Book Name:Rishtay Daron Kay Sath Acha Sulook Kejiye

Did not fulfil the right of sister!

On page 77 of ‘130 Parables of devotees of Rasool along with holy sites of Makkah & Madinah’ published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, a publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami, it is stated: Sayyiduna Mujahid Bin Yahya Balkhi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said, ‘There was a Khurasani person who had been living in Makkah Mukarramah for 60 years. Very pious and ascetic[1], he would recite the Holy Quran during the day and perform Tawaf the whole night. He had friendship with a righteous person who entrusted 10 thousand dinars to his Khurasani friend and went on a journey. When he returned from his journey, he was informed that his Khurasani friend had passed away. He went to his heirs and asked for his dinars but they said that they did not know about them. The pious person then mentioned this event to the Islamic scholars in Makkah Mukarramah. They said that they were hopeful that the deceased Khurasani would be a Heaven-dweller. They advised the pious person to go to the well of Zam Zam after midnight and call his deceased friend in these words, peeping into the well of Zamzam, ‘O Khurasani! I entrusted something to you. Where is it?’ He would reply.

The pious man did as he was advised but received no reply from inside the Zamzam well. He then contacted the Islamic scholars of Makkah Mukarramah and informed them of the situation. Expressing sadness, they said that perhaps the Khurasani person was not among those blessed with Heaven; otherwise his soul would have been in the well of Zamzam. The scholars then advised the pious man, ‘Now go to Yemen where there is a well called Barhoot. After you reach the well of Barhoot, call him in the same way. That well lies at the corner of Hell. The souls of Hell-dwellers are in it.’ Hence he went to Yemen and called him peeping into the Well of Barhoot, ‘O Khurasani! I entrusted something to you. Where is it?’ The pious man said that after some time he heard the voice of the deceased Khurasani friend. He asked him, ‘How have you come here? You were very pious and ascetic.’ The Khurasani replied, ‘I had a disabled sister whom I did not use to care and broke off relations with her. That’s why all my acts of worship were ruined, and I am being tormented now.’


 

 



[1] Uninterested in the worldly pleasures.