THE FEAR OF FAME: A LOST CHARACTERISTIC: One day ibrahim ibn Adham passed by the gathering of al-Awzai (rahimahullah) and saw that a large number of people had gathered. So he said, If all this crowding was around Abu Huraira, he would have departed from it. This reached al-Awzai who got up and abandoned the gathering from that day on. Ibrahim ibn Adham was an amazing personality mashaAllah; he tried hard to keep away from the people in fear of them mentioning him too much. But his fame shot up and his name became so widespread to the point that it was said one time He is in the garden (where he worked tending to crops), so the people entered it, encircling it, saying Where is Ibrahim ibn Adham? So he began to encircle along with them saying, Where is Ibrahim ibn Adham?! * [*Point being here that his name, character and reputation was known but he himself was hardly seen so they didnt recognise him!] He (rahimahullah) said: My eye never found solace and delight in a day of this world except once.. I spent the night in a mosque in one of the villages in al-Sham whilst I had a stomach sickness. The muadhin then grabbed me by my leg and dragged me out of the mosque! He found solace in this because the man did not recognise him and he did not leave the mosque as he was ill and illness had made him remain in the mosque. SUBHAABALLAHU LAAKUWWATA ILLAH BILLAH.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:46:27 +0000
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