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me that there was some nejâsat [1] on my sandals. So I took them
off.’ Is it possible for Allâhu ta’âlâ, who protects you from dirts
by sending you Wahy even during namâz, to allow your blessed
wives to smear themselves with such a dirt? Had such an atrocity
been committed, He would have let you know immediately. Let
your blessed heart not feel sad. Allâhu ta’âlâ will definitely send
the Wahy and inform you that your blessed wife is pure.” These
statements pleased Rasûlullah all the more. He immediately
honoured hadrat Abû Bekr as-Siddîq’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’
home with his presence.
Hadrat Âisha relates: That day I wept continuously. I had a
woman visitor from the Ansâr. She was weeping, too. My mother
and father were sitting with me. All of a sudden Rasûlullah came
and greeted us. He sat beside me. He had never come to see me
since that event, which had taken place a month before. Nor had
any Wahy been revealed. Sitting down, the Messenger of Allah
paid hamd-u-thenâ (thanking, praising and lauding) to Allâhu
ta’âlâ. He said the Word Shahâdat. Then he turned to me and
said, “O Âisha! They told me so about you: If you are not as they
say, Allâhu ta’âlâ will inform soon that you are true. If a sin has
taken place, then make tawba and istighfâr! Allâhu ta’âlâ will
accept the tawba of those people who make tawba for their sins.”
Upon hearing Rasûlullah’s blessed voice, I stopped weeping. I
turned to my father and told him to answer. My father said,
“Wallahi (I swear on the name of Allah that) I do not know how
I should answer the Messenger of Allah. We were idolaters in the
era of nescience. We used to worship human statues. We did not
know how to worship properly. No one could say such things
about our women. Now our hearts have been brightened with the
halo of Islam. Our homes have been illuminated with the light of
Islam. And yet all people are spreading such rumours about us.
What should I say to Rasûlullah?” Then I turned to my mother
and told her to answer. She said, “I am astonished. I am at a loss
as to what to say. You explain it.” Then I began to talk. I said: I
swear by Allâhu ta’âlâ that the rumours that have reached your
blessed ears are all lies. If you believe them, you will not believe
me whatever I say. Allâhu ta’âlâ knows that I am quite innocent.
If I say ‘Yes’ about something I have not done, I will have
[1] Any sort of dirt which must be cleaned from one’s clothes before
performing namâz. Please see the sixth chapter of the fourth fascicle
of Endless Bliss.
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