Sultan Murad IV, the Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire from 1623-1640, would often anonymously go into the midst
of the people and see their state. One evening, he felt an uneasiness
in himself and the urge to go out. He called for his head of security
and out they went. They came to a busy vicinity, and found a man lying
on the ground. The Sultan prodded him but he was dead and the people
were going about their own business. Nobody seemed to care about the
dead man lying on the ground.
The Sultan called upon the people.
They didn't recognise him and asked him what he wanted. He said, "Why is
this man lying dead on the ground and why does no one seem to care?
Where is his family?"
They replied, "He is so and so, the drunkard and fornicator!"
The Sultan said, "Is he not from the Ummah of Muhammad (saw)? Now help me carry him to his house."
The people carried the dead man with the Sultan to his house and once
they reached, they all left. The Sultan and his assistant remained. When
the man's wife saw his dead body, she began weeping. She said to his
dead body, "May Allah have mercy on you! O friend of Allah! I bear
witness that you are from the pious ones."
The Sultan was
bewildered. He said, "How is he from the pious ones when the people say
such and such about him? So much so that no one even cared he was dead!"
She replied, "I was expecting that. My husband would go to the tavern
every night and buy as much wine as he could. He would then bring it
home and pour it all down the drain. He would then say, 'I saved the
Muslims a little today.' He would then go to a prostitute, give her some
money and tell her to close her door till the morning. He would then
return home for a second time and say, 'Today, I saved a young woman and
the youth of the believers from vice.'"
The people would see him
buying wine and they would see him going to the prostitutes and they
would consequently talk about him. One day I said to him, "When you die,
there will be no one to bathe you, there will be no one to pray over
you and there will be no one to bury you!"
He laughed and replied, "Don't fear, the Sultan of the believers, along with the pious ones shall pray over my body."
The Sultan began to cry. He said, "By Allah! He has said the truth, for
I am Sultan Murad. Tomorrow we shall bathe him, pray over him and bury
him."
And it so happened that the Sultan, the scholars, the pious people and the masses prayed over him.
We judge people by what we see and what we hear from others. Only if we
were to see what was concealed in their hearts, a secret between them
and their Lord. If Allah knows, why does it matter who knows and who
doesn't know?!
"O you who believe, abstain from many of the
suspicions. Some suspicions are sins. And do not be curious (to find out
faults of others), and do not backbite one another. Does one of you
like that he eats the flesh of his dead brother? You would abhor it. And
fear Allah. Surely Allah is Most-Relenting, Very-Merciful." (49:12)
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