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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Actions Speak the Language that Words Could Not Express In the corner of the marketplace of Madinah was a blind Jewish beggar, who would cry out daily to all those who came near him, "O my brothers, don't go near Muhammad! He's a lunatic, he's a liar, a sorcerer! If you are to be close to him, you will be influenced by him!" No matter whoever approached him, the blind Jewish beggar would definitely never waste a chance to incite them to hate the Prophet Muhammad, (peace and blessings be upon him). All kinds of curses would spew forth from the beggar's lips--even though he had never known the Prophet personally! The news about the blind Jewish beggar's daily cursing and bad-mouthing him came to the knowledge of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Even then, the Holy Prophet Muhammad did not get angry and he ignored the blind Jewish beggar's insults against him. On the contrary, from that day onwards, at each morning, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) visited the blind beggar an brought food for him. Without saying a single word, the Blessed Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would feed the beggar with his own hand. The blind beggar would chew the food being fed to him and eat contentedly. Once he was full, he'd express his gratitude without knowing that the one who had fed him was the Holy Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) continued to feed the blind beggar without fail each day till the day he died!Throughout his service to the blind Jewish beggar, he never identified himself to the man. After the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) had passed away, no one brought food to the blind beggar any more.The blind Jewish beggar waited daily and was perplexed as to why the kind man no longer came to feed him and provide for him as he had done all the while. The blind beggar waited in vain for the kind gentleman who had never missed visiting him each and every morning. One day, the closest Companion of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (TheTruthful One, may Allah be pleased with him) visited the home of his daughter A'isha (may Allah be pleased with her), the widow of the Blessed Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Abu Bakr asked A'isha, "O my child, is there any habit of my beloved (Prophet) that I have yet to carry on?" A'isha replied, "Dear Father, you are verily a follower of the Sunnah (habits) of the Prophet and there is none that you have yet to do except for one deed only!" "What is that?" asked Abu Bakr. "Every morning, the Prophet of Allah would go to the end of the marketplace, bringing food to a blind old Jewish beggar who lives there and feed him by his own hand,"said A'isha. The next day, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq went to the marketplace with food for the blind beggar. He approached the beggar and started to feed him. At the first handful of food being fed to him, the blind Jewish beggar became angry and shouted out, "Who are you?" Abu Bakr answered," I am the one who usually feeds you every morning". "No! Don't you lie to me!" objected the blind beggar. Abu Bakr was shocked, thus he asked,"Why do you say so?" Answered the blind Jewish beggar, "Because when he comes to me, I always felt it easy to hold his hand and found it easy to chew the food he fed me! The man who used to feed me would make the food fine before feeding it to me!" Abu Bakr as-Siddiq could not hold back his tears any more and he burst out crying as he disclosed who he actually was to the beggar. "Verily, I am not the one who used to come and feed you. I am one of his Companions for the noble one is alive no more! He was none other than the Blessed Prophet of Allah, Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him!" "Muhammad?" asked the blind old Jewish beggar, totally shocked with what he had just heard. "You mean to tell me that the one who came each morning without fail and fed me by his hand was Muhammad?" asked the beggar. "Yes! It was Muhammad! "answered Abu Bakr. Immediately, the blind old Jewish beggar wailed out in despair and cried so pitifully, coming to realize that it was none other than the Holy Prophet who had been feeding him all the while. "All this while!...all this while, I had been cursing him, I had been slandering him! Not once had he ever scolded me! He kept coming every morning to feed me! He was so noble!" cried the old blind Jewish beggar as he wiped away his flowing tears from his cheeks. The blind beggar reached out to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, the first Khalifa of the Muslims, and testified before him the Kalimah Shahadah "شهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله...I testify that there is no god but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. From that moment onwards, the blind old Jewish beggar became a Muslim. Source--- http:// Brothers and Sisters visit our Website and our Facebook page---> WWW.CallingChristians.COM http://www.facebook.com/ Thanks sister Colisha Hariss for this Jazaka Allahu Ghairan |
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