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Haitham Hamdan
06-28-2007, 09:53 AM
Bukhari, Muslim and other narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira RAA that the Prophet said:

None spoke in cradle but three:

(The first was) Jesus,

(the second was), there a man from Bani Israel called Juraij. While he was offering his prayers, his mother came and called him. He said (to himself), Shall I answer her or keep on praying? (He went on praying) and did not answer her, his mother said, O Allah! Do not let him die till he sees the faces of prostitutes. So while he was in his hermitage, a lady came and sought to seduce him, but he refused. So she went to a shepherd and presented herself to him to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her and then later she gave birth to a child and claimed that it belonged to Juraij. The people, therefore, came to him and dismantled his hermitage and expelled him out of it and abused him. Juraij performed the ablution and offered prayer, and then came to the child and said: O child! Who is your father? The child replied: The shepherd. (After hearing this) the people said: We shall rebuild your hermitage of gold, but he said: No, of nothing but mud.

(The third was the hero of the following story) A lady from Bani Israel was nursing her child at her breast when a handsome rider passed by her. She said: O Allah ! Make my child like him. On that the child left her breast, and facing the rider said: O Allah! Do not make me like him. The child then started to suck her breast again. (Abu Huraira further said: As if I were now looking at the Prophet sucking his finger (in way of demonstration.) After a while the people passed by, with a lady slave and she (i.e. the child's mother) said: O Allah! Do not make my child like this (slave girl)!, On that the child left her breast and said: O Allah! Make me like her. When she asked why, the child replied: The rider is one of the tyrants while this slave girl is falsely accused of theft and illegal sexual intercourse.

Haitham Hamdan
06-29-2007, 11:39 AM
Bukhari, Muslim and other narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira RAA that the Prophet said:

Prophet Abraham emigrated with Sarah and entered a village where there was a king or a tyrant. (The king) was told that Abraham had entered (the village) accompanied by a woman who was one of the most charming women. So, the king sent for Abraham and asked: O Abraham! Who is this lady accompanying you? Abraham replied: She is my sister (i.e. in religion). Then Abraham returned to her and said: Do not contradict my statement, for I have informed them that you are my sister. By Allah, there are no true believers on this land except you and I. Then Abraham sent her to the king. When the king got to her, she got up and performed ablution, prayed and said: O Allah! If I have believed in You and Your Apostle, and have saved my private parts from everybody except my husband, then please do not let this pagan overpower me. On that the king fell in a mood of agitation and started moving his legs. Seeing the condition of the king, Sarah said: O Allah! If he should die, the people will say that I have killed him. The king regained his power, and proceeded towards her but she got up again and performed ablution, prayed and said: O Allah! If I have believed in You and Your Apostle and have kept my private parts safe from all except my husband, then please do not let this pagan overpower me. The king again fell in a mood of agitation and started moving his legs. On seeing that state of the king, Sarah said: O Allah! If he should die, the people will say that I have killed him. The king got either two or three attacks, and after recovering from the last attack he said: By Allah! You have sent a Satan to me. Take her to Abraham and give her Ajar. So she came back to Abraham and said, 'Allah humiliated the pagan and gave us a slave girl for service.

Haitham Hamdan
06-30-2007, 11:10 AM
If someone raises the point: the Prophet ASWS said that he will recognize his ummah on the day of judgment because of light glowing from the parts which get washed is wudu, so how could wudu have been prescribed to other nations as well.

Response: The scholars say that wudu’ was prescribed to previous nations. However, having this glow on the day of judgment is specific to this ummah only.

Wallahu A’lam.