Unparalleled Devotee

with devotion, this angel dives into water and shakes his wings. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ creates an angel in place of each droplet of water dripping from his wings. These angels then continuously seek forgiveness for the person who had recited alāt until the Day of Judgement. (Al-Qaul-ul-Badī’, p. 251; Al-Kalām-ul-Waḍa’-fī-Tafsīr Alam Nashraḥ, pp. 242-423)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الْحَبِیۡب                       صَلَّى الـلّٰـہُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

A wonderful incident of childhood

On page 60-61 of Malfūāt-e-A’lā arat, Part 1-4 [the 561-page publication of Maktaba-tul-Madīnaĥ, the publishing house of Da’wat e Islāmī] it is stated: Sayyidunā Abū Bakr رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ had never prostrated to idols. Once in his early childhood, his father took him to a temple (idol house) and said, ‘These are your majestic and gracious gods, prostrate to them.’ When Sayyidunā Abū Bakr iddīq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ came in front of the idol, he said to it, ‘I am hungry, give me food, I have no clothes, give me clothes, I will throw a stone; if you are a god, protect yourself.’

How could that idol answer! He رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ threw a stone at the idol and it fell to the ground. On seeing that, his father became angry and slapped him on his blessed face. His father then took him from there to his mother and told her the whole story. She said, ‘Leave him on his way, for when he was born, a voice from the unknown source was heard saying, ‘O truthful servant of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Congratulations - this child is ‘Atīq [freed], in the

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