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Lowering the gaze
• This is the narration of the story of one of the
Companions of the Prophet Sallalahu Alayhi Wa
Salaam, Tha’alaba Abdur Rahman, who was
about 16 years old. He used to always run
errands for the Prophet (peace and blessings be
upon him).
• One day the Prophet (peace and blessings be
upon him), sent his young companion to run an
errand and he was walking through the city of
Medinah and he passed by a house with an open
door, he glanced towards the door and he saw a
curtain that they used to use to cover a shower
area...
• All of a sudden he came to his senses and he
was overcome by intense feelings of guilt and
hypocrisy...
• He said to himself: “ Aoudhu Billahi”, and
he carried on “ how can I be one of the
Companions of the prophet (peace and
blessings be upon him), one that runs the
Prophet’s errands and be so horrible and
disrespectful of the lady’s privacy and the
privacy of a Muslim. Surely Allah will send
down an ayaat and mention me with the
hypocrites.”
• So due to his fear to be shown as a hypocrite
to the Prophet (sallahu Alayhu Wa
salaam), he decided to run away.
• The prophet (peace and blessings be upon
him) waited for him for hours, and for days.
• As the days went by the prophet kept on
asking if anybody had seen his young
companion.
• He then (peace and blessings be upon him)
sent Umar (ra) to look for him in the streets
of Madinah.
• When Umar (RA) came back he said to the
Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
• “ O Prophet, we looked everywhere for
him, in the streets, in the markets and the
meadows and none of us could find him.
Perhaps he will come back.”
• So the Prophet (peace and blessings be
upon him) waited.
• Then he (peace and blessings be upon him)
said:
• “ O! Umar, go and look for him in the
outskirts of Madinah”.
• So they went.
• Eventually they reached some mountains between Makkah and Madinah where they saw a shepherd looking after a herd of goats.
• The man saw that they were looking for something so he asked them what they were looking for.
• So they told him that they were looking for the boy, giving him his description.
• The goat shepherd then said:
• “ Perhaps you are looking for the young man
who is always crying...”
• They said “ well we do not know but we are
looking for such and such boy, but tell us
about the boy you mentioned.”
• “ Well on the other side of the mountain”
said the shepherd,” there is a young man. In
40 days we have heard nothing else, but him
crying. He comes down to us from the
mountain every sunset, when we give him a
little milk to drink, which he drinks while his
tears flow mixing with it.”
• So the Companions said:
• “ Can we see him?”
• The shepherd replied that they could
see him if they were willing to wait
until sunset.
• So the Companions waited in hiding..,
• Eventually they saw the young Companion appearing , sad with tears flowing down his face.
• He had lost a lot of weight and when he tried to drink his milk he could not swallow due to his crying.
• As he eventually managed to drink his milk and turned to return to the mountain, Umar(ra) and his Companions appeared.
• The young companion got very scared when
he saw them and he asked? “ What do you
want of me?”
• They said: “ The prophet (saw) wants to see
you.
• He then asked them very frightened: “ Has
Allah revealed an ayaat, naming me among
the hypocrites?”
• They replied that they did not know but that
he needed to return to see the prophet (saw).
• The young Companion begged them to leave him to die in the mountains but after a lot of struggle they managed to take him back to Madinah . The young Tha’alaba was crying more that ever on his return to his home.
• The Companions informed the prophet of his return and the prophet (pbuh) visited Tha’alaba at his home.
• When young Tha’alaba saw the prophet ( saw)
started crying and asked the prophet if an
ayaat had been revealed about him and if he
was mentioned amongst the hypocrites. The
prophet ( pbuh)replied in the negative and took
the crying boy’s head and rested it on his thigh.
• Tha’alaba then said: “ O! Prophet of
Allah, remove a head that is full of sins and
transgression from your thigh.”
• The young Tha’alaba kept on crying and he
was adamant that he was not deserving of
the kindness and compassion of the prophet
of Allah .
• The prophet (saw) then asked him: “ O!
Tha’alaba what do you want?”
• He replied:
• “ The Mercy of Allah(swt)”.
• The prophet asked him then :
• “ What are you afraid of ?”
• He replied:
• “ I am afraid of the punishment of Allah”.
• The prophet then asked him:
• “ What do you wish for?”
• He replied:
• “ I wish for the forgiveness of Allah”.
• Suddenly Tha’alaba shook.
• The prophet (saw) asked him what was the matter.
• Tha’alaba replied:
• “ I feel, as though ants are walking between my flesh and my bones.”
• The prophet (saw) said to him:
• “ If you feel that, that is death. It is coming to you”
• The prophet (saw) washed his body and
covered him, and prayed over him.
• While they were carrying him to the
cemetery...
• ... While they were carrying him to the cemetery, the Prophet (saw) was walking behind his body and he was walking...
• ...He (saw) was walking on the tips of his toes as if the area around him was very crowded.
• Then Umar (RA) said:
• “O! Messenger of Allah! People are giving
you a lot of space and you are walking on
the tips of your toes!”
• The prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied:
• “ O!Umar, Allah had mercy on him. I can not find a place to
put my foot because of the way the Angels are crowding me
over him.”
• In the later generations, after the
generation of the prophet (saw) and
the Companions ,things that carried so
much significance during their time
started to become less significant.
• Now days looking at images on TV and
magazines and internet often is taken
for granted and people are so much
used to it they do not even think about
it.
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