Down Memory Lane... children will remember you... even if years go by....!
The following is a summarized translation:
'If a person sees his daughters or his little ones playing with
toys, he should sit with them sometimes...'
During the period this incident is related, Sheikh
as-Sa'di رحمه
الله was
a major scholar, judge, Imâm and lecturer. One day, he was about to leave his
home when he saw his young daughter and her friend sitting and playing with
their toys. They had made up a skit as though they were in a room, pretending
that some objects represented tea and coffee, playing as girls normally would
do. When the Sheikh was about to leave his daughter's friend (the little girl)
asked him: ‘Why don’t you visit us?’ He رحمه الله replied, ‘I will visit you, tomorrow, insha-Allaah.’
When he رحمه الله wanted to leave the house, he stood at the
door and knocked on the door calling out his daughter’s friend by her name. She
opened the door and said: ‘Please enter.’ So, he رحمه الله came and sat with them in the area they
were playing. They sat and pretended to give him coffee and they spoke with him
and told him about their toys, and then he stood up to leave.
When he stood up, his
daughter said to him: ‘You have not been my guest.’ He رحمه الله replied: ‘Tomorrow I will be your guest.’ The next day
he رحمه
الله came
and knocked on the door and called out his daughter by her name. She opened the
door and said: ‘Please enter.’ He entered the room and sat with them
conversing and being humourous.
This DOES NOT take more
than three or four minutes of a person's time. However, his daughter cheerfully
narrates this incident (as an adult) in one of the books. This occurred once in
her youth but it brought back tremendous gush of happiness for her....
