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Musk Al-Khattab | Episode (70) | A wolf speaks
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, created all beings for His worship.
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This includes humans, jinn, angels, animals, plants, and inanimate objects.
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Allah, the Exalted, fashioned them by nature to affirm His oneness and acknowledge His divinity.
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And to confess their poverty, their need, and their submission to Him, the Glorified and Exalted.
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Yet, we find something truly astonishing regarding this human being.
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In his turning away and his distance from sincere servitude to Allah, the Exalted.
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And his preoccupation with the pleasures and desires of this world.
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For this human, regrettably, is among the least of creatures in his servitude to Allah, the Exalted.
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Even though that is the very purpose for which Allah created all of creation.
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Allah, the Exalted, says:
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And because animals are creatures of Allah, the Exalted.
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They glorify and prostrate themselves before Allah.
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He also says:
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Among the wondrous manifestations of the servitude of animals.
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I recall the story of the wolf, which Imam Ahmad narrated with an authentic chain of transmission.
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On the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him, who said:
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A wolf attacked a sheep and seized it.
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The shepherd pursued it and snatched the sheep back from it.
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The wolf said to the shepherd, "Do you not fear Allah?"
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"You snatch from me a provision that Allah has driven toward me."
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The shepherd exclaimed, "How strange!"
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"A wolf speaking to me with the speech of humans!"
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The wolf replied, "Shall I not tell you of something even more amazing than that?"
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"Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is in Yathrib."
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"He informs the people of the news of what has already passed."
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He said: The shepherd then proceeded to drive his sheep until he entered Medina.
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He gathered them into one of its corners.
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Then he came to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and informed him.
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, gave orders, and it was announced:
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"Prayer is a gathering."
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He then went out and said to the shepherd, "Tell them."
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So he told them.
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said:
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"He has spoken the truth; by Him in whose hand is my soul."
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Here is a wolf that believes in the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
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And it speaks with the speech of humans.
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To confirm the sincerity of its servitude to Allah, the Exalted.
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So learn, O humans.