{"id":17445,"date":"2022-10-15T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2022-10-15T05:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T04:11:47","slug":"imam-jafar-al-sadiq-s-social-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/17445\/imam-jafar-al-sadiq-s-social-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) and His Social Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shortage of Wheat<\/strong><br \/>\nA shortage of wheat took place in Madina. A bewilderment and anxiety overtook the people. Anyone who had not stored wheat for years use would try hard to provide and stock it. At the same time, the poor have-nots were forced to buy there every day needed wheat from the market.<br \/>\nOne day Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) asked his servant &#8220;Motab,&#8221; &#8220;Do we have wheat in the house this year? Motab replied, &#8220;Yes we have got wheat to meet the requirement of a few months.&#8221; Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) said, &#8220;Take that to the market and surrender it to the people and sell it.&#8221; Motab said, &#8220;Oh my Lord! Wheat is scarce in Madina, if I sell it purchasing wheat after that will be difficult and we will face hardship and will be forced to buy it on a higher cost.&#8221; Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) said, &#8220;Do what I have said, hereafter do purchase the bread of the house like the have-nots of Madina, do each day. Because the bread of my house should not have any difference with that of the masses although you may buy it on a higher rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Greedy Afflicted and the Thankful Poor<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of the friends of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) says, we were busy taking grapes in Mina along with the Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S). An afflicted one come and asked for help. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) gave him a bunch of grapes. The man did not take that and demanded money. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) said, &#8220;God may provide you that.&#8221; The afflicted man walked a few steps and turned back and requested the Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) to give him the grapes. He said, &#8220;may God provide you that&#8221; and the man went back.<br \/>\nAt the same time another poor man came and asked the Imam for help. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) gave him a bunch of grapes. The man took them and thanked God. Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) gave him a handful of grapes. The man took that and again thanked God, for his boon. For the third time, Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S) gave him twenty dirhams and the fourth time, gave him his shirt. The man took all and went back praying for Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A.S).<\/p>\n<p>source:<a href=\"http:\/\/alhassanain.org\/english\/?com=content&amp;id=1757\"> alhassanain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortage of Wheat A shortage of wheat took place in Madina. A bewilderment and anxiety overtook the people. Anyone who had not stored wheat for years use would try hard to provide and stock it. At the same time, the poor have-nots were forced to buy there every day needed wheat from the market. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7456],"tags":[13763,8154,14551,7573,9546,19669],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-infallibles","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-allah","tag-ethics","tag-imam-ali","tag-islam","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}