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The Story of Rashid Bin Sulaiman
Hadrat Dahhak Maz’ahim (mercy be upon him) says: ‘On Friday night ‘, 1 went out intending to visit the principal mosque of Kufah. It was a moonlit night. In the yard of the mosque, I saw a young man, lying prostrate and weeping bitterly. I took him for a friend of Allah. I approached him intending to listen to his talk. He was saying :
“O! Master of all Honour! I only trust in Thee., Prosperous is he whose main objective is to seck Thy pleasure. Prosperous is he who spends the whole night in awe and fear of Thee and gives vent to his feelings of sorrow only before the Master of all glory. And he has no objective and no care besides this that he may spend his life in the ceaseless love of Allah. When he under the cover of night, is busy supplicating Allah, He responds to his supplication saying: ‘Here I am with you’.”
He was repeating these words with tears welling up from his eyes. It was out of sympathy that I also began to weep. Then he spoke in such a manner as if he were seeing some celestial light and hearing someone reciting the two verses, the translation of which is given as under :
“My bondsman! Here I am. Thou art under My Protection, And what thou art saying is audible to Me. My angels are fond of Thee,
And all Thy sins have We forgiven.” Then I, (says Hadrat Dahhak) said to him: “May peace be upon you!”’ He, in return, said: ‘‘May peace also be upon you !”? [said: ‘May the Glorious Lord bless this night for you and take pity upon you ; but let me know who you are?” He said: “I am Rashid bin Sulaiman.” I recognized him by name, as I had already heard about his qualities and had a keen desire to meet him but failed to do so. The Almighty God had that day provided me an opportunity to do so.
When I requested him to stay with me, he said: “It is very difficult. When a human being is blessed with the delights of Communion with his Lord, he can never have any affinity with the creatures save Him. By God! If any of these saints of the past happens to pass by us, he will certainly say: ‘These people do not believe in the Last Day.’ After saying this, Rashid disappeared. God knows better whether he flew to the sky or disappeared into the earth. Separation from him aggravated my grief and I prayed to God that He may again provide me an opportunity to meet him before I die.
Once I set out for Pilgrimage (Hajj) and saw under the shade of the wall of the Holy Ka‘ba, surrounded by people who were reciting to him the Surah An‘am. On seeing me, he smiled and said: ‘This is the fruit of the kindness of the learned Ulema and that was the blessing of the saints.” Then he stood up and shook hands with me and embraced me and said: ‘Did you beg your Lord for your meeting with me.” I replied in the affirmative. He said: *‘All praise is due to Allah. I blessed him. Then I requested him to let me know what he had seen and heard on that night.”
He cried so loudly that I thought as if his heart would break. He fell down senseless on the ground and the people, who were surrounding him and reciting the Qur’an to him, had gone away. When he regained his senses, he said: “O my brother! You do not know the depth of grief and terror which is in the hearts of Allah’s friends, as they disclose His secrets.” I asked him: ‘‘Who were those people who were reciting beside you?” He said: “That was a party of jinns. I respect them due to my old relations with them. They perform Pilgrimage (Hajj) in my company every year, and recite to me the Holy Qur’an.” Then he bade me farewell with blessings saying: ‘““May the Almighty and Glorious God arrange your meeting with me in the heaven where there will be neither separation, nor toil, nor grief, nor affliction.
After saying this, he disappeared. Hereafter I never saw him.”
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