‘Not so!’…‘I did not try him with wealth to honour him (karāma), nor did I try him with poverty to make him despicable to Me (hawān)’. It has been related that Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī, who was fasting on returning home to his family after the night prayer, said: ‘Give me some supper.’ They answered that they did not have anything to give him for supper. He asked, ‘Why are you sitting in the dark?’ They replied, ‘We don’t have any oil with which to light the lamp.’He said:Then he wept for joy and continued to do so until morning saying, ‘O God! Does someone like me get left without supper and without light? O Master, which of my hands was responsible for this?’ His words, Exalted is He:
