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A blind beggar's testament: 'He has never scolded

me!'

In the corner of the marketplace of Madinah, was a blind Jewish beggar, who would cry out
daily to all those who came near him," O my brothers, don't be near Muhammad! He's a
lunatic, he's a liar, a sorcerer! If you are to be close to him, you will be influenced by him!"

No matter whoever approached him, the blind Jewish beggar will definitely not waste his
chance to incite them to hate the Prophet Muhammad, Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam (peace
be upon him)!

All kinds of curses would spew forth from the beggar's lips even though he had never known
the Prophet personally!

The news about the blind Jewish beggar's daily cursing and badmouthing him came to the
knowledge of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

Even then, the Holy Prophet Muhammad did not get angry and he ignored the blind Jewish
beggar's insults against himself!

On the contrary, from that day onwards, at each morning, the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi
Wassallam visited the blind beggar and brought food for him!

Without saying a single word, the Blessed Messenger (peace be upon him) would feed the
beggar with his own hand!

The blind beggar would chew the food being fed to him and eat contentedly. Once he was
full, he'd express his gratitude without knowing that the one who had fed him was the Holy
Prophet of Allah, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!
The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam continued to feed the blind beggar
without fail each day till the day he died! Throughout his service to the blind beggar, he
never identified himself to the blind Jewish beggar!

After the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam had passed away, no one brought
food to the blind beggar anymore!

The blind Jewish beggar waited daily and was perplexed as to why the kind man did no
longer come to feed him and provide for him as he had done all this while.

The blind beggar waited in vain for the kind gentleman who had never missed visiting him
each and every morning all these while .
~~~
One day, the closest Companion of the Holy Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, Saiyidina
Abu Bakar As Siddiq @ The Truthful One, Radhiallahu Anhu (May Allah be pleased with
him) visited the home of his daughter, Saiyidatina Aishah, Radhiallahu Anha (May Allah be
pleased with her), the widow of the Blessed Messenger (SAW).

Abu Bakar asked Aishah, " O my child, is there any habit of my beloved (Prophet) that I have
yet to carry on?"

Aisyah replied, " Dear Father, you are verily a follower of the Sunnah (Habits) of the Prophet
and there is none that you have yet to do except for one deed only!"

" What is that?" asked Abu Bakar.

"Every morning, the Prophet of Allah will go to the end of the marketplace, bringing food to a
blind old Jewish beggar who lives there and feed him by his hand," said Aishah.

The next day, Abu Bakar As Siddiq went to the marketplace with food for the blind beggar.
Abu Bakar As Siddiq approached the beggar and started to feed him.

At the first handfull of food being fed to him, the blind Jewish beggar became angry and
shouted out ," Who are you?"

Abu Bakar answered " I am the one who usually feeds you every morning".

"No! Don't you lie to me!" objected the blind beggar.

Abu Bakar was shocked, thus he asked" Why do you say so?"

Answered the blind Jewish beggar," Because when he comes to me, I always felt it easy to
hold his hand and found it easy to chew the food he fed me! The man who used to feed me
would make the food fine before feeding it to me!"

Abu Bakar As Siddiq could not hold back his tears anymore and he burst out crying and had
to disclose who he actually was to the beggar.

"Verily, I am not the one who used to come and feed you. I am one of his Companions for
the noble one is alive no more! He was none other than the Blessed Prophet of Allah,
Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!"

"Muhammad?" asked the blind old Jewish beggar, totally shocked with what he had just
heard.

"You mean to tell me that the one who came each morning without fail and fed me by his
hand was Muhammad?" asked the beggar.

"Yes! It was Muhammad!" answered Abu Bakar.

Immediately, the blind old Jewish beggar wailed out in despair and cried so pitifully coming
to realize that it was none other than the Holy Prophet who had been feeding him all this
while.

"All these while!...all these while, I had been cursing him, I had been slandering him!

Not once has he ever scolded me ! He kept coming every morning to feed me! He is so
noble!.." cried the old blind Jewish beggar as he wiped away his flowing tears on his cheeks.

The blind beggar reached out to Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq, the first Caliph of the
Muslims and testified before him the Kalimah Shahadah :

'Ash har doo Allah ila ha ill lall Lah! Wa ash har doo anna Muhammad darr Rasulullah!'
declaring that There is No God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah!

From that moment onwards, the blind old Jewish beggar became a Muslim. @};-

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