THE BEGGAR

MULIA: There was a beggar who went to a rich man to ask for help. He heard the rich man said to his servant. “O Gold, say to Gem, to say to Jewel, to say to Sapphire to say to this beggar that we do not have anything”. The beggar raised his hands to the sky and said “O my Lord, say to Jibril, to say to Israfil, to say to Mikail, to say Izrail to take the soul of this miser”.

TEGUH: There is a saying “Whoever fears Allah, He will make all things fear him. And whoever fears people, Allah will make him fear everything”. And another “If you are true to Allah, He will be true to you”.

FAEZ: An old lady went to see ruler Suleiman, complaining about his army stole her livestock while she was sleeping in her house. The ruler said to her “You should have stayed up and taken care of your livestock!” She glared at him and responded “I thought that you were awake, watching over us, my leader, and so I slept with a peaceful mind”.

AKHTAR: “And whatever you spend of anything (in Allah’s cause), he will replace it. And He is the Best of providers”. (Quran 34:39)

TEGUH: If our inner reality is the same as our outward appearance, then that is uprightness; if our inner reality is better than our outward appearance, then that is superiority; and if our inner reality is worse than our outward appearance, then that is wrongdoing.

MULIA: If you hear something that you do not like about your friend, then try your best to seek out an excuse for him. And if you unable find any excuse for him, then say: perhaps my friend has an excuse that I do not know about.

FAEZ: A rich man one day sat with his wife to eat a barbecued chicken. A beggar knocked on the door, and the man scolded the beggar and drove him away. It was the Will of Allah that several years later the rich man became poor, and because of his poverty he had to divorce his wife. Later she married another man, and one day she was sitting with him to eat a barbecued chicken, when someone knocked on the door begging for food. The man asked his wife to give the chicken to the man at the door. She opened the door, she was shocked that it was her first husband. She gave him the chicken and returned crying. She then told her present husband about the beggar that her previous husband had scolded and sent away. Her present husband said “By Allah, I was that beggar”.