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She was surprised to see her cousin standing at the door
carrying her child in her arms. Her eyes were black and she looked pale.
Khadijah welcomed her cousin and took her to her mother's room. The
mother was surprised to see her daughter, and she rushed towards her to
take her in her arms. She thought that her daughter longed to see her
and she had regretted her past behavior. But her daughter sat down on
the nearest chair without the faintest idea of her mother's feelings.
The daughter said, "My husband has turned me out of our house, as
if I were a piece of used furniture that could be replaced." Her
mother's face grew pale and she said, "He turned you out? When?
How?" Her daughter replied, "Oh mother. You know how he is. He
returns home late every evening quite drunk. He throws himself on the
bed dead with sleep. When I object to his behavior, he reminds me of our
deal that we should respect each other's freedom. I can do nothing but
keep silent, since this idea of freedom was my wish from the beginning.
But things have grown worse recently. He has started to help himself to
my salary and deprived me of my rights in my house. "Yesterday, he
said he would no longer tolerate the chains of marriage and made me
leave my own home. I spent the night in the garden. I have nowhere to
go! My only brother won't allow me to stay in his house. I have none to
turn to but you." Her mother did not know what to say. She thought
her niece was kind enough to have her in her house. Could she bring
someone else to live with her? It was too much a favor to ask.
Khadijah, who had heard everything, knew of her aunt's
hidden suffering. She decided to save her the trouble. She told her
cousin, "You have done the correct thing by coming to your mother.
She will be happy to have you with her until things get better."
The distraught young woman thanked her cousin for her kind help and
said, "Oh, how grateful I am to you, Khadijah! You have been so
kind to my mother. Now you are doing me a great favor." Khadijah
smiled and said, "Oh, don't say such things. You should consider
this house as your own." The aunt was so moved that she rushed to
Khadijah and kissed her.
She said, "How wonderful you are, my dear! What
great faith you have." Khadijah whispered into her ear,
"Please aunt, tell your daughter to wear her hijab as long as she
is in our house." The aunt answered immediately, "Oh, yes, I
have already decided to do so." She settled herself near her
daughter and said, "I have never felt such comfort in my life as I
feel here. I have found in your cousin Khadijah and her husband love and
care that I never found in you and your brother. You are my own
children, but you showed ingratitude towards me, while my niece and her
husband flood me with kind feelings. I wish you knew the reason."
She was silent for a while.
Then her daughter said, "Oh, mother, surely it is
faith in Allah and His Pleasure that dominates their life, while we lack
such faith." "Praise is due to Allah the Almighty that you
have realized the truth by yourself," said her mother.
"Therefore, you should start to show regret for the past and return
to religion by first wearing hijab." The daughter looked down at
the floor and was silent. Then Khadijah said, "I think she has
found out what happens when one neglects one's religion. She now feels
the importance of Islamic ethics." Her cousin looked up at her and
said, "You are right, Khadijah. I am tired of this life of
pretence. I need someone to lead me and teach me true faith and real
salvation with no submission to other's wishes and desires. But I can
not help wondering what people will say about me." Khadijah
replied, "You always tried to please people in the past, which made
you their slave. You have gained nothing from that but false happiness.
You have wasted years, running the wrong way.
Now, it is time for you to come back to your religion
and understand Islamic values in order to gain happiness in this life
and the Hereafter." "Will Allah accept' my repentance after
years of deviation?" her cousin asked. "Yes, of course, Allah
loves those who repent and hates those who insist on doing wrong."
Then Khadijah recited the Qur'anic verse: "Do they know that Allah
accepts repentance from His servants and takes alms, and that Allah is
All Compassionate? Say: Work and Allah will see your (good) work and so
will His Apostle and the believers." (Baraat, verses 104-105) The
cousin spent a few weeks with her mother. She was greatly effected by
Khadijah's strong faith. Khadijah did her best to help her, and she gave
her some Islamic books, which she read and discussed. Eventually
Khadijah's cousin became a good Muslim, and she knew she could no longer
live with a man addicted to drinking and gambling. She filed for a
divorce, and gave up all her rights to her home in return for keeping
her only child, so as to raise him to be a good believer.
The
Mutual Consultation Among the Crowd
It goes as:
A lion who held all the beasts of the surrounding in
subjection, and was always in the habit of making raids upon them to
snap and kill any of them as he required for his daily food. It lasted
vey long until the beasts took counsel together and all agreed to
deliver him one of their company each day. They thought that it would
satisfy the lion's hunger, and as a result, he would cease to harm them
by his continual attacks.
The lion was at first unwilling to trust them and seemed
not to believe such words-thus he went on by remarking that he would
prefer to rely on his effort. But, by being serious on their decision,
the beasts succeeded in persuading him that he would do well to trust
them and accept the free offerings.
Having carried the suggestion, the beasts continued for
sometime to perform their engagement-sending each day a certain friend
of theirs to the lion to devour.
Once it happened to be the turn of a hare to be
delivered up as a victim to the lion; but before long he requested the
others to let him practise device. The friends mocked him, asking how
such a silly beast as he could pretend to outwit the lion. The hare
assured them that the wisdom only belonged to Allah, and that was He who
might choose weak things to confound the strong. In the end they
consented to let him try his luck.
The hare took slowly his way to the lion, and found him
roaring in anger. In excuse for his being late he invented that he along
with another hare had set out together to appear before the lion, but a
strange strong lion had seized the next hare and carried him off into
his resting place in a ditch. On hearing the pitiful remarks of the hare
the lion was exceeding wroth, and commanded the hare to show him the foe
who had trespassed on his area. Pretending to be afraid of the second
lion, the hare got on the present lion to ride to the destiny upon his
back, and directed him to a well. On looking down the well, the lion saw
in the water the reflection of himself and of the hare on his back.
Quite in rage, he thought that it was the strong enemy of his with the
stolen hare, he plunged down into the well to attack him.
From that moment, not only the hare, but all his beast-friends were
released by their wise consulation - which is based on Surah Shura,Ayah
38 ofthe Holy Qur'an:"who(conduct) Their affairs by mutual
Consultation;"
