Generous Hospitality Towards the Guests.

“Let him who believes in AllahSWT and the Last Day be generous to his guest.”—Bukhari and Muslim

Imam Hassan {R} was the most hospitable person. His dinner cloth was very vast. The poor, the deprived, travelers and orphans dined on his food spread.

He had the best possible food cooked for the guests, but he never partook anything from it. His diet consisted of that same barley bread and salt. 

One day he had a visitor. He ordered the servant to lay the food. When the person sat to eat, the Imam saw him eating one morsel and keeping one morsel aside.

The Imam said:

“It seems that you have some children. But eat comfortably. By the Grace of AllahSWT, there is sufficient food here. You will be given to take away as much as you want.”

The man responded. He said:

“I am a traveler and wife and children do not accompany me but I have seen a dervish in the mosque eating chaff-mixed barley flour. I am keeping these morsels for him.”

Imam Hassan {R} began to weep and said:

“Do not consider him a dervish. He is our respected father, Ali Ibn Abi Talib {R}. He has divorced the world.”

My question today is: Do you have the heart to satisfy your guests even if it extends to include their immediate family?

May AllahSWT soften our heart and enlarge our purse for His cause. Aameen.

Reference: Morals and Manners of the household of the Prophet {S}.