Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 10
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 10 Quickly, she lifted the child and gave him a drink by taking the water in the palm of her hand. The child was thus revived and he opened his eyes. The princess was overjoyed upon seeing this and immediately fell down into prostration before God who, with His divine power, had caused a spring to come out of the rocky land. The water was still flowing and increasing in its quantity. Seeing this, the princess quickly collected stones and formed a raised boundary around the spring to save the water. The water soon reached up to the edge of the stones and a sort of reservoir basin was formed. There was always a shortage of water in Arabia. Various tribes used to wander this way and that, carrying their camps with them. They would settle down wherever they found water for as long as there was any water; and when the water dried out, they would dismantle the camp and move on in search of another spring. The same thing happened here. By coincidence, a tribe named Jurhum passed through and saw that a spring of water was flowing in the barren and rocky valley and a woman with a child was sitting there. The people of Ban u Jurhum desired water and said, “O