Why Did They Become Muslims

hunter has ensnared me,” whimpered the deer. “I have two
sucklings on the hill over there. Please do let me go! I’ll go, milk
them, and come back.” The Prophet ‘alaihis-salâm’ asked, “Will
you keep your promise and come back?” The deer pledged, “I
promise in the name of Allâhu ta’âlâ that I shall come back. If I
don’t, then may the torment of Allâhu ta’âlâ be on me!” The
Messenger of Allah set the deer free. She ran away, coming back
sometime later. The Messenger of Allah tied her again. When the
man woke up and asked, “O the Messenger of Allah! Is there
something you want to order me to do?” the Prophet stated,
“Emancipate this deer!” The deer was so happy that she stomped
her two feet on the ground, exclaimed, “Ash-hadu an lâ ilâha il-l-
Allah wa annaka Rasûlullah (I believe in and testify to that Allah
exists and He is One and you are His Messenger),” and capered
away.
13– One day he invited a villager to become a Believer. The
villager defied, “I have a Muslim neighbor. I will believe in you if
you resuscitate his dead daughter. They went to the girl’s grave,
where Rasûlullah pronounced her name aloud and called her. A
voice answered from the grave, and she came out. “Would you like
to come back to the world,” questioned the Messenger of Allah.
The girl said, “Yâ Rasûlallah! I do not want to go back to the
world. I feel more comfortable here than I used to back in my
father’s home. A Muslim is better off in the Hereafter than in the
world. When the villager saw this he joined the Believers.
14– Jâbir bin Abdullah ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ roasted a
sheep. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and his Sahâba [1]
ate it. “Do not break the bones,” ordered the blessed Messenger.
He gathered the bones together, put his blessed hands on them,
and prayed. Allâhu ta’âlâ enlivened the sheep.
15– A child was brought to Rasûlullah. It could not talk, though
it was old enough. “Who am I?” asked the Messenger. The child
replied, “You are the Messenger of Allah.” From then on he
began to talk and did not lose its speech till death.
16– Someone inadvertently stepped on the eggs of a snake and
lost his sight entirely. They brought him to Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
[1] A Muslim who saw, or talked to the Messenger of Allah at least once
when the Messenger was alive is called a Sahabî. The Sahâba or the
As-hâb-i-kirâm means all the Sahabîs, i.e. the Companions of the
Messenger of Allah.
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