we must not
harm animals
one of the followers of the prophet muhammad told this story."one day as
we were sitting with the prophet, all of a sudden a man entered with a piece
of cloth wrapped around his hands.
he said,"messenger of god! i was passing through a jungle when i heard the
singing of birds from the top of a tree.
i climbed up the tree and saw a nest which had a few beautiful baby birds
in it. i caught hold of them and wrapped them up in a cloth. while i was
carrying them they started making much noise and their mother began to fly
around my head crying out.
i placed the cloth on the ground and opened it up. the mother bird flew up
next to them and kept them under her wings; i closed the cloth and caught
all of them. i still have them with me."
the prophet asked the man to place the birds on the ground. when he opened
the cloth, the mother started running around her babies crying out loudly.
everyone marveled at how much the mother loved and cared about her children.
since the prophet never harmed any animal, he asked the man to return the
birds safely to their nest immediately.
the man listened and did as the prophet had asked him to do.
questions
1. who told a story?2. where had the man found the nest?
3. what did he do to the baby birds?
4. who made much noise?
5. what did the mother bird begin to do?
6. what did the prophet tell the man to do?
7. did the mother bird fly away?
8. who told the man to return the birds safely?
9. who returned them safely?