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The Story of a Woman
Abu-ul-Hassan Siraj (mercy be upon him) says: “Once set out for the performance of pilgrimage (Hajj). I was making a circuit of Holy Ka‘bah when I happened to see a fair-faced woman. I said: By God! I have not seen such a beautiful woman so far. All this beauty of her face is because of the fact that she must not have suffered any grief or sorrow.” She heard this statement of mine and said: ‘What have you said? By God! I am immersed into grief and my heart is afflicted with adversities and misfortunes and no one is there to share with me the pangs of grief.”
I asked: ‘‘What happened to you?” She said: ‘‘My husband slaughtered a goat. My two small children were playing and an infant was in my lap. I stood up for a cooking meal.’”” Thereupon one of these two said to the other: ‘May I tell you how our father slaughtered the goat.” The other replied in the affirmative. And at once he killed his brother like a goat by laying him on the ground. He then ran away on account of fear, and climbed up a mountain where a wolf devoured him. His father went out in search of him and, during his quest of him, he died due to the intensity of thirst.
I caused the infant to sit and went towards the door of the house with the hope of getting some information about the whereabouts of my husband. The infant crawled to the fire upon which the earthen pot was lying. As soon as he disturbed: it, it fell upon him in the boiling condition as a result of which his body was burnt removing the flesh from the bones. I had one young daughter who was in her husband’s house. When the information of this calamity reached her, she fell down dead. It was I who was left alone.” I asked her: “How did you endure all these misfortunes ?” She said: ‘‘A person who would ponder over ‘Patience’ and ‘Impatience’, would see much difference between them. The reward of ‘Patience’ is noble and, for ‘impatience’ there is no reward.”’ Then, she recited these three verses and went away. The translation of these verses is as follows :
“ I endured because endurance is the best thing to rely upon. If any advantage could be obtained by ‘impatience’ I must have adopted it. I endured many a misfortune that if these fell even on mountains, these must have broken into pieces. I exercised full control over my tears and thus barred them from coming out. Now, those tears are falling within my heart.”
READ ALSO;
[CONCERNING THE DEATH OF GOD-FEARING MAN]
[THE STORY OF TWO SLAVE GIRLS.]
[THE STORY OF MUSA BIN MUHAMMAD AL HASHIMY]
[THE STORY OFRASHID BIN SULAIMAN]
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