Book Name:Wah Kya Baat Ghous e Azam Ki
Dear Islamic brothers, our Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه, alongside his ascetism, piety, sufficing with little, scrupulousness, and spreading the call to righteousness, was also unrivalled in his aiding of the poor and needy. Solving the issues of the less fortunate and destitute was also a part of his blessed character. He never said no to one who sought something and did not send them away empty-handed. He would say, “I investigated all deeds, and I did not find any deed more superior than feeding people; if only it was within my power to feed the poor.”[1]
Shaykh ꜤAbdullah al-Jubāˈī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه states:
Once, Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه said to me, “According to me, feeding the hungry and meeting people with good manners are perfect and superior deeds.” Then he said, “Money does not remain within my possession; if one thousand dirhams came to me in the morning, not even one dirham would remain by the evening, for I would distribute them among the poor and needy, and feed the hungry.”[2]
Let us listen to a beautiful account about Shaykh ꜤAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī’s generosity and his helping of the poor.
His son, Sayyid ꜤAbd al-Razzāq al-Qādirī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه mentions:
After my father become well-known, he only performed Hajj once. During this journey I held the reigns of his riding animal. When we reached a city to the south of Baghdad, he instructed us to find the poorest home. We saw a deserted area which had