Pleasant Stories & Anecdotes — Page 51
Pleasant Anecdotes—For Your Sake 51 For Your Sake If a man becomes a believer in [the existence of ] God and devel- ops perfect faith, then he is never wasted. Instead, millions of lives are protected for his sake. This story is about a person who was one of the men of God. He was travelling on a ship. A storm hit the sea, and the ship was about to sink, but it was saved due to the prayers of this man of God. He received a revelation while he was praying, ‘We saved all of them for your sake’. (Malf ūzā t, vol. 10, p. 138) Wrath of God on a King Nothing is more effective than prayer. . . There is a narration about Sheikh Nizām-ud-D i n that once he came under severe wrath of a king. The king ordered, ‘Sheikh shall face severe punishment in a week’. When the day of punishment arrived, Sheikh Nizām-ud-D i n was napping using the thigh of his disciple as a pillow. The disci- ple wept as he thought about the order of the king. His tears fell on Sheikh Nizām-ud-D i n, who got up and asked, ‘Why are you crying?’ The disciple submitted that it day was the day of your punishment. Sheikh Nizām-ud-D i n replied, ‘Do not worry. I will not be punished. I just saw in a dream that a goring cow came to kill me, but I managed to grasp her both horns and made her fall’.