At midnight I set out with my guide, an elderly Bedouin man know as Amm Musa (or Uncle Moses). The full moon was high in the sky and lit the rocky path in front of us. Our goal was Amm Musa’s stone hut, set high in the jagged mountains of the Sinai, a good three hour hike from the famous St. Catherine’s monastery.
Madina was known as the center of Islamic schools and knowledge. People used to go there from far places to study Islam, Fiqh and Hadith.
One of these people was Onwan Basri who traveled to Madina to study Islam.
At first, he went to Anas bin Malik to study Hadith.
In a village in far-off Khurasan lived Shahryar, an honest hardworking youth and his brother Hoshyar, an indolent book-worm, who was fond of food but loath to work. When news of a job at Akhoonji’s rich farm reached their hungry ears, Shahryar begged his brother to stay back and let him go.Hoshyar, known for his laziness and gluttony, yawned, “Go forth brother, by all means, for work and I are natural foes.“Remember me when there’s food you can’t finish or hardship you cannot bear! Go forth in the name of Allah!”
The Judgment of God - A Sufi Tale
“Not so long ago, as time is counted, there came to a certain oasis far in the western desert a faqir. He was a Qalandar, a wandering darvish, who had walked the deserts of Africa and Arabia for many years, seeking only solitude wherein he could remember his Creator and contemplate the Divine mysteries.
"His virtue and faith, his submission to the will of God, had been rewarded with tranquility of spirit, and his sincerity and devotion on the path of Love was such that the Hidden had been revealed to his heart, and he had become a Wali, a Friend of God.
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