Once there was a very poor fisher who had a pious and religious friend. One day he came to that friend and told him that he did not know what to do since he was so poor and everyday when he went to the ocean there was never a fish and so he and his family had nothing to eat. The friend said he would go with him to fish together, as they arrived at the ocean the friend told the fisher to pray two Raka’a together and to make Du’a. After they did so the fisher caught a very big fish and was very very happy. He went to the city to sell the fish so that he then could buy food for his family. On his way back home with the money in his pocket he saw a woman with her children standing at the side of a street crying. He went over and asked why they were crying as the woman said that she was so poor and had nothing to feed her children with. The man thought to himself that this woman with her children was so much poorer than he and so he decided to give all his money to that woman.
As she had left he realised that now he had nothing to bring to his family and he felt so ashamed that he thought it would be better if he never returned to his home.
As he walked through the street without a place to go he suddenly found 3000 Rial on the street, he returned immediately to his family and started investing his money, he became a very rich man and since he never forgot ere he came from he donated every single day 1000 Rial.
One day, the fisher was an old man now, he had a dream.
It was judgement day and his situation seemed to be very bad and his balance that weighs the good and the bad deeds was showing that he had not done many good things in his live.
Allah asked him: aren’t there any good things you did in your life?
He answered: yes, I donated 1000 Rial every day
Allah said: yes, I see, but that is not enough to save you, let’s have a look in your book to see if we can find anything else.
The man was desperate and saw his self already going to hell while the angels searched in his book of live to find any good things he did.
Then Allah seemed to had found something and said: You don’t have to fear hell, your home will be paradise.
Do you want to know what saved him and what had more value than donating 1000 Rial every single day?
It was the tears the fisher had cried when he had seen the poor woman with her children.
These tears and the compassion he felt was what brought this man to paradise.
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