THE STORY ABOUT THE TREATMENT FOR A TANNER

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One day a skin tanner was passing by perfume, shops in the market place. He had been all the time involved with the tanning of animal skins and had become used to the bad smell of the skins. He now happened to pass the shops selling scents. As he got the fragrant smell of the scents, he could not bear it, as he had been used to living in a bad smelling environment and bad smells had become second nature to him

When he smelt the fragrant scents from the perfume Shops, he fell down unconscious on the road. A big crowd of people gathered around him. One was reciting some Wazifa and blowing over him in an effort to revive him. Another was sprinkling rose water over him. Another was massaging the palms of his hands and feet. In spite of all these efforts, he did not recover and seemed to be sinking deeper into unconsciousness.

His brother heard what had happened and came running along. He smelt the fragrant scents and immediately understood that the scents were the cause of his unconsciousness. He announced: "Let no rose water be sprinkled over him. And let no fragrant smelling scents be brought near him". The brother went away from the scene for a short while. He brought some faeces of a dog, hidden in the sleeve of his shirt. Moving through the crowd he came to his brother and held the dog's dung to his nose. The bad smell of the dung immediately revived him. The people were surprised and were wondering what strong perfume the brother had brought, which was not even found in those perfume selling shops.

Maulana Rumi (R.A.) says:
"His brother came along with dog's faeces hidden in his sleeve
And forcing his way through the crowd came to his brother.
He brought his head near to the brother as if to tell him a secret
And then brought the dog's dung to his nose and he was revived".

Lesson from this Story

Those who become perplexed and agitated at the sweet-smell of Allah's and His Rasool' s obedience and those who are not inclined to a life of following the Sunnat, should be considered as having the same sickness as the tanner in the above story. In their dirty way of life and the dirty environment of sinful living, they spend a whole lifetime, so that their heart and brains become familiar with those things and are inclined towards them.

The treatment of getting them to change that life is to slowly, step by step, get them out of that environment of sin and to make them wander around in the fragrant gardens. They should be brought to the gatherings of the saintly ones and into their. company. After frequenting these places for a couple of days, they will say: "In what dirty environment were we?" Then thinking about the life of the past, they would cry and sigh and will be very grateful for the company of the righteous ones. Now gradually there noses will become used to the fragrant scents (i.e. in the love and service of Allah) and will be able to say: ''It is as if day and night I am living in paradise, All these flowers are embroidered on the garden of my heart".

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