Very Nice Story!!!!!!!!!!
VERY NICE STORY There was once a man who was going to travel to a dangerous land. He
goes to the house of a man, well known for his honesty. He knocks the
door and tells him:
I'm giving you $1440 to keep with you as I am travelling to a
dangerous place. When I get back, I only want $17 back."
The honest man stood their perplexed but agreed.
The next day, the traveller comes back to the
honest man's house and
asks him for $17. The honest man tells him that he forgot and that he
had spent it all. The traveller forgave him since he knew that this man
is honest enough to give it back later.
The next day, the same man travels to the same dangerous place and gives
the same honest man $1440 to keep and at the end of the day, he will
take $17 back. The traveller returns from his travels and asks the
honest man for his $17.
The honest man replies that he was so engrossed
in having a good time with his friends, that he spent all the money
again. Once again, the traveller forgave him, knowing he didn't do it
on purpose.
This same incident starts to happen everyday, whereby the honest man is
given $1440 and is expected to return only
$17 but fails to do so.
Later on, his child becomes sick and the doctor who was going to give
the treatment tells the honest man that if he wishes for his child to be
looked after, the fee was $1440. The honest man starts to panic
realising he can't afford $1440. It then struck him that the traveller
used to give him that same amount.
He runs to the traveller's house and asks him in a panic for $1440. The
traveller told him that due to his feeble excuses, he has stopped going
to his house as he has lost faith in his honesty.
The irony is, is that this story has once been directly relevant to each
and every single one of us. It is quite remarkable that Allah (swt)
gives us 1440 minutes each day and only specifies 17 minutes of that
back in
prayer. But due to the ignorance of people and
the whisperings
of Shaitaan the accursed, we are blinded towards the minute scale of
what we are giving back.
This story points out three things.
1. The importance of Salah and how little we have to give back.
2. The mercy of Allah that he forgives us even after such blunders.
3. The fact that we only realise how important something is (in this
case gift of wealth) until it is gone.
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