Class 5 Religious Studies: Islam

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104 Religious Studies: Islam

to come near a small hut when he was moving around the streets
of Medina. He heard the conversation of a mother and her
daughter inside the hut. The mother said to her daughter in the
morning to increase the quantity of the cow-milk after milking
the cow, mixing water. The daughter said to her mother if the
Caliph could know this, they would be punished severely. The
mother said, the Caliph or the people of the Caliph could not see
this. The daughter said to her mother, if it is not seen by Caliph
Omar (R) or his people, one must see this. Nobody can escape
His eyes. He is Allah. Allah is always watching everything.


Caliph Omar (R) returned back to home after hearing this
conversation of the mother and the daughter. He was specially
charmed by the honesty and truthfulness of the girl. He arranged
the marriage of his eligible and dear son with that truthful
daughter of the poor woman. This girl was the grandmother of
another righteous Caliph Omar Ibn Abdul Aziz (R).

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