Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 141
141 ever - increasing nature and one desire leads to another and this creat es restlessness. ‘ ‘If you reflect you will observe that certainly the contentment and peace in the lives of women who do these good works to attain the pleasure of Allah the Exalted cannot be found in the lives of worldly women. Homes of worldly women hav e restlessness but women who give precedence to faith and make sacrifices in this way have peace in their homes and their marital life is also blissful, their children practice virtues and are attached to the Jama’at. ’ (Address to ladies delivered on 2 Jun e 2012 at Jalsa Salana Germany Published in Al Fazl International 26 October 2012) During his a ddress to ladies at Jalsa Salana UK 2007 Huzoor e Anwer (may Allah be his Helper) gave the example of Hazrat Fatima az - Zahra (may Allah be pleased with her) and s aid: ‘Once Hazrat Ali Murtaza (may Allah be pleased with him) came home and asked Hazrat Fatima (may Allah be pleased with her) to give him something to eat. She told him that it was the third day that there was not even a grain of barley in the house. Ha zrat Ali asked her, O Fatima, why did you not tell me ? I could have made some arrangement! She replied, my father (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) advised me at the time of my leaving [the parental home] that I should never embarrass you by making a demand. Lest your situation is such that I ask for