Pleasant Stories & Anecdotes — Page 24
24 Features of a Physician What difference does it make whether a physician makes a mis- take or is unsuccessful in treating someone? His job was to show empathy, not to fight destiny. It is narrated that a physician would put on a veil while going to a graveyard. Somebody asked him, ‘Why do you do so?’ The physician replied that all those people had died from his prescriptions. (Malf ūzā t, vol. 9, p. 340) Annals of a Jew Embracing Islam There is a story about a Jew named Abul-Khair who was a well- known physician. Once he was passing through a town alley when he heard somebody reciting: 1 َ ن �ُۡو ن �َ ت �ۡ ن �ُ ي � َ َّا و َ ھُم ۡ ل ُوۡلُوۡۤا اٰم�َن ت �َّ ي ۡرَکُوۡۤا ا�َ ن ۡ � �ُّت ي � ۡ ن �ََّاس ُ ا َ ال�ن ج اَحَس�ِ Although he was a Jew, he leaned against a wall with his hands, bowed his head and started crying. Afterwards, he went home and while asleep, he dreamt that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) visited him and said, ‘O Abul- Khair, it is strange that a person with dignity and grace like you 1. Do men think that they will be left alone because they say, ‘We believe,’ and they will not be tried? ( S u rah al-‘Ankab u t, 29:3). [Publisher]