In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful

When I was a child, more than I am now, my naughtiness was way more than today …

One day I used to break the neighbor’s window … the boy next door’s head another day!

My uncle, tired of all my naughtiness, told me one morning …

Take this money and do some work, profit-making!  

His suggestion was to sell cookies to the neighborhood kids … I was so excited … I took the money and bought ten packs of cookies from the wholesaler. Then I got a fruit box, turned it upside down and put the cookies on it and sat in the entrance to our alley … that was my first business …

The first day nothing much happened and I just sat there doing nothing … consider a ten year old boy sitting all morning and staring at cookies while getting hungry too …

It is only natural that he may be tempted and pinch the cookies …

It was noon … father came home from work for lunch and saw me, the new breadwinner of the house! He smiled, came closer and asked me how was I doing and how much had I sold till then?

I told him that I had bought the cookies for three Tomans each and was selling them for five Tomans … I was lying … I had bought each pack for 1.5 Tomans and was selling for two Tomans!

My dad, hearing this, told me to give him one pack of cookies. So I played it smart … I gave him the pack I had already pinched when I was hungry …

Father looked at the pack of cookies, it seemed he wanted to say some thing but he didn’t … with his other hand he gave me ten Tomans … I stood on my feet, searched my pockets and said that I didn’t have five Tomans to give him …

Dad said that it was OK and that we were going to take care of it later but this later never came …

I was at my cookie stand till afternoon … then I went home and took the pack of cookies I had sold dad and ate it …

Today that I am a father and have a naughty son of my own, I know that that day dad knew the price of the cookies, he knew that I was selling the cookies for two Tomans … he knew that I had the five Tomans to give him … he knew that I had given him the pack which I had pinched … and he knew that I was going to eat the cookies later too …

And I know today that dad had given the money to my uncle to give me … I know today that this was so that I may stop doing wrong things … I know today that dad wanted to give me a headstart …

Imam Musa Kazim (SBUH) has said that Rajab is the name of a stream in Heaven which is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey; any one fasting one day in month of Rajab Allah will give him a drink of that stream …

I’ve sometimes wondered what kind of an equation is this!

For only “one” day of fasting in the month of Rajab, Allah will take the person to Heaven and give him a drink of the Rajab stream!

Besides all graceful answers given for this question … I think also Allah wants us to stop wrong doings and give us a headstart in this Rajab … for, Allah knows everything including the value of just “one” day of fasting!

Considering this … it would be so absurd to break our neighbor’s window in place of shortweighting to Allah!!!