u00a0(PBUH)\u00a0replied:&#8221; If they knew the truth (and followed the school of the Ahl al-Bait\u00a0(PBUT)), I would make them my partners\u2026.&#8221;<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>(<strong>Selection taken from:&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Family of Infallibility<\/em>&#8220;, by Taqi Waredi<\/strong>)<\/p><hr \/><p><strong><u>Footnotes:<\/u><\/strong><\/p><p>1-Muntaha al-Aamal fi Tarikh al-Nabi va al-Aal, vol. 2, p. 127<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/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>On a rainy night, Imam Sadiq (PBUH) secretly carried bread to the Shelter of Bani Sa\u2019idah, placing loaves beside each poor person. 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