A
certain person asked A'ishah (Radhiyallaho anha):
"Tell
me something noteworthy concerning the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe
wasallam)."
She
answered:
"There was nothing which was not unusual about
him. Everything he did was noteworthy. One night he came and lay down with me.
After sometime, he got up saying, 'Now let me pray to my Lord, the
Sustainer."
With
this, he stood up in Salaat, humbling himself before his Creator with such
sincerity that tears rolled down his cheeks to his beard and on to his breast.
He then bowed for Ruku' and Sajdah, and his tears flowed down as fast as before
and after raising his head from his Sajdah, he continued weeping in this manner
till Hadhrat Bilal (Radhiyal-laho anha) announced the approach of Fajr. I
pleaded with him:
"O, Prophet of Allah! you are sinless, as Allah
has in His munificence forgiven your each and every sin (even if committed) in
the past and which may happen in the life to come (XLVIII: 2) and still you
grieve so much". He replied: Why, then, should I not be a grate-ful slave
of Allah? Then he added, 'Why should I not be praying like this when Allah has
today revealed to me these verses?'
`Lo! in the creation of the Heavens and the Earth,
and in the difference of night and day, are tokens (of His Sovereignty) for men
of understanding, such as remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining ..
(III: 190-191)' "
It
has been reported in many Ahadith that the Prophet's feet would get swollen
because of his very long rakaats in Salaat; people tried to reason with him:
"O, Prophet of Allah! You are sinless and still
you labor so hard!"
He
would reply: "Should I not be a grateful slave of my Allah, then?"
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