Lesson # 1169 from
Holy Qur-’aan
Matter of a Muslim is, first of all, in God’s
Hand -2
Surah ‘TAWBAH or BARAAA-‘AH (REPENTANCE) –
Chapter – 9)
Stage – 2, Verse –129 of 129, Section – 16 of
16 (Part – 11)
BisMillaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Lesson
After that, Messenger of Allah Almighty (grace,
blessings and peace be on Him) directed the people: None will talk with these
three persons {Ka’b bin Malik, Maraarah bin ‘Ar-Rabii’ and Hilal
bin Umayyah (May Allah be pleased with them)}. My world was darkened.
Everything had become stranger from me. We passed over fifty days in such
condition. My other two companions set out to their homes for mourning, but I
was stronger than all others physically and younger, used to offer
congregational prayers and wander in bazaars. After prayer, I used to salute
the Messenger (grace, blessings and peace be on Him), but when I used to behold
Him (grace, blessings and peace be on Him), He used to turn His face without
talking.
After observing these circumstances, I climbed
at the wall of Abu Qataadah’s house (May Allah be pleased with them),
who was my cousin (paternal) and had love with me. I saluted him. By God, he
did not reply. I came down being disappointed. Then I was passing through the
bazaar and heard – one villager of Syria, who had come to sell a mercantile
grain, was in search of me. The people indicated him towards me. He came unto
me and gave a letter, sent by the king of Ghassaan. It was written in
that letter: I have heard that your Leader (grace, blessings and peace be on
Him) has rejected you and now you are in adverse condition. Come unto us, we
shall entertain you properly. After reading the letter, I thought: this another
misfortune has reached. And I cast that letter into the oven.
After forty days, a courier of God’s Messenger
(grace, blessings and peace be on Him) came and said: It is commanded that you
should live alone (separate from tour wife). This commandment was also for my
other two companions. Hilal bin Ummayyah sent his request: I am an old
man and needy of an attendant.
Messenger of Allah Almighty (grace, blessings
and peace be on Him) permitted him in these words: Your wife can serve you, but
you should remain away from her. The people said to me: You should do the same
also. I said: No, I am adult. When complete fifty days were over, Allah
Almighty sent His Revelation and my error was forgiven. The people ran unto me
with glad-tidings and I attended the Court of Messenger (grace, blessings and
peace be on Him). His Face had been blooming with happiness, Commanded: The day
of Today, with effect from you have born, is the best day. Allah Almighty has
forgiven you. I requested: I wish to sacrifice my entire wealth for the welfare
of needy people, due to this happiness. Messenger (grace, blessings and peace
be on Him) commanded: No. You should keep some wealth for your own living also.
Then I requested: O Messenger of Allah Almighty (grace, blessings and peace be
on Him)! God has forgiven me due to the reason that I spoke the truth. I
promise that until death, I shall never tell a lie. Therefore, till today, I
have never told a lie intentionally.
I consider that my this deed is the best that
I stated my condition truly as it was, before the Messenger of Allah Almighty (grace,
blessings and peace be on Him), and did not join those people, in whose reproof,
verses were revealed because of producing their false excuses.
FROM THIS INCIDENT we should learn that we should
abstain from deceiving anyone and telling a lie, and whatsoever we do, should
do fearing Allah Almighty, because He is Aware of Open and Hidden. And in this
connection, we should also be saved from those tokens; which have been
described about the Hypocrites, because none can deceive Allah Almighty, and
matter of a Muslim is, first of all, in God’s Hand.
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