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‐Explain to me what you have said; otherwise I will ordered you to be killed between al‐Safa and
al‐Marwa!
So the chamberlain begged Harun, saying:
‐Pardon him for Allah and this Standing Place!
So the Bedouin laughed at his words, and Harun was angry with him and asked him:
‐What has made you laugh?
‐I wonder at you, for I do not know who is the more ignorant than you, who makes slow the death
that has come or who makes haste the death that has not come yet.
Al‐Rashid commanded:
‐Explain what you have said! ‐As for my words: the (religious) duty is one, they are that the whole
of Islam is one and it has five ritual prayers that are seventeen rakka‘s: forty‐three sajjdas, forty‐
nine takkbirs, and a hundred and fifty‐three tasbihs. As for my statement: one out of twelve, it is
that fasting during the Month of Ramadan is one out of twelve months. As for my statement: one
out of forty, it is that whoever has forty dinars, Allah has made it incumbent on him (to pay) a
dinar. As for my statement: five out of two hundreds, it is that whoever has two hundred dirhams,
Allah has made it incumbent on him (to pay) five dirhams. As for my statement, one throughout
(life) time, is the hajj of Islam. As for my statement: one for one, it is that whoever sheds blood
unjustly, then it is obligatory to shed his own blood. Allah, the Most High, has said: life is for life.
So Harun (al‐Rashid) admired the Bedouin’s abundant knowledge, saying: “What a generous
man!” Then he ordered him to be given a purse of money. So the Bedouin asked:
‐What made me deserve this purse of money? Through speech or through your questioning me?
‐Rather through speech.
‐I am going to question you about a certain matter. If you answered it, the purse of money would
be yours in order to give it as alms in this Holy Place. If you did not answer it, you had to add
another purse of money to it, that I might give it as alms to the poor of the district from among
my people.
Accordingly, Harun ordered another purse of money to be brought and said to him:
‐Ask about whatever you like!
‐Tell me about the beetle: Does it feed or suckle its young?
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