he would say:

‘O Allah, Lord of Gabriel, Michael, and Isrāfīl, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen, You judge between Your servants concerning that over which they differ. Guide me, by Your permission, to the truth concerning which they have differed. Indeed, You guide whom You will to a straight path.’”

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As for food and clothing, the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. His practice in eating was to eat whatever was readily available if he desired it. He would neither reject what was available nor go to trouble to obtain what was not. If bread and meat were served, he ate them; if fruit, bread, and meat were served, he ate them. If only dates or only bread were served, he ate that. If sweets or honey were served, he ate those too. His favourite drinks were sweet and cool, and he used to eat cucumbers with fresh dates.

When two kinds of food were served, he would not say, “I will not eat two kinds,” nor would he abstain from food because it was delicious or sweet. Sometimes two or three months would pass without a fire being lit in his home, and they would subsist on nothing but dates and water. At times he would tie a stone against his stomach because of hunger. He never found fault with food: if he desired it, he ate it; otherwise, he left it. Food was also eaten at his