84. Ease After Hardship
The Sayyid has also narrated from Alam ul-Huda Malairi, that when he was studying religion in Najaf al-Ashraf, he was in financial trouble for some days, till one day he had no money even to buy provisions for his family.
He says: I came out of the house anxiously and went to the market and walked through the whole street, but did not explain my circumstances to anyone. Then I said to myself that it is inappropriate to roam in the market like this. So I came out from there and entered a lane and went to the house of Hajj Saeed. Suddenly I decried Hajj Sayyid Murtaza Kashmiri. When he reached me he initiated the conversation:
What has happened to you; your grandfather, Amir ul-Mu’minin ('a) used to eat barley bread and sometimes he had nothing to kill his hunger for two days at a stretch. He reminded me about some patience testing circumstances of the Imam and said: Be patient, indeed you will get relief in sustenance. One should bear hardships and problems in Najaf; after that he dropped some coins in my pocket and said: Neither count them nor tell anyone about them. Spend as much as you like from it. Then he bid farewell to me and went away.
I came to the market and bought food items from the money and took them home. I continued to purchase provisions in this way for some time. Then one day I said: Since this money is not ending, I must utilize it to provide some luxuries to my family. Thus, that day I purchased some mutton. When my wife observed this, she said: It seems that you have got some monetary ease; can you buy me a new dress? So I went to the market and bought cloth and paid from the money in my pocket by placing some coins before the shopkeeper and telling him to take the cost of cloth. He said the money was exact.
This went on for a year. One day I forgot to remove the money before leaving my clothes for washing and was out the day long. My son found the money and used it for household expenses of that day and it was sufficient, but afterwards this system ended.
It is also necessary to mention that giving increase in anything is a matter, which is not only possible by the Almighty Allah; on the contrary it is very easy for Him. Moreover, the miraculous behavior of Aga Sayyid Murtaza Kashmiri and his meeting Hazrat Hujjat are facts, which are well known among scholars of Najaf al-Ashraf.