There is a story about a Shaykh who walked into the city of Delhi one day during the height of the Mughal Dynasty in India. He went to the town square and in the midst of the scholars there bellowed out a warning, “Hey y’all Delhi folk! Behave!” The Friends of Allah who saw the fellow walk off were soon approached by the scholars and townspeople alike, asking about that fellow. Who was he, and where did he get the nerve to say what he said. The Friends of Allah, too, were initially surprised: a spiritual scan of the fellow yielded no remarkable state. Nor was the fellow’s immediate spiritual guide in his hometown of any great strength. Peering even farther back, however, they realized the grandshaykh of the fellow was of an extremely high caliber. Thus gained that man the authority to put the entire city of Delhi on notice.
Sometimes, in this world, we are tugged by the pull of subtle gravitational forces such as the sun, the moon, or even Earth’s gravity if on a slope. Sometimes a solar flare will put a vibration through the mechanisms and electronics of our world. Sometimes we inherit money; sometimes we get a grandparent’s royalties because of our lineage.
Take stock of your inheritances to more perfectly fulfill your duties. Sometimes you can tug back, aware of a ripple effect light years later.
Was she made aware of the prophecies of fitna, of the seditious mob in his final years that would surround their house? We know a loving home can avert sadness, but did she know her loving marriage could avert the deaths of thousands by delaying civil war and martial law? What prophecies did she know that have been lost to time and yet were mixed into the supernatural peace that surrounded the venerable Caliph ‘Uthman in the final days of his life as he read Qur’an in the midst of the hottest summer.
Be the coolness of my eyes.
‘A’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married away his daughter Umm Kulthum, he said to her, ‘Your husband, of all men, is the one who most resembles your grandfather Ibrahim and your father Muhammad.’
Ibn ‘Umar said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘We find a resemblance in ‘Uthman to our father Ibrahim.’