If someone pushes me, I will remain patient and calm and avoid staring, snapping, and arguing with them.

When I hear صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب, اُذۡكُرُوا اللّٰه, تُوۡبُوۡا اِلَي اللّٰه, etc., I will reply loudly with the intention of gaining reward and encouraging others to also recite.

After the Bayan, I will approach other people by making Salam, shaking hands, and for making individual efforts upon them.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب              صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Cobbler with a pale face

A wonderful book, ‘Uyoon-ul-Hikayaat’, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, contains very interesting parables of the pious predecessors رَحِمَهُمُ الـلّٰـهُ تَـعَالٰی. Listen to one of its faith-refreshing parables: Sayyiduna Khuld Bin Ayyub رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said that a worshipper from Bani Israel spent 60 years of his life in worshipping Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, on top of a mountain. One night, he dreamt that somebody was saying: ‘So-and-so cobbler is a greater worshipper than you and his rank is higher than yours.’

Upon awakening, he thought about the dream and said to himself: ‘It is only a dream and there is no real truth in this.’ So he did not pay any attention to it. After some time, he again had a dream like the previous one in which it was said that so-and-so cobbler was greater than him. But even this time, he paid no attention to the dream. Then, third time, he was again informed about this in another dream. Upon repeatedly seeing the same thing in his dreams, he descended from the mountain and approached that cobbler. The moment the cobbler saw him, he stood up immediately in respect and kissed the worshipper’s hands out of reverence and humbly asked about his arrival: ‘Your majesty! What caused you to come out of the place of your worship?’ That worshipper replied: ‘I have come here because of you. I have been informed that in the court of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, you have a higher rank than me. Therefore, I have come to see you; now inform me of your good deed which has earned you such a high rank in the court of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ?’ The cobbler