The Money Lender and His Purse

Once a village money lender lost his purse. He announced a reward of a hundred rupees to the person who found it and returned it to him. A poor farmer found it. It contained one thousand rupees. The farmer was poor and needy but, at the same time, he was an honest man. He went to the money lender and returned the purse to him.

The money lender opened the purse and counted the money in it. It was one thousand rupees. Then he said to the farmer, “You are a smart fellow. You have taken your reward beforehand.”

The farmer angrily asked, “What do you mean?”

The money lender said, “I mean what I say. The purse contained eleven hundred rupees. But now there are one thousand rupees in it. This means that you have already taken the reward money from the purse.”

The farmer said, “I have not taken any money from the purse. Let us go to the Judge and settle the matter.”

So they went to the Judge. The Judge heard both the parties. He felt sure that the money lender was dishonest.

He asked the money lender, “Are you sure that your purse contained eleven hundred rupees?”

The money lender said, “Yes, Sir.”

The Judge said, “Then this purse is not yours.”

And the Judge gave away the purse to the farmer.

A WRONGDOER HAS TO PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR HIS WRONG ACT.

Allah Never Hurts You

A ship drowned in deep sea and all the passangers were drowwned except one who survived and managed to reach a small, uninhabited islan. He prayed to All Might Allah, day and night, for his rescue. Every day he would scan the horizon waiting for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood and dry grass and bushes to protect him from weather and other natural clamities and to store his few possessions.

Days passed and he lived on with dieing hope to be rescued. But then one day, tired after day long scavenging for food, when he arrived home. He found his little abode in flames. The smoke shaping a whirl was rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger and cried like hell looking complainingly towards heavens.

"Allah, how could You do this to me!" he cried. Early the next morning, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. He jumped with joy to find the way to the world. The ship had come to rescue him.

"How did you know I was here?" asked the somnolent man of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied.

Moral  

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we shouldn't lose heart, because Allah is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering.