ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABI HURAIRAH MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM THAT HE HEARD THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH PEACE AND BLESSINGS OF ALLAH BE UPON HIM SAY: << THERE WER THREE MEN OF BANI ISRAEL , A LEPER , A BALD HEADED AND A BLIND WHOM ALLAH WANTED TO TEST , SO HE SENT THEM AN ANGEL WHO CAME TO THE LEPERAND SAID : WHAT IS THE MOST LIKE FOR YOU ? HE SAID AGOOD COLOUR AND GOOD SKIN AND TO BE FREE OF WHAT MADE ME SEEM FOUL IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE . HE PASSED HIS HANDS OVER HIM, THEN HIS LOATHSOMENESS DISAPPEARED AND HE WAS GIVEN A GOOD COLOUR AND A GOOD SKIN. THEN HE ASKED :WHAT PROPERTY WOULD YOU LIKE BEST ? HE ANSWERED CAMELS OR PERHAP HE SAID COWS . HE WAS GIVEN A PREGNENT SHE-CAMEL , AFTER THAT THE ANGEL SUPPLICATED ; MAY ALLAH BESTOW GOOD FORTUNEIN IT FOR YOU.
AFTER THAT HE WENT TO THE BALD HEADED MAN AND ASKED HIM : WHAT IS MOST LIKED FOR YOU ? HE ANSWERED : GOOD HAIR AND TO BE FREE FROM WHAT  MADE ME SEEM FOUL IN THE EYES OF PEOPLE.
HE PASSED HIS HANDS OVER HIM AND THE UGLINESS DEPARTED HIM AND HE WAS GIVEN GOOD HAIR .
HE ASKED  : WHAT PROPERTY  WOULD YOU LIKE BEST ?
HE REPLIED : THE CATTLE , SO HE WAS GIVEN A PREGNANT COW . THEN THE ANGEL SUPPLICATED MAY ALLAH BESTOW GOOD FORTUNE IN IT FOR YOU.
THEN HE WENT TO THE BLIND AND ASKED : WHAT IS MOST LIKED FOR YOU ?
HE REPLYED : THAT ALLAH RESTORES MY SIGHT SO THAT I MAY SEE PEOPLE .
HE PASSED HIS HANDS OVER HIM AND HIS SIGHT WAS RESTORED .
HE ASKED WHAT PROPERTY WOULD YOU LIKE BEST ?
HE REPLIED : SHEEP , SO HE WAS GIVEN A PREGNANT EWE.
 
THE THREE MEN BRED THEIR PROPERTYS AND THEY HAD HUGE FLOCKS AND HERDS OF CAMELS , COWS AND SHEEP.
AFTER A WHILE THE ANGEL CAME TO THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN A LEPER BEFOREAND BEGGED HIM ; I'M A POOR MAN AND MU RESOURCES RAN OUT IN MY TRAVEL AND MY HOPE TO ARRIVE MY DESTINATION IS NOW DEPENDING ON ALLAH THEN ON YOU.SO IBEG YOU BY THE ONE WHO GAVE YOU GOOD SKIN AND COLOUR AND PROPERTY , I BEG FOR A CAMELBY WHICH I COULD REACH THE END OF MY TRAVEL..
HE ANSWERED : THE CLAIMS ARE MANY ( TO BE PAID )
THE ANGEL SAID : I SEEM TO RECOGNISE YOU , WEREN'T YOU A LEPROUS ONE WHOM PEOPLE FELT LOATHING WHEN THEY LOOKED AT YOU ? A POOR AND ALLAH GAVE YOU  ( PROPERTY ) .
HE REPLIED : I INHERITED THIS PROPERTY AS A PRESTIGIOUS FROM A PRESTIGIOUS ( FATHER ).
THE ANGEL SAID : IF YOU ARE LYING , MAY ALLAH RETURN YOU TO THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN BEFORE.

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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.}
(Holy Quran-16:125)

{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]

The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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