Gardens of the Righteous — Page 12
12. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS said: How were your hearts reconciled to pouring earth over the Messenger of. Allah? (Bokhari). 29. Usamah ibn Zaid, loved by the Holy Prophet and the son of one loved. by him, relates that a daughter of the Holy Prophet sent word to him that her son was at his last breath and begged him to go to her. He sent his salutation to her with the message: To Allah belongs that which He bestowed and to Him belongs that which He takes. Everything has its term fixed by Him. Let her be steadfast, therefore, and hope for His grace and mercy. She sent back word to him begging him for the sake of Allah to go to her. He stood up and proceeded to her accompanied by Sa'ad ibn Ubadah, Mu'az ibn Jabal, Ubayy ibn Ka'ab, Zaid ibn Thabit and others. When he arrived the child was presented to him and he took it in his lap. Observing its distress his tears began to run, whereupon Sa'ad said: Messenger of Allah, what is this? He made answer: This is compassion which Allah has placed in the hearts of His servants (and one version has it: in the hearts of such of His servants as He has willed) and Allah has compassion on such of His servants as are compassionate (Bokhari and Muslim). 30. Suhaib relates that the Holy Prophet said: In earlier times there was a. King who had a magician. When he grew old he said to the King: I am grown old, send me a young man whom I could instruct in magic. The King sent him a young man to be instructed. In the young man's way to the magician was a monk with whom he sat and to whom he listened. He was so pleased with the discourse of the monk that every time he went to the magician he would sit with the monk on the way. The magician would beat him and the young man complained to the monk of this. He told him: When you are afraid of the magician say to him: My people detained me; and when you are afraid of your people say to them: The monk detained me. This went on and one day the young man saw that a huge beast blocked the road so that people could not pass. The young man thought: Now I can find out whether the magician is superior or the monk. So he took up a stone and said: Lord, if the way of the monk is more to. Thy liking than the way of the magician, then do Thou bring about the death of this beast so that the people can pass; and hit the beast with the stone and killed it thus letting the people pass; The young man told the monk of this who said to him: Son, you have become better than I, and I conceive that you have arrived at a stage when you will get into trouble. Should that happen, do not disclose my whereabouts. . The young man began to cure people of blindness and leprosy and all manner of diseases. His fame reached a courtier of the King who had become blind. He came to the young man with costly offerings and said: All this will be yours if you will heal me. The young man said to him: I cannot heal any one. It is God who bestows healing. If you will believe in God I will pray for you and He will heal you. So he believed in God and God cured him of his blindness. He went to the King and sat with him as he used to. The King asked him: Who has restored thy sight? The man answered: My God. The King inquired; Have you a god beside me? He replied: Allah is your God and my God. The King ordered the