Endures patiently***

scrawled by Islamic Teachings For Women on t' date o' Day o' the Moon, Decembarrrr 20, 2010 roundabouts 12:43 in the evenin'

 

 

In The Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful <3

 A simple story i would like to share, from my sister in Islam,

Hassan Al Basree (Rahimahillah) had a neighbor who was a Christian. This neighbor had a toilet on the roof of his apartment and it used to leak through a hole in the roof of Hassan Al Basree’s apartment. Hassan placed a bucket beneath the hole to catch the urine that would leak through it and discard the contents at the end of each day. This continued for 20 years. Then one day, Hassan fell ill and his Christian neighbor came to visit him.

When he entered, the neighbor noticed the bucket of urine that was leaking through the hole in his ceiling and asked Hassan astoundingly:

“How long have you been tolerating this harm from me?!”

Hassan replied: “For 20 years!”

So the Christian neighbor took off his belt (which was the clothing of the Christians during that time) and accepted Islam…!!!

Mentioned in Hilya tul Awliyaa’a by Abu Nu’aim Al Asbahaani (Rahimahullah)

Suhaib reported that Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him) said:

Strange are the ways of a believer for there is good in every affair of his and this is not the case with anyone else except in the case of a believer for if he has an occasion to feel delight, he thanks (God), thus there is a good for him in it, and if he gets into trouble and shows resignation (and endures it patiently), there is a good for him in it.
(Sahih Muslim - Book 42 no.7138)