NOURNEWS - 1. An anecdote from Bayazid Bastami*
It is said that the sheikh was a Gabr or Zoroastrian neighbor and had an infant and cried all night because of the darkness, which had no lights.
Sheikh, turning on a light every night and took it to infant’s house, so that the child could be turned off.
When Zoroastrian man returned from the trip, the child's mother recounted the Sheikh's story. "When the light of the sheikh came, he was reluctant to go back to our darkness," Zoroastrian man said. Immediately, he came and became a Muslim.
Born: 804 AD, Bastam/ Died: 874 AD, Bastam
2. Scandal
Jonaid had a disciple in Basra. The disciple, one day in solitude, he sinned in his mind and looked in the mirror and saw his face black. He was surprised. Whatever he did, it didn't work. Out of shame, he didn't turn to anyone. When three days passed, the blackness of the part decreased. Suddenly someone knocked on the door. He said: "Who is it?” I brought a letter from Jonaid," he said.
The disciple read the letter. He had written: "Why don't you be polite to God? “I’ve been washing for three days and nights to turn black into white!"
3. Mad man
It is said that a man asked a madman, "Do you know the great name of God?" The madman said, "The great name of God is bread, but this cannot be said anywhere." The man said: Ignorant, be ashamed! How is the great name of God, bread? The madman said: I was wandering in the famine of Neishabour city for forty days and nights, I did not hear the call to prayer anywhere and I did not see the door of any mosque open. That's why I found out.
*Bayazid Basṭami, was an Iranian Sufi from Bastam - Shahroud, and north-central Iran.
*Dr. Seyedhossein Hosseiniseddiq is a faculty member at the Islamic Azad University
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