Qarun and His Pleading

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Once a woman falsely accused Hadrat Musa e of illicit behavior at the behest of Qarun, and Hadrat Musa e was very hurt and angry when the truth was finally revealed. He cried to Allah in his desperation, “O Allah! He accused me of such a falsehood!”

Allah can never bear His Prophets to be in pain, so for a limited time He commanded the earth to fulfill Hadrat Musa’s e bidding. Allah said, “My beloved Prophet, the earth will obey your every command.”

Hadrat Musa e in his anger commanded the earth to swallow Qarun, and hence Qaran sank in the earth up to a fraction of his body. Hadrat Musa e issued the same command and so Qarun sank deeper in the ground. Qarun started to weep loudly and beg for forgiveness but Hadrat Musa e was at the peak of his anger and issued a third and final command for the earth to swallow Qarun and thus Qarun disappeared into the earth.

When Qarun was finally gone Allah said to Hadrat Musa e, “My beloved Prophet, you were in anger and commanded the earth three times to swallow Qarun. I swear on My Own Honor and Anger that if I was deciding the issue and Qarun was begging forgiveness I would have surely forgiven him.” Allah loves His creation coming to Him for repentance and such a deed is very valuable to Allah.

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Abu Madhura was a youth at the time of the Messenger of Allah who had not accepted Islam as of yet. One day he was seated with some friends laughing and mocking Hadrat Bilal’s call to prayer [adhan] when the Messenger of Allah passed by. Seeing him all the children ran away except Abu Madhura, who was the oldest of the group and felt ashamed to run like the others.

The Messenger of Allah summoned him closer and Abu Madhura reluctantly complied. He started sweating in apprehension but the Prophet calmly assured him not to be frightened and further asked him to continue the Muslim call to prayer exactly as he had been reciting it earlier. Thus Abu Madhura started imitating Hadrat Bilal’s call as he had done earlier and a change seemed to come over him as he reached Ash-hadu anna Muhammadar RasulAllah.

When finished the Messenger of Allah told him that he could go but Abu Madhura hesitated. He now said to the Prophet, “Abu Madhura will now only go wherever the Messenger of Allah goes.”

A moment earlier this boy had been mocking Islam’s call to prayer but as his eyes fell upon the Messenger of Allah, Allah in His infinite mercy turned the mockery into reality and opened Hadrat Abu Madhura’s heart to Islam. Hadrat Abu Madhura later became the keeper of the keys to the Kaa’ba and the prayer caller of Makkah where he performed the call to prayer for the next sixty years.

May it also be so that Allah accepts our poor imitation and turns it into reality and rectifies our hearts through our poor efforts at trying to rectify our appearance to match that of the Messenger of Allah. Amin.

O my Creator I have brought a resemblance of Your beloved.
I have merely brought an appearance so please turn it into reality.

[ummati rasullullah]

thats a beautiful incident.

[KEUNIT]

Those are both so inspirational... JazakAllah for them. BTW where do you get these from?