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at a woman. She misinterpreted his attitude as fear and decided to repeat the same
mischief everyday in order to keep him frightened, so that he might stop preaching
the Oneness of God.
This gentleman whom the woman hated so much was Muhammad
ﷺ
, the last
prophet of Allah Almighty. He did not want to disappoint the woman and so continued
to walk down the street everyday, instead of picking an alternate route, and prayed
for the woman to recognize the Truth.
One day, the Holy Prophet Muhammad
ﷺ
did not find the woman to be on the roof
of her house with the basket. This worried him, because he thought something must
have happened to her for not being over there. So he knocked at the door. “Who
is it?” asked a feeble voice. “Muhammad bin Abdullah,” was the reply, “can I come
in?” The woman feared, “I am sick, and too weak to fight or talk back, therefore
Muhammad has come to take revenge for what I have been doing to him.” But the
permission to enter her house was in such a gentle voice that she allowed him in.
Muhammad
ﷺ
entered the house and told the woman that not finding her on the
roof had worried him and he thus wanted to inquire about her health. On finding
out how ill she was, he gently asked if she needed any help. Hypnotized by the
affectionate tone in the Holy Prophet’s
ﷺ
blessed voice, she forgot all fear and
asked for some water. He kindly gave her some in a utensil and prayed for her
health, while she quenched her thirst. This made her feel very guilty for being so
cruel to him in the past and she apologized for her mean behavior. He forgave her
and came to her house everyday to clean it, to feed her and to pray for her, till she
was on her feet again. The kind attitude of the Holy Prophet
ﷺ
inspired her into the
recognition of the Truth, and his prayers were answered in the form of yet another
addition into the growing number of Muslims.