Jumu'ah: "The Power To Ask And To Grant Forgiveness" (3) [TheSecond Quadrant]

Chapter 113. Falaq  -  Dawn

     1. Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn

     2. From the mischief of created things;

     3. From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads;

     4. From the mischief of those who practice Secret Arts;

     5. And from the mischief of the envious one as he practices envy.

Narrated Hisham's father:

The people used to send presents to the Prophet on the day of 'Aisha's turn. 'Aisha said, "My companions (i.e. the other wives of the Prophet) gathered in the house of Um Salama and said, "0 Um Salama! By Allah, the people choose to send presents on the day of 'Aisha's turn and we too, love the good (i.e. presents etc.) as 'Aisha does. You should tell Allah's Apostle to tell the people to send their presents to him wherever he may be, or wherever his turn may be." Um Salama said that to the Prophet and he turned away from her, and when the Prophet returned to her (i.e. Um Salama), she repeated the same, and the Prophet again turned away, and when she told him the same for the third time, the Prophet said, "O Um Salama! Don't trouble me by harming 'Aisha, for by Allah, the Divine Inspiration never came to me while I was under the blanket of any woman amongst you except her."

The object of this series is to invite us all to look into our own self and assess the possibility that WE might be in a diseased character state.  And it invites us to consider the possibility that some of our negative responses to other people is only a reflection of our own UNEVOLVED self. NAFSA LA AMMARATU.