THE GREATEST WORSHIPPER

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Category: Hadhrat Yoonus (alayhis salaam)

Created: Friday, 12 September 2014 14:44

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Once Hadhrat Yoonus (alayhis salaam)   requested Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) to show him the greatest Aabid (worshipper) of Allah Ta'ala. Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) delivered Hadhrat Yoonus (alayhis salaam) to a man whose both hands and feet had fallen off because of the disease of leprosy. This worshipper was supplicating: "O Allah! You allowed me to use these limbs as long as You had desired. When you had desired, you snatched them away and preserved me."

Hadhrat Yoonus (alayhis salaam) said: “O Jibraeel! I had enquired about a worshipper who spent the days fasting and the nights in ibaadat." Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) said: “Before this calamity he was engrossed in such ibaadat. I have now been commanded to snatch away his eyesight." Then he made an indication with his finger, and the Wali’s vision was snatched away. The Wali said:  "O Allah! You allowed me the eyes until You had desired to snatch them away, and You have preserved me.'

   Then Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) said to the worshipper: "Let us both make dua and supplicate to Allah Ta'ala to restore your vision and your limbs to enable you to engage in ibaadat as you had been doing."  The worshipper said: “I do not wish for it." Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) asked: “Why?" He said:  "Since this is the pleasure of Allah, I am pleased with it."

   Hadhrat Yoonus (alayhis salaam) commented: "I never saw a greater worshipper than this man." Hadhrat Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) said: "There is no better way of ibaadat than this way."