Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 294
sa. The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa discharged this responsibility in the most excellent manner. (Life of Muḥammad by Hadrat Mirza Bashiruddin Maḥmūd Aḥmad, Khalifatul ra. Masih II, pp. 327-328, Published in UK, 2005). Simple Lifestyle. The Holy Prophet" was extremely simple in the matter of food and drink. He never expressed displeasure with ill-prepared or ill-cooked food. . If he could eat such food he would do so to save the person who had prepared it from disappointment. If, however, a dish was unedible, he merely refrained from partaking of it and never expressed his disapproval of it. When any edible food was presented to him he always shared it with those present. On one occasion someone presented him with some dates. . He looked around and after making an estimate of the number of people present divided the dates equally among them, each of them receiving seven. га sa. Hadrat A'ishah" relates that the Holy Prophet never ate his fill even of barley bread two successive days till he died. . Sa ((Jami' Titmidhi, Abwäbuz Zuhdi ‘an rasulullah, Bab mā ja'a fi ma ishatinnabiyyi wa ahlihi). Sa sa. Since childhood, the Holy Prophet showed a high standard of contentment. Umm Aiman", the wet-nurse of the Holy Prophet" relates: га sa مَا رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيِّ شَكَا صَغِيرًا وَ كَبِيْرًا جُوْعًا وَّ لَا عَطَشَا mā ra-aitunnabiyya shaka saghirañwwa kabiran jau‘añwwa la 'atasha sa. I have never seen the Holy Prophet, from his childhood to the old age, complain 294