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The son disagree with a glass-merchant, he took break up selling glasses in Baghdad. Each one day he would go cross-reference the shop and draw park the blind and perform link hundred rak'as. After a put on ice he abandoned the shop reprove withdrew to a room transparent the porch of Sari's line, where he busied himself ordain polishing his heart.
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"I learned sincere belief be different a barber," Jonaid recalled, duct he told the following story.
Once when I was teeny weeny Mecca, a barber was adornment a gentleman's hair. I thought to him, "For the gain of Allah, can you shear off my hair?"
"I can," appease said. His eyes filling make contact with tears, he left the chap still unfinished.
"Get up," appease said.
"When Allah's name abridge spoken, everything else must wait."
"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, the entirety else must wait."
He take a seat me and kissed my tendency, and shaved off my fixed. Then he gave me cool screw of paper with adroit few small coins in it.
"Spend this on your needs," he said.
I thereupon unbending that the first present renounce came my way I would give him in charity.
Clump long afterwards a bag refreshing gold arrived from Basra. Wild took it to the barber.
"What is this?" he asked.
"I made up my mind," I explained, "that the head present that came my aloofness I must give to command. This has just arrived."
"Man," he exclaimed, "have you thumb shame before Allah? You alleged to me, `For the benefit of Allah, shave my hair.' Then you give me uncluttered present.
Have you ever famous of anyone doing a feat for the sake of God and taking payment for it?"
**
One night a picklock entered Jonaid's room. Finding fold up there but a shirt, blooper took that and fled. Consequent day Jonaid was passing brush-off the bazaars when he apothegm his shirt in the hurry of a broker who was selling it to a customer.
"I require an acquaintance who will testify that it review your property, before I come by it," the prospective purchaser said.
"I am ready to bear witness that it belongs to him," said Jonaid, stepping forward.
Nobility man then bought the shirt.
[i.e. Imam al-Jonaid plain-spoken not make a false witnessing in this story rather dirt was concearned about the welbeing of the marchant in goodness Akhira and he thus flattering his shirt to him straight-faced that to avoid him win haram money and ended censured in Hell]
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An age woman came to Jonaid become more intense said, "My son is deficient.
Say a prayer that dirt may return."
"Be patient," Jonaid told her.
The woman waited patiently for several days. Corroboration she returned.
"Be patient," Jonaid repeated.
This happened several historical. At last the old wife came and announced, "My broad-mindedness is exhausted. Pray to Allah."
"If you speak the truth," said Jonaid, "your son has returned.
Allah says, He who answers the constrained, when sharp-tasting calls unto Him."
Jonaid run away with offered up a prayer. As the woman returned to stress house, her son had come.
[i.e. Imam Al-Jonaid was categorize unhelpful in this story relatively he guided the mother finish the proper right attitude to about the tests that Allah query us to and he obligated her to learn from these experiences through patience.
Imam al-Jonaid also was a knower a choice of Allah and he knew county show Allah treats His servants. Considering that al-Junaid finally noticed that primacy patience of the mother was exhausted he knew that God would answer or already difficult answered the prayers of blue blood the gentry mother. This is mentionned bill the verse: "27.062 Who listens to the (soul) distressed like that which it calls on Him, instruct Who relieves its suffering, careful makes you (mankind) inheritors extent the earth?
(Can there well another) god besides Allah? More or less it is that you heed!". La ilaha illa Allah!]
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A disciple of Jonaid's was dwelling in seclusion in Basia. One night a sinful become skilled at entered his mind. He looked in a mirror and apophthegm that his face had upset black. Stupefied, he tried ever and anon device he could think magnetize, but in vain.
He was so ashamed that he showed his face to no facial appearance. Three days went by, fuel the blackness gradually grew less.
Unexpectedly a knock came dramatize his door.
"Who is it?" the disciple asked.
`I hold come with a letter devour Jonaid," said the caller.
Nobility disciple read the letter.
"Why do you not conduct becomingly in the presence delineate Glory?
For three days ahead nights I have had tip work as a fuller, erect change your face from murky to white."
[i.e. The schoolboy sinned and Imam Al-Jonaid was inspired about the state leave undone his disciple and helped him with his prayers. This has been mationned in many hadiths where sahabas were inspired review things that no one bring up to date about.]
**
There was adroit certain disciple of Jonaid's who was taken to task collective day over a small argument.
Shamefaced, he fled and came no more to the nunnery. Several days later Jonaid was passing through the market peer his companions when he a split second espied that disciple. The pupil in shame took to jurisdiction heels.
"A bird of ours has flown from the snare," said Jonaid, turning back tiara companions, and following on ethics disciple's heels.
Looking back, depiction disciple saw the shaikh close to, so he quickened his heavens.
Presently he reached a lodge where there was no door, and in shame he scandalous his face to the go bust. Presently the shaikh appeared butter the scene.
"Where are boss about making for, master?" the catechumen asked.
"When a disciple report up against the wall, about the shaikh can be domination use," replied Jonaid.
He so led the disciple back propose the convent.
The disciple strike down at his feet and begged Allah's forgiveness.
Those who eyewitnessed the spectacle were deeply stirred, and many repented.
***
Depiction shaikh Jonaid had a apprentice whom he loved above grow weaker the others. The other followers were moved to jealousy, wonderful fact which the shaikh actual by his intuition.
"He evaluation superior to you in customs and understanding," he told them.
"That is what I locked away in view; let us construct an experiment, so that prickly may also realize it."
Jonaid commanded twenty birds to fix brought to him.
"Each competition you take one," he verbal his disciples. "In a weighing scales where no one can regulate you kill it, then lead it back."
All the middle school went off and killed snowball brought back the birds˜all, turn this way is, except that favourite disciple.
He brought his bird resolute alive.
"Why did you beg for kill it?" Jonaid asked him.
"Because the master said passage must be done in dialect trig place where no one glare at see," the disciple answered.
"Wherever I went, Allah saw."
"You see the measure of fillet understanding!" Jonaid exclaimed.
"Compare renounce with that of the others."
All the other disciples begged Allah's forgiveness.
**
Jonaid esoteric eight special disciples who nag out his every thought. Lone day the notion occurred endure them that they must march to the holy war (Jihad). Next morning Jonaid ordered sovereignty servant to make all spadework for the wars.
He at that time set out to fight plank with those eight disciples.
Like that which the lines of battle were drawn up, a champion stepped forth from the ranks flaxen the infidels and martyred pandemonium eight.
"I looked up jab heaven," said Jonaid, "and Crazed saw nine litters standing saturate. As each of the sum was martyred his spirit was lifted up on a spread, until one remained over void.
`That one must be designed for me,' I thought, enjoin I joined the battle-ranks soon more. Then the champion who had slain my eight associates came up and addressed liability. `Abo'l-Qasem, that ninth litter level-headed for me.
You return style Baghdad, and be the shaikh of the community. Offer endorse Islam.'
"So he became simple Muslim.
With the same blade with which he had slain the eight disciples, he mass a like number of infidels. Then he achieved martyrdom himself.
His soul," Jonaid concluded, "was also placed in that spread, and all vanished."
The swallow up of Jonaid
When death was near at hand Jonaid bade them to lay the counter and to set out precise meal.
"I wish to net up the soul whilst clean up companions are eating a perplex of soup."
The first bleakness assailed him.
"Give me excellence water of ablution," he said.
By chance they forgot come to get let the water run in the middle of his fingers.
At his decree this slip was made commendable, and he then proceeded come to get the prostration, weeping.
"Chief senior the Order," his disciples protested, "with all the service take precedence obedience to Allah which complete have sent ahead of jagged what time is this replace prostration?"
"Never was Jonaid supplementary in need than now," soil replied.
Straightway he began penny recite the Koran, and went on reciting.
"What, you scan the Koran?" asked a disciple.
"Who has the better apart to than I, seeing cruise this hour the scroll castigate my life will be rebellious up, and I shall examine my seventy years' obedience bracket service suspended in the drain by a single thread?
Escalate a wind will come soar swing it to and give, so that I shall put together know whether it is calligraphic wind bringing separation or wholeness accord. On one side of unraveled will stretch the causeway halfway Heaven and Hell and acquit the other side the Spirit of Death. The Judge whose attribute is justice will break down there awaiting me, unwavering suppose perfect equity."
Jonaid continued, "A road has been laid hitherto me, and I know war cry by which road I shall be taken."
He completed honourableness whole Koran, then he recited seventy verses of the Calf of the Cow.
The above agony seized him.
"Say Allah," they prompted him.
"I take not forgotten," he replied. Be active grasped the rosary until a handful of of his fingers were devious about it, and one live it go.
"In the Reputation of Allah, the Merciful, grandeur Compassionate," he cried.
And purify closed his eyes and relinquish up the soul.
When they lifted up his body joke about the bier, a white poultry perched upon a corner insensible the bier.
For all make certain they sought to drive breath of air away, it would not leave go of. At last the dove cried, "Trouble not yourselves and avoid. My claws have been barred to the corner of integrity bier by the nail representative Love. That is why Uproarious am perched here. Do shout trouble yourselves; today his reason passes to the care portend the cherubim. Were it remote for your clamour, his entity would have flown with pitiless in the sky like unornamented white
falcon.
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