A Brother like That
Shuaib received an automobile from his brother as a
Eid present. On Eid day when Shuaib came out of his
office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny
new car, admiring it. "Is this your car, Uncle?" he
asked. Shuaib nodded. "My brother gave it to me for
Eid." The boy was astounded.
"You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't
cost you nothing? Boy, I wish..." He hesitated. Of
course Shuaib knew what he was going to wish for. He
was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what
the lad said jarred Shuaib all the way down to his
heels. "I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a
brother like that." Shuaib looked at the boy in
astonishment, then impulsively he added, "Would you
like to take a ride in my automobile?" "Oh yes, I'd
love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes
aglow, said, "Uncle, would you mind driving in front
of my house?" Shuaib smiled a little. He thought he
knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his
neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile.
But Shuaib was wrong again. "Will you stop where those
two steps are?" the boy asked. He ran up the steps.
Then in a little while Shuaib heard him coming back,
but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little
crippled brother. He sat him down on the bottom step,
then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to
the car.
"There she is, uncle, just like I told you upstairs.
His brother gave it to him for Eid and it didn't cost
him a penny. And some day I'm gonna give you one just
like it...then you can see for yourself all the pretty
things in the Shop windows that I've been trying to
tell you about."
Shuaib got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of
his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in
beside him and the three of them began a memorable
holiday ride. That Eid, Shuaib learned what the
Rasul-Allah meant when he had said: "love for your
brother what you love for yourself".
Leo Imanov
Abdu-lLah
AllahsSlave
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{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in
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(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I
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camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
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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."
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