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In front of the gate of a large company, there was a famous samosa shop. During lunch hours, company employees would often come there to eat samosas. One day, a manager of the comp...
Getting his shoes polished by the old man sitting on the pavement near the office was a regular routine for him. However, a strange thing I had been noticing for the past several d...
Abul Kalam says: One night at dinner time, my mother placed curry and a burnt roti (bread) in front of my father. I kept waiting for my father's reaction, thinking he might expr...
Once, a king visited the soldiers' mess hall (langar khana) and checked the cleanliness, which was up to mark. He then asked what had been cooked for the soldiers. The answer came:...
A king once said to his minister, "I don't understand one thing: I have every luxury and comfort of the world, yet my heart is not happy. On the other hand, my servant has nothing—...
A woman hurriedly boarded a bus and sat down on a seat next to another woman. Her purse accidentally hit the woman sitting next to her, causing her pain. The woman remained sile...
A blind man was sitting near a building, and a board was placed beside him which read, "I am blind, please help me." Next to it lay his hat containing a few coins. A man was pas...
A king always kept his head covered. No one had ever seen him bareheaded. Many people tried to uncover this secret, but every time, the king would skillfully divert the conversatio...
There was an Imam living in London. It was his daily routine to board a bus from his home to travel to the distant mosque. While traveling on the same route at fixed times, it ofte...
Hazrat Bilal (R.A.) was once asked by someone, "How did you see the Holy Prophet ﷺ for the very first time?" Hazrat Bilal (R.A.) replied, "I knew very little about the people of Me...
Imam Abu Yusuf (R.A.) served as the Chief Justice (Qadi al-Qudat) of the entire Islamic world during the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Once, a legal dispute between Caliph Harun...
Imam Jalaluddin Rumi (R.A.) has written that a man once set out on a journey. He kept walking through a dense forest for a very long time until exhaustion overtook him, and he was...