Sufi parable from Attar During the time of the Prophet, there lived a pious woman named Umm Abdallah, who had an eighteen-year-old son. The son fell ill with a fever and died.
But the woman did not complain and was only thinking about how to convey this sad news to her father when he returned, tired to death, from field work. When her husband returned and asked about her son, she said:
- He's sleeping, don't wake him.
She served him dinner, then he went to the mosque and slept peacefully through the night in his wife’s arms. In the morning she told him:
“Yesterday I saw something strange: our neighbors were given something for safekeeping, the owner came and demanded his things back. Then they began to cry and complain.
The husband responded to this that they were stupid: after all, they had only just freed themselves from the responsibility assigned to them. Then she told him what happened to their son. The husband saw her endurance and courageously endured the grave grief.
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