Nasr ibn Muhammad reports that Junayd related that there was a shaykh in Damascus called Abu Musa al-Qumasi who was a man of Futuwwah (Chivalry); everyone praised him.
One day, the shaykh's house collapsed on top of him and his wife. When people began to dig in the ruins, they found his wife first. "Leave me," she said. "Go and try to find the shaykh and save him. He was sitting in a corner over there."
They left the woman, dug where she had pointed, and found the shaykh. "Leave me," he said. "Go and save my wife."
Each wanted the other to be saved. That is the state of those who are together for the sake of Allah and who are friends and brothers in the name of Allah. They are in that compassionate state at all times.
2 comments:
Thank you for this piece. I know I'm guilty of not being anywhere near this level. Sigh.....
Don't be too hard on yourself: neither are most of us, honestly.
But it is in the spirit of persevering 'on the way there', insya-Allah.
Amin...
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