A Strange Incident of Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam
A Strange Incident of Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam
There was a pious Aalim living in a certain town and Hadhrat
Khidhar Alyhis Salaam would visit him every Friday. The king of that time
came to know of it and said to the Aalim, “When Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam
comes to visit you, please inform me about it. I want to meet
him.”
When Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam came to visit, the Aalim told him,
“The king desires to meet you. If you permit, I will inform him of
your arrival” Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam declined the offer. When the king
found out later on, he asked, “Why didn’t you call me?” The Aalim
presented an excuse and evaded the question.
The following Jumu`ah, he came again, but the Aalim, once again, did not inform
the king about it. Upon enquiry, he again presented an excuse to the
king and evaded the question.
On the third Jumu`ah when Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam came to meet him,
he granted him permission to inform the king of his arrival. The king
met Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam and asked, “Mention something unique to
me.” Hadhrat Khidhar Alyhis Salaam replied, “Such a vast earth and such a huge
sky and in it are different kinds of creatures. The sky does not have
pillars but in it are planets and stars. If this is not strange then what
is?” The king replied, “This is apparent to everyone. Mention something even stranger.”
He replied, “There was a time when you
were a filthy drop of semen. From the back of your father, it came to
the womb of your mother. From there you began taking different
shapes. You got your nourishment through the blood of haidh and
eventually you were born. You remained a child for some time where
you played and jumped. Then you reached the stage of youth and
today you are sitting as a king. This is also so strange.”
Again, the king repeated, “This is apparent to everyone. Mention
something even more unique?”
He said, “Once, as I was coming out of a town when I saw a person
sitting in the corner of an orchard with a basket of grapes. Seeing me
he shouted, ‘O traveller! Come here.’ When I went to him, he
weighed some grapes and gave it to me. I asked him the price to
which he replied, ‘Take it! The law of the king of this place is this
that whenever any traveller passes by, I should give him so much
(specific amount) of grapes.’
When I reached the other end, I saw another person sitting with some sweetmeats.
Seeing me he shoutedout, ‘O traveller! Come here.’ I went to him and he also weighed out
a specific amount of sweetmeats and gave it to me.
I then asked him the price to which he also replied, ‘Take it for free. The law of the
king of this place is that whenever any traveller passes by, I should
give him this amount of sweetmeats.’
I took it and moved on. After 500 years, I happened to pass by that
way and noticed there wasn’t any orchard or any inhabitants. Rather,
there was a huge river flowing there. I asked someone regarding the
orchard and the inhabitants, to which he responded, ‘We never heard
of such a thing. We have always seen and heard of a river running
through here.’ I moved on from there.
After another 500 years had passed, I again happened to pass by that way and this time there
wasn’t even a river there, but a big jungle. I enquired regarding the
river but the people mentioned, ‘We haven’t heard of any river. We
have always known this place to be a jungle.’ Thereafter I moved on
from there.
After yet another 500 years, I again passed by that place
when I noticed the same orchard; it was the same town and on either
side of the orchard was a person sitting there. When I passed by
them, one of them called me, weighed a specific amount of grapes,
and gave it to me. I asked him the price to which he replied, ‘Go! O
servant of Allah! Yesterday I explained to you that this is the law of
the king and today you ask me again for the price.’ On the other side,
the sweetmeat person gave me sweetmeats and on asking him the
price, he gave me the same answer.”
Look at it, 1500 years of Hadhrat Khidhar’s Alyhis Salaam life passed by, yet for these people it was a matter of just yesterday.
Malfoozaat of Faqeeh-ul-Ummat
