Points to Ponder — Page 26
— 26 Pain of the Beloved I am always amazed, and I say in my heart, “Lord, what a doing of Yours. How You have implanted the feeling of love for me in the hearts of the people. ” Whenever there is a chance of going on a journey and I am riding a horse, at least one young man walks on foot alongside for my security. And when I get off the horse, he starts massaging my feet, and says, “Your Holiness may be tired. ” I realize that I came on the horse and he walked on foot along the horse, but because the love he has for me, it does not occur to him that I was on the horse, so how could I be tired? He thinks that he was on the horse and I was on foot. Despite my insistence that I am not tired as I was riding the horse, he starts massaging my feet saying, “Your Holiness must be tired. Please let me avail the opportunity to serve you. ” Where there is love, a person sees his own trouble less and that of the beloved more. But in ordinary circumstances, a person feels his own pain more and another’s less. Non-believers captured a companion of the Holy Prophet by deceit. A Meccan had been killed with his hands so they sold him to the Meccans. They wanted to kill this companion with torture in retaliation for their