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Khalifah Haroon Rashid Rahmatullah alaihe had a son, about six teen y ears of age, who used to associate frequently with the ascetics and spiritual leaders of those times. He would often go to the grav ey ard, sit by the grav es and say , “There was a time when y ou inhabited this world and y ou were its m asters. But the world did not protect y ou and y ou ended up in grav es. Would that I knew what y ou are ex periencing now! I wish I knew what y ou said in reply to the questions that were asked of y ou!” He used to recite this couplet v ery often: “The funerals frighten me ev ery day , and wailings of the female mourners make me sad.”
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son One day , the y oung boy came to the court of his father, Haroon Rasheed, while he was sitting in company with v iziers, lords and noblemen. The boy was dressed in simple clothes; with a turban on his head; when the courtiers saw him in this condition, they said, “The way s of this mad boy are a disgrace to the Amir-ul-Mo’mineen, in the sight of the kings; if he could onish him, the boy might giv e up his foolish habits”. The Khalifah heard this and said to his son, “My dear son, y ou hav e disgraced me in the sight of the kings”. At this, the boy did not say a word (to his father), but called out to a bird sitting nearby , “O bird, I ask y ou, in the name of Him Who created y ou, to come and sit on my hand,” whereupon the bird flew across to him and perched on his hand. The boy then told it to fly away and it flew back to perch as before. After this, he said to his father, “My dear father, as a matter of fact, it is y our attachment of the world that is a disgrace to me. I hav e made up my mind to part from y ou”. And, say ing this, the boy went away , taking only the Qur’an with him. When he went to take leav e from his mother, she gav e him a precious ring (so that he might sell it and use the money in case of need). The boy then went to Basrah, to work among the labourers. He accepted employ ment only on Saturday s, using his day ’s wages for sev en day s, spending a Danaq (One six th Dirham) each day . The remaining story has been related by Abu Aamir Basri Rahmatullah alaihe, who say s. “Once a wall of my house collapsed and I needed a mason to rebuild it. Somebody told me that there was a y oung boy who did the work of a mason and I went looking for him. Outside the city , I saw a handsome y oung boy sitting on the ground and reciting the Holy Qur’an with a bag ly ing beside him. I asked him if he would like to work as a labourer and he said, ‘Certainly , we hav e been created to toil and labour. What work would y ou want me to do?’ I said that I needed a mason to do some construction. He said, ‘I shall take a Dirham and a Danaq as my wages for the day , and I shall hav e to stop work and go to the Masjid when it is time for Salaat; I shall resume work after Salaat.’ I agreed; he came with me and began to work on the wall. I came back in the ev ening and I was surprised to see that he had done as much work as ten masons. I gav e him two Dirhams, but he refused to accept more than a Dirham and a ‘Danaq’ and was gone, taking just as much as had been agreed upon.
‘Nex t morning, I went out again, 1 ooking for him, but I was told that he worked only on Saturday s and that nobody could find him on other day s of the week. As I was greatly satisfied with his work, I decided to postpone the remaining construction till Saturday . When Saturday came round, I again went looking for him and found him in the same place, reciting from the Holy Qur’an as usual. When I greeted him, say ing Assalaam-o-Alaikum’, he returned my greetings, say ing, ‘Wa-‘Alaikum-as-Salaam’ and agreed to work on the wall. Wondering how he had done ten day s’ work last Saturday , I watched him working, without being noticed by him. I saw, to my amazement, that, when he put mortar on the wall, the stones automatically ed together. I was sure that he was one the fav ourites of Allah, as such people are assisted by unseen help from Allah Ta’ala. In the ev ening, I wanted to giv e him three Dirhams but he took just a Dirham and a Danaq and went away , say ing, I hav e no use for more than this amount’. I waited for him for another week and went out looking for him again nex t Saturday , but could not find him any where. On my enquiring from people, a man told me that he had been ill for three day s and was ly ing in a deserted place; so I engaged a guide on pay ment to lead me to the place. We reached there to find him ly ing unconscious on the ground, his head pillowed on a piece of broken brick. I greeted him, but he did not respond and I said, ‘Assalaam-o-aIaikum’ a bit louder. This time he opened his ey es and recognized me. I laid his head in my lap, but he put it back on the piece of brick and recited a few couplets, two of which I still : ‘O my friend, do not be beguiled by the lux uries of the world, for, y our life is ing away ; the lux uries are short-liv ed. And when y ou carry a bier to the grav e, , one day y ou, too, will be carried to the grav ey ard.’
The boy then said to me, ‘Abu Amir, when my soul departs, wash me and shroud me in the clothes that I am wearing now.’ I said, “Dear me, I see no harm in buy ing new cloth for y our shroud”. He said, ‘The liv ing are more in want of new clothes that the dead.’ (These, ex actly , were the words spoken by Abu Bakr Radhiallaho anho when he was nigh unto death and willed that he should be shrouded in his old garments, when they asked his permission to buy new cloth for his shroud). “The boy added, ‘The shroud (old or new) will quickly decay . What remains with a man after his death are his deeds. Giv e this turban of mine and the jug of water to the grav e-digger and, when y ou hav e buried me, conv ey this copy of the Holy Qur’an and this ring to Khalifah Haroon Rashid and mind y ou, deliv er it into his own hands and say , ‘These things were entrusted to me by a stranger boy who bade me conv ey them to y ou,’ with the words: ‘O Father, take heed, lest y ou die in heedlessness, beguiled by the world’. With these words on his lips the y oung boy gav e up his soul. At that moment I came to know that he was a prince. “After his death, I washed him, shrouded him and laid him in the grav e, ev en as he had desired and I gav e his turban and the jug to the grav e-digger. After this, I undertook a journey to Baghdad in order to deliv er the ring and the Holy Book to the Khalifah. Luckily for me, when I
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son reached the Khalifah’s palace, his cav alcade was just coming out of the court. I stood on a raised platform and watched the pageant. There came out from the palace a troop of a thousand horsemen, followed by ten more troops, in each a thousand horse¬men. In the last troop rode the Amir-ul-Mo’mineen, himself, on seeing whom I called in a loud v oice, ‘O, Amir-ulMo’mineen,, I beseech y ou, in the name of y our kinship with Rasulullah Sallallaho alaihe wasallam, to stop awhile’ The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen stopped and looked round, I went forward at once and handed ov er to him the two trusts of the deceased prince, say ing, ‘These things were entrusted to me by a stranger boy who ed away , leav ing a will that these should be deliv ered into y our own hands. The Khalifah looked at the ring and the Holy Qur’an and hung his head in sorrow. I saw tears dripping from his ey es. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen, then, told his chamberlain to escort me to his palace and to present me to him when he came back from the promenade. I stay ed with the chamberlain in the palace. “When the Khalifah came back in the ev ening, he ordered the curtains of his palace to be drawn down and told the chamberlain to call me into his presence, ev en though, he said, ‘The man will just rev iv e my sorrow’. The chamberlain came to me and said, ‘The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen wants y ou, but mind y ou, he is griev ously shocked. If y ou want to say something in ten words, try to put it in fiv e.’ He then ushered me into the priv ate room of the Khalifah, who was sitting there all by himself. The Khalifah told me to sit closer to him and when I had taken my seat, asked me, ‘Do y ou know that son of mine?’ I said Y es, and he asked me, ‘What did he do for a liv ing?’ I said that he did the work of a mason. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen, said, ‘Did y ou also engage him to do the work of a mason?’ I said that I had done so. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen said, ‘Did it not occur to y our mind that he had a kinship with Rasulullah’ (Haroon Rasher was a descendant of Abbas Radhiallaho anho, the uncle of Rasulullah Sallallaho alaihe wasallam). I said, ‘O Ameer-uI Mo’mineen! First of all, I beg forgiv eness of Allah Ta’ala and then beg y our pardon, but I did not know of it at that time. I only learnt about it after he had ed away .’ The Khalifah said, ‘Did y ou wash y our body with y our own hands?’ I said, ‘Y es’ and he said, ‘Let me touch y our hand’. He then held my hand to his bosom, caressing his chest with it, and recited a few v erses which meant: O thou estranged from me, my heart melts away with grief ov er thee; my ey es shed tears of sorrow! O thou whose burial-place is far, too far, thy grief is closer to my heart. True, death disconcerts most ex cellent pleasures of the world. Ah, my estranged son was like a moon hanging abov e a silv ery bough. The moon has set in the grav e, the silv ery bough gone to dust. After this, Haroon Rashid decided to go to Basrah to v isit the grav e of his son. I, Abu Aamir also accompanied him. Standing by his son’s grav e, Haroon Rasheed recited the following v erses, ‘O v oy ager to the Unknown, nev er shalt thou come back home. Death snatched y ou away in the first bloom of y outh. O coolness of my ey es, thou wert my solace, my heart’s peace, in long lonely hours of night and in brief moments of death, which thy father shall drink in old age. Indeed, each one must taste of Death, be he nomad or a town dweller. All praise be to Allah, the One, Who has no partners; for, these are the manifestations of His Div ine Decree. The following night, when I went to bed after observ ing my daily dev otional practices, I dreamt that I saw a domed building bathed in Noor, abov e which there hung a cloud of Noor. Out of this cloud of Noor came the v oice of the deceased boy , talking to me, ‘Abu Aamir, May Allah grant y ou the best reward (for washing and shrouding me and for acting upon my will)!’ I asked him, ‘My dear friend, how are y ou faring in the nex t world?’ He said, ‘I hav e been itted to the presence of my Lord, Who is the Most Bounteous One and Who is well pleased with me. He has granted me such Bounties as ey es hav e nev er seen, ears hav e nev er heard of and minds hav e nev er thought of.’ (The reference is to a Hadith Qudsi which narrates as follows: Rasulullah reports Allah Ta’ala as say ing “I hav e prepared for my righteous serv ants, things that no ey e has seen, nor any ear heard of; nor entered in the mind of man”. Abdullah bin Mas’ood Radhiallaho anho narrates; ‘It occurs in the Torah that Allah Ta’ala has prepared for those who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord (observ e Tahajjud Salat) such bounties as no ey e has seen, nor any ear heard, nor occurring in the mind of any man, nor does any angel (howev er near to Allah) know of them, nor are they known to any Nabi or Rasul. Allah Ta’ala say s, in the Holy Qur’an: No soul knoweth what is kept hidden for them of joy (mosty pleasing to their ey es). (Sajdah: 1 7 ) The boy then said to me (in the dream), ‘Allah Ta’ala has promised me, swearing by His Glory , that He would grant such honours and bounties to all those who come out of the world like me, without being tainted by it!’ The author of ‘Raudh’ say s that this story has also come down to him through another chain of narration. This v ersion adds: Someone asked Haroon Rashid about this boy and he said, “This son was born before my ascension to the Caliphate and was brought up v ery well and was taught good manners. He had learnt the Holy Qur’an and other related branches of religious knowledge, but when I rose to be a Khalifah, he forsake me and went away . My worldly
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son magnificence did not bring him any comfort in life, for he did not like to benefit from it in any way . When he was going away , I asked his mother to giv e him the ring, the pearl set in which was v ery precious, but he did not make use of it and sent it back before his death. The boy had been v ery obedient to his mother.” (Raudh)
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Khalifah Haroon Rashid Rahmatullah alaihe had a son, about six teen y ears of age, who used to associate frequently with the ascetics and spiritual leaders of those times. He would often go to the grav ey ard, sit by the grav es and say , “There was a time when y ou inhabited this world and y ou were its m asters. But the world did not protect y ou and y ou ended up in grav es. Would that I knew what y ou are ex periencing now! I wish I knew what y ou said in reply to the questions that were asked of y ou!” He used to recite this couplet v ery often: “The funerals frighten me ev ery day , and wailings of the female mourners make me sad.”
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son One day , the y oung boy came to the court of his father, Haroon Rasheed, while he was sitting in company with v iziers, lords and noblemen. The boy was dressed in simple clothes; with a turban on his head; when the courtiers saw him in this condition, they said, “The way s of this mad boy are a disgrace to the Amir-ul-Mo’mineen, in the sight of the kings; if he could onish him, the boy might giv e up his foolish habits”. The Khalifah heard this and said to his son, “My dear son, y ou hav e disgraced me in the sight of the kings”. At this, the boy did not say a word (to his father), but called out to a bird sitting nearby , “O bird, I ask y ou, in the name of Him Who created y ou, to come and sit on my hand,” whereupon the bird flew across to him and perched on his hand. The boy then told it to fly away and it flew back to perch as before. After this, he said to his father, “My dear father, as a matter of fact, it is y our attachment of the world that is a disgrace to me. I hav e made up my mind to part from y ou”. And, say ing this, the boy went away , taking only the Qur’an with him. When he went to take leav e from his mother, she gav e him a precious ring (so that he might sell it and use the money in case of need). The boy then went to Basrah, to work among the labourers. He accepted employ ment only on Saturday s, using his day ’s wages for sev en day s, spending a Danaq (One six th Dirham) each day . The remaining story has been related by Abu Aamir Basri Rahmatullah alaihe, who say s. “Once a wall of my house collapsed and I needed a mason to rebuild it. Somebody told me that there was a y oung boy who did the work of a mason and I went looking for him. Outside the city , I saw a handsome y oung boy sitting on the ground and reciting the Holy Qur’an with a bag ly ing beside him. I asked him if he would like to work as a labourer and he said, ‘Certainly , we hav e been created to toil and labour. What work would y ou want me to do?’ I said that I needed a mason to do some construction. He said, ‘I shall take a Dirham and a Danaq as my wages for the day , and I shall hav e to stop work and go to the Masjid when it is time for Salaat; I shall resume work after Salaat.’ I agreed; he came with me and began to work on the wall. I came back in the ev ening and I was surprised to see that he had done as much work as ten masons. I gav e him two Dirhams, but he refused to accept more than a Dirham and a ‘Danaq’ and was gone, taking just as much as had been agreed upon.
‘Nex t morning, I went out again, 1 ooking for him, but I was told that he worked only on Saturday s and that nobody could find him on other day s of the week. As I was greatly satisfied with his work, I decided to postpone the remaining construction till Saturday . When Saturday came round, I again went looking for him and found him in the same place, reciting from the Holy Qur’an as usual. When I greeted him, say ing Assalaam-o-Alaikum’, he returned my greetings, say ing, ‘Wa-‘Alaikum-as-Salaam’ and agreed to work on the wall. Wondering how he had done ten day s’ work last Saturday , I watched him working, without being noticed by him. I saw, to my amazement, that, when he put mortar on the wall, the stones automatically ed together. I was sure that he was one the fav ourites of Allah, as such people are assisted by unseen help from Allah Ta’ala. In the ev ening, I wanted to giv e him three Dirhams but he took just a Dirham and a Danaq and went away , say ing, I hav e no use for more than this amount’. I waited for him for another week and went out looking for him again nex t Saturday , but could not find him any where. On my enquiring from people, a man told me that he had been ill for three day s and was ly ing in a deserted place; so I engaged a guide on pay ment to lead me to the place. We reached there to find him ly ing unconscious on the ground, his head pillowed on a piece of broken brick. I greeted him, but he did not respond and I said, ‘Assalaam-o-aIaikum’ a bit louder. This time he opened his ey es and recognized me. I laid his head in my lap, but he put it back on the piece of brick and recited a few couplets, two of which I still : ‘O my friend, do not be beguiled by the lux uries of the world, for, y our life is ing away ; the lux uries are short-liv ed. And when y ou carry a bier to the grav e, , one day y ou, too, will be carried to the grav ey ard.’
The boy then said to me, ‘Abu Amir, when my soul departs, wash me and shroud me in the clothes that I am wearing now.’ I said, “Dear me, I see no harm in buy ing new cloth for y our shroud”. He said, ‘The liv ing are more in want of new clothes that the dead.’ (These, ex actly , were the words spoken by Abu Bakr Radhiallaho anho when he was nigh unto death and willed that he should be shrouded in his old garments, when they asked his permission to buy new cloth for his shroud). “The boy added, ‘The shroud (old or new) will quickly decay . What remains with a man after his death are his deeds. Giv e this turban of mine and the jug of water to the grav e-digger and, when y ou hav e buried me, conv ey this copy of the Holy Qur’an and this ring to Khalifah Haroon Rashid and mind y ou, deliv er it into his own hands and say , ‘These things were entrusted to me by a stranger boy who bade me conv ey them to y ou,’ with the words: ‘O Father, take heed, lest y ou die in heedlessness, beguiled by the world’. With these words on his lips the y oung boy gav e up his soul. At that moment I came to know that he was a prince. “After his death, I washed him, shrouded him and laid him in the grav e, ev en as he had desired and I gav e his turban and the jug to the grav e-digger. After this, I undertook a journey to Baghdad in order to deliv er the ring and the Holy Book to the Khalifah. Luckily for me, when I
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son reached the Khalifah’s palace, his cav alcade was just coming out of the court. I stood on a raised platform and watched the pageant. There came out from the palace a troop of a thousand horsemen, followed by ten more troops, in each a thousand horse¬men. In the last troop rode the Amir-ul-Mo’mineen, himself, on seeing whom I called in a loud v oice, ‘O, Amir-ulMo’mineen,, I beseech y ou, in the name of y our kinship with Rasulullah Sallallaho alaihe wasallam, to stop awhile’ The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen stopped and looked round, I went forward at once and handed ov er to him the two trusts of the deceased prince, say ing, ‘These things were entrusted to me by a stranger boy who ed away , leav ing a will that these should be deliv ered into y our own hands. The Khalifah looked at the ring and the Holy Qur’an and hung his head in sorrow. I saw tears dripping from his ey es. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen, then, told his chamberlain to escort me to his palace and to present me to him when he came back from the promenade. I stay ed with the chamberlain in the palace. “When the Khalifah came back in the ev ening, he ordered the curtains of his palace to be drawn down and told the chamberlain to call me into his presence, ev en though, he said, ‘The man will just rev iv e my sorrow’. The chamberlain came to me and said, ‘The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen wants y ou, but mind y ou, he is griev ously shocked. If y ou want to say something in ten words, try to put it in fiv e.’ He then ushered me into the priv ate room of the Khalifah, who was sitting there all by himself. The Khalifah told me to sit closer to him and when I had taken my seat, asked me, ‘Do y ou know that son of mine?’ I said Y es, and he asked me, ‘What did he do for a liv ing?’ I said that he did the work of a mason. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen, said, ‘Did y ou also engage him to do the work of a mason?’ I said that I had done so. The Ameer-ul-Mo’mineen said, ‘Did it not occur to y our mind that he had a kinship with Rasulullah’ (Haroon Rasher was a descendant of Abbas Radhiallaho anho, the uncle of Rasulullah Sallallaho alaihe wasallam). I said, ‘O Ameer-uI Mo’mineen! First of all, I beg forgiv eness of Allah Ta’ala and then beg y our pardon, but I did not know of it at that time. I only learnt about it after he had ed away .’ The Khalifah said, ‘Did y ou wash y our body with y our own hands?’ I said, ‘Y es’ and he said, ‘Let me touch y our hand’. He then held my hand to his bosom, caressing his chest with it, and recited a few v erses which meant: O thou estranged from me, my heart melts away with grief ov er thee; my ey es shed tears of sorrow! O thou whose burial-place is far, too far, thy grief is closer to my heart. True, death disconcerts most ex cellent pleasures of the world. Ah, my estranged son was like a moon hanging abov e a silv ery bough. The moon has set in the grav e, the silv ery bough gone to dust. After this, Haroon Rashid decided to go to Basrah to v isit the grav e of his son. I, Abu Aamir also accompanied him. Standing by his son’s grav e, Haroon Rasheed recited the following v erses, ‘O v oy ager to the Unknown, nev er shalt thou come back home. Death snatched y ou away in the first bloom of y outh. O coolness of my ey es, thou wert my solace, my heart’s peace, in long lonely hours of night and in brief moments of death, which thy father shall drink in old age. Indeed, each one must taste of Death, be he nomad or a town dweller. All praise be to Allah, the One, Who has no partners; for, these are the manifestations of His Div ine Decree. The following night, when I went to bed after observ ing my daily dev otional practices, I dreamt that I saw a domed building bathed in Noor, abov e which there hung a cloud of Noor. Out of this cloud of Noor came the v oice of the deceased boy , talking to me, ‘Abu Aamir, May Allah grant y ou the best reward (for washing and shrouding me and for acting upon my will)!’ I asked him, ‘My dear friend, how are y ou faring in the nex t world?’ He said, ‘I hav e been itted to the presence of my Lord, Who is the Most Bounteous One and Who is well pleased with me. He has granted me such Bounties as ey es hav e nev er seen, ears hav e nev er heard of and minds hav e nev er thought of.’ (The reference is to a Hadith Qudsi which narrates as follows: Rasulullah reports Allah Ta’ala as say ing “I hav e prepared for my righteous serv ants, things that no ey e has seen, nor any ear heard of; nor entered in the mind of man”. Abdullah bin Mas’ood Radhiallaho anho narrates; ‘It occurs in the Torah that Allah Ta’ala has prepared for those who forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord (observ e Tahajjud Salat) such bounties as no ey e has seen, nor any ear heard, nor occurring in the mind of any man, nor does any angel (howev er near to Allah) know of them, nor are they known to any Nabi or Rasul. Allah Ta’ala say s, in the Holy Qur’an: No soul knoweth what is kept hidden for them of joy (mosty pleasing to their ey es). (Sajdah: 1 7 ) The boy then said to me (in the dream), ‘Allah Ta’ala has promised me, swearing by His Glory , that He would grant such honours and bounties to all those who come out of the world like me, without being tainted by it!’ The author of ‘Raudh’ say s that this story has also come down to him through another chain of narration. This v ersion adds: Someone asked Haroon Rashid about this boy and he said, “This son was born before my ascension to the Caliphate and was brought up v ery well and was taught good manners. He had learnt the Holy Qur’an and other related branches of religious knowledge, but when I rose to be a Khalifah, he forsake me and went away . My worldly
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Islam - the right path !: Khalifa Haroon Rasheed and his pious son magnificence did not bring him any comfort in life, for he did not like to benefit from it in any way . When he was going away , I asked his mother to giv e him the ring, the pearl set in which was v ery precious, but he did not make use of it and sent it back before his death. The boy had been v ery obedient to his mother.” (Raudh)
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