Minorities in an Islamic State — Page 67
67 Holy Prophet sa and told him the conversation. The woman was asked to dismount. A big urn was placed and the water skins were opened in it. People came and took water according to their needs. Many hundreds of people quenched their thirst with it. One man wanted to have a bath. He also took water. The woman stood wondering at the strange scene. The narrator says: 'By Allah, when people stopped taking water the skins were as full as before. The Holy Prophet sa , then asked the people to collect something to give to the woman. People collected dates, flour and satt u i and gave them to the woman. When she mounted the camel and was about to go, the Holy Prophet sa addressed her, 'You know, we have not taken any of your water. This was only an apparent means otherwise we were given water by Allah Himself. The woman went back to her tribe. Her people asked her where she had been. She told them the whole incident and said: 'By God either he is the greatest magician on the face of the earth or he is truly a Prophet of God'. After this incident, although the Muslims were always engaged in fighting with the disbelievers in the vicinity but they never once interfered with her tribe. At last the woman said to her people: "Look at i Grain parched and coarsely ground and drunk with water and sugar.