salam maulidurrasul

a nice story from a book entitled "HEALING BODY & SOUL" by Amira Ayad i got from the last maarad

dis is in it's epilogue (but i havnt actually finished the whole book yet)

I want to end with a little story happened long ago when the Muslim army was fighting against the Persian Empire. The Muslims were defeated in the first few rounds of battle, so their commander, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (r.a) gathered his men to reevaluate their resources and position. All seemed under control: the Muslim army had a great number of fighters and a good resources; so what was the problem then? Sa'd concluded that this defeat must be a punishment from Allah for their sins, so he ordered each of them to repent and ask Allah for forgiveness and check for any misdeed that he had committed or any act of worship he had forgotten to perform. All the men were good Muslims, with sincere intentions and the true will and power to fight the enemies. Still, he insisted, they must have neglected some of Allah or His Prophet's orders. They wen through the obligatory and the non-obligatory acts of worship, and then through the entire Sunnah of the Prophet to find their weak point. Finally, Sa'd realised that they had been neglecting the Sunnah of siwak. They were not using siwak as our Prophet used to do before prayer. How strange it seems: men at the battlefront who thought that their weak point was that they were not brushing their teeth five times a day!

Sa'd ordered for the siwak sticks to be distributed to each Muslim in the army and asked them all to follow our Prophet's Sunnah. No one argued, no one questioned his commander's reasoning; no one asked what siwak had to do with winning or loosing the battle against the strongest army on the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, the Persian army had sent spies to check on the Muslim's camp. The Persians at that time looked upon the Arabs as primitive, uncivilized nation, so when the spies reached the Arabs' camp and saw them rubbing their teeth with sticks, they failed to understand what was going on, until one of them shouted: "they are sharpening their teeth to eat us alive; they are cannibals!"

The Persian spies ran back to their camp and the news spread like wildfire. The whole army panicked, and most of the Persian fortresses were abandoned and fell easily into the Muslim's hands.

Do you see the moral of the story? Do not underestimate even seemingly insignificant orders form Allah and His Messenger (s.a.w) (the Qur'an and the Sunnah), even if you do not understand the wisdom behind it.

der...funny n wise isnt it?

i copied word by word from the book n overall the book is very interesting to spent ur free time...:)

salam Maulidurrasul - uhibbu ya Rasulullah~