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Jhoota Chor | The Lying Thief
Let’s all proclaim together:
We are at war against lying!
Neither would we lie, nor would make others lie, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـهعَزَّوَجَلَّ.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
6. The truthful shepherd
Sayyidunā Nāfi’ رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ has mentioned: Sayyidunā ‘Abdullāĥ Bin ‘Umar رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهُمَا was once travelling with some of his companions. They stopped at a place and laid out a dining mat for having meal. In the meantime, a shepherd came there. Sayyidunā ‘Abdullāĥ Bin ‘Umar رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهُمَا said to him, ‘Come and have some food.’ He replied, ‘I am observing fast.’ Sayyidunā ‘Abdullāĥ Bin ‘Umar رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهُمَا said, ‘Are you observing (supererogatory) fast in this intense hot day even though you are herding goats in these mountains!’ He responded, ‘By Allah (عَزَّوَجَلَّ)! I am doing this to compensate for my previous days.’
Intending to test his piety, Sayyidunā ‘Abdullāĥ Bin ‘Umar رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهُمَا asked him, ‘Will you sell one of your goats to me? I will give you its price as well as its meat so you can break your fast with it.’ He replied, ‘These goats do not belong to me. They belong to my owner.’ To test him further, Sayyidunā ‘Abdullāĥ Bin ‘Umar رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَـالٰی عَـنْهُمَا said, ‘You may say to your owner that a wolf took away one of the goats.’ The slave said, ‘Then where
BOOK TOPIC
BOOK TOPIC
- Du’ā for Reading the Book
- Transliteration Chart
- Table of Contents
- THE LYING THIEF
- Excellence of Ṣalāt-‘Alan-Nabī صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم
- 1. The lying thief
- Thief will be scratched and eaten by two snakes
- 2. The lying thief bearing the crooked stick
- 3. Children of the liars turned into pigs
- The liar’s face will change into the face of a dog in Hell
- 4. Consequence of relating a false dream
- 5. The liar’s jaws were being ripped a part
- 6. The truthful shepherd
- 7. Telling the truth saved his life
- 24 Examples of lies common among children
- Useful Madanī pearls for both the children and the adults
