Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 433
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 433 food lawful for Satan by not saying " ِ ْ ﺑ ِ ﺴ ِّٰﻢ اH " and I caught his hand as well. By the Being, who controls my life, now the hands of both these persons would join me in partaking the food. Now we would eat together". Then he invoked All a h's name and started to eat. 40 Sometimes Satan attacks through the good deeds. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa kept a watchful eye in such matters and advised goodness according to the circumstances. If someone sought permission to go for Jih a d while his old parents needed looking after, he would forbid him and tell him that looking after his old parents was his Jih a d. When he saw laxity in offering S al a t, he advised that the greater good is to offer S al a t on time. Wherever the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa detected any hint of ostentation, he would forbid it. A bedouin came to Mad i nah. Bedouins usually do not stay in the town and do not even enter the cities without a real need. This bedouin had heard before the fall of Makkah that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa takes a pledge of migration. He requested the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa regarding migration, and enquired if he would have to stay in Mad i nah. H u du r sa replied, "May goodness fall on you, migration is quite tough," (The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa realized that this person with bedouin nature would not keep to the promise of migration. ) Then H u du r sa enquired if he