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How fortunate is the spider!

Dear Islamic brothers! By the grace of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the Noble Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and iddīq Al-Akbar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ were successful and prosperous whereas the disbelievers who were in search were unsuccessful and disappointed. The spider prevented the search into the cave by casting such a web over the mouth of the cave that the disbelievers could not even think about spying into the cave through it. They returned disappointed and the spider was fortunate enough to earn an everlasting honour.

This has been discussed by Sayyidunā Ibn-e-Naqīb رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه in ‘Mukāshafa-tul-Qulūb’ as follows, ‘Silkworms knit a beautiful type of silk that is unrivalled, but the spider is thousands of times greater in rank than them because it knit its web over the mouth of the cave of Šaūr for the protection of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.’ (Mukāshafa-tul-Qulūb, Vol. 1, p. 57)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الْحَبِیۡب                       صَلَّى الـلّٰـہُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

An ocean was seen on the other side of the cave!

Some scholars of Sīraĥ[1] have written that when Sayyidunā Abū Bakr iddīq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ expressed that there was a danger of the enemies seeing them, the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘If they enter through here, we will go out through the



[1] The Prophet’s biography; the life of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم

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