Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq — Page 118
118 HADRAT ABU BAKR 118 Hadrat ‘Umar ra relates, “I used to help an elderly blind lady in Mad i nah and used to bring water for her. But when I would go to her to do this, some other person had come and done it already. One day, I kept watch and I saw that it was Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra who brought the water, even though he was the Khalifah and I said, “It was Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra who came every day and exceeded me in good works!” There was an orphan girl who lived next door to him. Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra used to milk her goats for her. When Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra became the Khalifah, the girl asked, “Who will milk my goats now?” He replied, “I will milk them. I wish to continue to do whatever service I did before. ” And so he continued to milk the goats. There is mention of an elderly woman in history whom Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra used to visit every day. When Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra failed to show up one day, she was convinced that he had passed away. Referring to this extraordinary example of service to others, the Promised Messiah as says, “The day that Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra passed away, this woman began to say that Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra had died. People asked her how she knew, and she responded by saying, ‘He used to bring me h alwa (sweet dish)