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Excellence of Tolerance
2. Giving Dua even to the one who was oppressive
It is written in ‘Iḥyā al-ꜤUlūm’, Volume 3, page 216: ‘Once, Sayyidunā Ibrāhīm b. Ad-ham رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه travelled to a desert where he came across a soldier.
The soldier asked him: ‘Are you a slave?’
He replied: ‘Yes.’
He then asked: ‘Which way is the town?’
Sayyidunā Ibrāhīm b. Ad-ham رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه pointed towards the graveyard.
The soldier said: ‘I am asking about the town.’
Sayyidunā Ibrāhīm b. Ad-ham رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه then said: ‘That (very place) is the graveyard.’
Hearing this, the soldier became angry and he whipped him on his head, and took him towards the town after injuring him. Sayyidunā Ibrāhīm b. Ad-ham’s رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه companions saw him and asked the soldier: ‘What happened?’
The soldier explained the matter. The companions told the soldier that he is (the wali of this era) Sayyidunā Ibrāheem b. Adham رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه. Listening to this, the soldier came down from his horse, began to kiss his hands and feet and asked for forgiveness.
Sayyidunā Ibrāhīm b. Ad-ham رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه was asked: ‘Why did you say that you are a slave?’
He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه replied; ‘He (the soldier) didn’t ask me whose slave I was. He just asked are you a slave? So, I said ‘Yes! Because I am the slave of Allah Almighty. When he hit me on my head, I asked Allah Almighty to grant him Paradise.’
BOOK TOPIC
- Excellence of reciting Ṣalāt upon the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- Excellence of tolerance
- Speech intentions
- Exemplary tolerance!
- Forbearance of Sayyidunā Amir MuꜤāwiyah رَضِىَ اللهُ عَـنْهُ
- What does tolerance mean?
- What does Satan want?
- Virtue of tolerating and forgiving
- Whispers of Satan!
- 1. Forgiving someone is after being capable of taking revenge!
- 2. Giving Dua even to the one who was oppressive
- 3. Freed the slave
- Refrain from anger to become tolerant!
- Cures for anger
- Encouragement for Pious Deed No. 14
- Sunan and etiquettes of cutting the nails
- Announcement
- 2. All sins forgiven
- 1. The ṣalāt for the night preceding Friday
- The six ṣalawāt and two duꜤāˈs recited in the Sunna-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami
- 3. Seventy portals of mercy
- 4. The reward of 600,000 Duroods
- 5. Nearness to the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- 6. The ṣalāt of intercession
- 1. Good deeds for 1000 days
- 2. An easy way to spend every night in worship
- Weekly gathering schedule for 30th April 2026
- Remaining sunan and etiquettes of cutting the nails
- Dua to be recited after sneezing
- Method of collective accountability (72 Pious Deeds)
- Method of collective accountability (72 pious deeds) daily 56 pious deeds
- Record of qufl-e-Madinah
- Ten weekly pious deeds
- Three monthly pious deeds
- One yearly pious deed
- Two lifetime pious deeds
- The Amir of Ahl al-Sunna’s dua
