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They Are Not Ordinary People

Once there was a saint, a Sufi naturally had no worldly wealth except his knowledge of spiritualism and Sufiism.  Used to do sundries to earn his daily bread for himself and his daughter.  Wife was passed away a long time ago.  He also had a disciple who also used to help him in his works as well as learn knowledge. The daughter grew up and the saint like all the other fathers wanted to get her married, but to whom he didn’t have anything which would attract the boys to get married the daughter of a poor man. 

The saint talked to his disciple and showed his wish to give the hand of his daughter to him in marriage.  The disciple got worried because he was also a very poor man and lived nearby in a hut-like home of simply one room.  He said to the teacher that he was very poor and not a simple big house where she could be happily live with him.  The saint told him that his daughter is well educated in what he has taught her and very religious.  She would be very contented with what the boy will give her for a living.

The disciple was convinced by the teacher and they got married.  The bride shifted from his father’s hut to her husband’s hut.  The girl entered the house.  There was nothing at all in there, just a mat, simple pillow and pitcher of water, and a clay oven for cooking. Nothing else.  The girl took a cursory look of the surrounding and then started to cry. 

The boy got worried and said, “I already told your father that you will not be happy living with me, because I am very poor, and see now you are crying for this.” 

The daughter of the saint said, “I am not crying for the poverty you have, I am crying to see the bread you have kept for your future eating.  It means you do not have faith in our Lord that He will be able to give you food for your future.  I am crying because how I could live with a man having so weak faith………………………”

PS: We are ordinary people.  It is allowed to us to think about our future and make whatever is within our reach to save it. But in their world, it is considered a weak faith in  Lord.  They belong to the other world where their tests and examinations of life get tougher and tougher as they rise higher spiritually in their path.