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25. Aslam al-Tusi.

He was famous saint and he did great worship and devoted much attention to mystic exercises during his time. He used to act upon the tradition strictly so he was called Lisan Rasool which means tongue of the prophet.

Once he was going on the camel and Isaque Bin Zaheriya was holding the camel’s bridle and in that condition they reached Naishapur. He was wearing a shirt of woolen cloth and a felt cap was on his head and a bag of books he was carrying on his shoulder. His preaching was so impressive that 50,000 persons left their lives of sins and followed the right path.

He was imprisoned and punished severally for the period of complete two years on the charge of not saying Quran a creature. In the prison he used to take bath on every Friday and he used to go to the jail gate but he was returned back by the jail guards so upon his return he used to say “ Oh ; Allah I have fulfilled my duty so you do whatever you like.”

When he was released from the jail and at that time the ruler Abdullah Bin Zaher was in Naishapur and all courtiers were present in his court to pay him their respect. The ruler asked the courtiers is any famous persons not come over there to pay their respect to him. The persons replied him two persons were absent and they are Ahmed Harab and Muhammed Aslam. Because both are great learned men and worshipers and they never visit the court to pay their respects to the ruler. Upon hearing this the ruler told the courtiers that he will visit them and pay his respect to them. When he first visited Ahmed Harabi’s house and he was in the condition of engrossment and he raised his head and told him “ Oh ; Abdullah you are very handsome so don’t waste your youth and handsomeness in the disobedience of Allah. ’’ After that he reached the house of Muhammed Bin Aslam but due to the Friday prayer preparations work he did not called him into his house but Abdullah Bin Zaher stayed outside of his house on his horse back waiting for him till the end of his Friday prayer. When he came out side of his house Abdullah Bin Zaher get down from his horse and kissed his feet and told “ Oh ; Allah as I am very bad so your beloved friend is my enemy. As he is your beloved friend to whom I love him so for his sake forgive me.” He left Tosi and settled down in Naishapur and the mosque in which he used to worship become holy one. As he resided in Tosi for many years so for this reason he is called Tosi. But he is from Arabic origin.

One pious person saw him in Rome in his dream that Satan fallen down from the sky and due to his fall the earth where he was fallen was pressed down. So that pious person asked the Satan “Why it was happened to him?.” The Satan replied him that “ Due to expectoration of Aslam Tosi who made this after ablution and this sound made me fear and so I fell down from sky to the ground.”

There was a canal of water in front of his house but he never used the water from there as he thought that it was constructed for the public purpose. When the water of canal was dried so he pulled the water from the well and filled the canal but  he collected only one bottle of water from there.

He used to help beggars by taking money on loans from others. Once a jew demanded his loan amount suddenly and at that time he did not have any amount with him. But at that time he sharpened his pen and its one part was laying there on the ground so he given the same to the jew and asked him to go. When the jew saw the same and which converted into the gold. For this reason the jew thought in the religion of Islam such great saints are there so it will be not wrong religion and he became Muslim immediately due to his above thought.

Some body asked with Abu Ali Farmedi during his preaching time that learned persons are heirs of the holy prophet so mention the names of such great personalities. He then pointed towards Aslam Tosi and told him they are like him.

When he was ill in Naishapur and his neighbor saw him in his dream and he told him in the dream “ To day I will be free from the wordly grief and sorrow ’’. When he was wake up and he went to his house to know interpretation of his dream till then he already left this world.

Upon his death the persons covered his dead body with his blanket which he used to cover his body during life time. At the same time two women who were walking on the way and they told “ Oh ; sorrow today Muhammed Aslam left this world and this world could not deceive him and he took with him excellence and qualities.”

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================================================================================ Twenty FIFTH EPISODE from Tazkeratul Aoulia by Sheikh Farid-ud-Din Attar (Book of Muslim Saints and Mystics)

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================================================================================== Translated from Urdu to English by Muhammed A. Hafeez, B.COM. Email: hafeezanwar@yahoo.com H.NO. 16-11-16/1/21, SALEEMNAGAR COLONY, AL-MADINA COTTAGE, FIRST FLOOR, FLAT NO.3, AL-SULAIMAN APARTMENT, Hyderabad-36, (India)

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================================================================================== Reference Books

1. Tazkeratul Aoulia by Sheikh Farid-ud-Din Attar (Book of Muslim Saints and Mystics), Urdu translation published by Majedi Book Depot, Kanpur in the year 1383 A.H., India.

2. Tazkeratul Aoulia by Sheikh Farid-ud-Din Attar (Book of Muslim Saints and Mystics), Urdu translation published by Anwar Book Depot, Delhi ,India.

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