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The Golden Cow By Shaykh Ahmad Ali

THE GOLDEN COW

From the Book

Allah took care of little Muzhiba and the boy. As the days passed, both grew to be healthy and strong. The boy grew up to be very good and caring just as his father had been. He loved Adah and his mother.

 His mother began to rely on him a lot in her old age, so much that he would divide the night into three parts.

For the first part of the night, he would look after his mother and take care of all her needs until she was happy.

Then In the second part of the night he would take some rest and get a little sleep, for the third and final part of the night he would praise Allah and pray to him until the sun rose in the morning.

Once the sun had risen, he would cut wood and seen it in the market, and whatever money he earned he would divide it into three parts also.

One-third of his earnings he would give to the poor and third he would give to his mother and the remaining third he would keep for himself.

One day on his return from the market, his mother sat him down and said she had something very important to ten him.

 “Now son, with Allah’s blessing you have grown up to be a very healthy, strong, good, and caring young man.

 I feel you are now mature enough to understand something that I have been waiting to ten you for a long time.” He listened carefully hardly daring to blink.

 “When you were very young and your father was still alive, he left a calf in the woods and asked Allah to look after it until you were mature enough to do it yourself. Now I think you have reached that level of maturity and it Is the correct time.

You must go in the woods and bring the cow home.”