106 Religious Studies: IslamBustam in Iran. Her son always took care of her. The mother
also loved him very much. The mother asked her son for
drinking water at one evening. When the son came with a glass
of water he saw that his sick mother had already fallen in to
sleep. He did not awake his mother anticipating her discomfort
due to awakening from sleep. He thought, when mother would
awake again, he would give her water to drink. He thought, it
would be late to give her water if he himself would have fallen
into sleep. Mother would suffer. He did not sleep any more. He
had been standing for the whole night holding the glass of water
in his hand.
At the last part of the night, mother saw awakening from sleep,
the son was standing, holding the glass of water. He said to his
mother, you wanted to drink water at night, I saw no water in
the pitcher. So I had to bring water from the far away well and
then I saw that you had fell asleep again. Mother said, why
didn't you call me? The son said, I did not call you thinking you
might be disturbed.
The tears of joy fell down from the eyes of the mother hearing
this from the son, dearest of her heart. Mother prayed to Allah
with all her heart for her son's ultimate success in the world and
in the life after death Allah granted the prayer of the mother.
The son was known as the world's famous saint later on. He is
the world famous Hazrat Biazeed Bustami (R).
The prophet (Sm) said:
(Al Jannatu Tahta Akdamil Ummahati)