\u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) once set off for a battle when he noticed that some of his armour was missing. After the battle was over, he returned to Kufah. While in Kufah he one day happened to see a Jew with the same armour he had lost! He immediately confronted the Jew saying, \u201cThe armour is mine! Neither did I sell it, nor did I give it away!\u201d The Jew, however, denied this claim and said, \u201cThe armour belongs to me and, furthermore, it is in my possession.\u201d On hearing his denial, \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) suggested that they go to the qaadhi (judge). The Jew agreed and they were soon in the presence of Qaadhi Shurayh (rahimahullah).<\/p>\n
Qaadhi Shurayh (rahimahullah) asked \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) to present his case first to which he stated, \u201cThis armour, which is in the hands of the Jew, belongs to me. Neither did I sell it, nor did I give it away.\u201d Qaadhi Shurayh (rahimahullah) then turned to the Jew and asked him, \u201cWhat do you have to say, O Jew?\u201d the Jew once again denied the claim saying, \u201cThe armour is mine and furthermore, it is in my possession.\u201d Qaadi Shurayh (rahimahullah) thereafter turned to \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and enquired, \u201cDo you have any proof, O Ameerul Mu\u2019mineen?\u201d \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) replied, \u201cYes! Qumbur and Hasan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) will testify that the armour is mine.\u201d Qaadhi Shurayh (rahimahullah) rejected this evidence saying, \u201cThe testimony of the son is not accepted when in favour of the father (referring to the testimony of Hasan [radhiyallahu \u2018anhu]).\u201d<\/p>\n
When the Jew heard the decision of Qaadhi Shurayh (rahimahullah) in his favour, he immediately exclaimed, \u201cThe Leader of the Muslims took me to his own judge and his own judge passed judgement against him in my favour? This, really, is truth!\u201d The Jew then recited the shahaadah and accepted Islam. (Taareekhul Khulafaa\u2019 pg. 184)<\/p>\n
Lessons:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. The Jew was so impressed at the justice of Islam that he instantly renounced Judaism and accepted Islam. If we once again live our lives according to the principles of Islam, we will become beacons of guidance and attract disbelievers around the world to Islam through our sublime character.<\/p>\n 2. We, as Muslims, are all representatives of Islam. Unfortunately, when our behaviour is incorrect, we not only give the world at large a negative impression of Islam but even give them the chance to mock and ridicule Islam due to our wrong actions.<\/p>\n 3. Justice and fair treatment need to be exercised in every aspect of our lives. If we have a domestic worker at home, justice demands that we don\u2019t keep her back even a single minute overtime, we are timeous in paying her, we don\u2019t accuse her of stealing etc. without having proof to back our accusation, and we don\u2019t extract such work from them which is more than what they can manage. Let us all ask ourselves, \u201cHave I, through my conduct, attracted my domestic worker to Islam or have I distanced her from Islam?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}