The reward of honesty
Precious necklace
Ibn Aqeel wrote his story that I was a very poor man. Once while circumambulating I saw a necklace which was very valuable. I took that necklace. My heart wanted me to hide it, but my conscience said, no way, it is theft, but honesty demands that I return it to the one to whom it belongs. So I stood in the mataf and announced that if anyone has lost his necklace, he should come and get it from me.
It is said that a blind man came and said that this necklace is mine and fell from my bag.
My self reproached me still more, That the necklace was also a blind man's; But I gave that necklace to him. The blind man prayed and left.
They say that I used to pray that Allah! Arrange some sustenance for me. See the glory of Allah that I came from there to "Hila". (This is a village name) I went to a mosque there and found out that Imam Sahib had died a few days ago. People told me to pray. When I offered prayers, they liked to offer my prayers. They said, why don't you become Imam here. I said, great. I started performing the duties of Imamate there. A few days later, it was found that Imam Sahib, who had died earlier, had a one-year-old daughter. He had made a will to marry her to a good man. Muqtadi people said to me, Yes, if you want, we will marry this orphan girl to you. I said, yes, very good, so they married me to him.
After some time of marriage I saw my wife wearing the same necklace around her neck which I had returned to a blind man during Tawaf, I was shocked to see it. I asked, whose necklace is this?
He said, it was given to me by my father. I said, who was your father?
He said: He was a scholar, he was an imam in this mosque and he was blind. Then I found out that her father was the one to whom I had returned the necklace. I told him that I had picked up this necklace. She said that your prayer was also accepted and my father's prayer was also accepted. I said how?
He said that your prayer was accepted in such a way that Allah gave you a house, a housewife and provided sustenance and my father's prayer was accepted in such a way that when he returned with the necklace, that prayer They used to ask that O Allah! An Amin (honest) person has returned my necklace to me, O Allah! Give me such an honest person as a husband for my daughter. Allah also accepted my father's prayer and made you my husband
So Allah Almighty never allows the work of a sincere servant to stop, does not allow him to stop, but always puts his boat on the shore.
(Sir al-Maqal al-Nabla 443/19, translated by Ali bin Aqeel Baghdadi, deceased 506)
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