Tolerance in Islam (Ibn e ZaibBhikari)

As Muslims we follow Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), who possessed the most polite and ideal behavior.You have read in the previous episodes thathow patiently he dealt with the non-Muslims. Now let’s read about his follower’s nice behavior.

A Jew lived in the neighbor of HazratBayazidBastami (Allah’s mercy be upon him).Once a child kept crying all the night in his neighbor’s home. In the morning Hazrat knocked at his Jew neighbor’s door.  A lady replied from inside that there was no man in the home. HazratBayazidBastami introduced himself and asked if everything was alright. The Jewish lady told that many months ago her husband went on a journey. During his absence she gave birth to his child who kept crying all the night. When Hazrat asked that why the child had been crying in the night she replied that it was too dark in the home and she did not have money nor was someone there to bring oil. She was living on the grain which her husband left at home before leaving. Hazrat went straight to his home and brought everything for her.Before evening, the holy man called BayazidBastami by the world was standingin front of the Jew’s door holding the oil bottle. For many days Hazrat kept on providing that lady with all the necessities so that her child would not cry in the darkness of night. After a few months that Jewish lady’s husband came back from his journey, the lady told everything to her husband. The Jew was very happy and he went to HazratBayazidBastami to say thanks to him. Hazrat said that there was no need to say thanks as whatever he did was his duty and if he had not have done that, it would have been extremely sinful as in our religion Islam, neighbors have great rights. The Jew requested Hazrat that he also wanted to protect himself under the divine mercy of that religion and wanted to convert to Muslim faith by reciting the Kalimataught by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) because of whichAllah has given you great respect. Hazrat taught him Kalimaand converted him to Islam.