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tried to misguide him by condemning the saint but this time with a strong will and confidence, he entered the hut of the saint. He was highly impressed by the sermons preached by the saint. He told the saint that his (the Saint) knowledge and distractions were unique but he could not yet understand why he had kept a bottle and a bowl with him. Due to this, the people condemn you as a drunkard.
The Saint Yusuf smiled and replied in his mysterious way that he had no pot for water. He got that bottle and bowl from on the bank of a river. He washed and cleaned them and kept with him for water drinking. The merchant said, “Sir, the defame is due to these things.” The Saint
Yusuf smiled and began repeating the same mysterious manner and told, “Brother! Therefore I have kept these things with me. Due to defame, more people do not come to me. I myself want a few people come to me so that I might pay most of my time to God and his worshipping. Think merchant! if there were no defame, would you not have dropped your beautiful maid with me? See how beautiful maid with me? See, how beneficial is it for me that I am free from every problem.”
How strange the way of the Saint! To live a life of Saint and to worship God, even he accepted defame. It is the tendency of the world that we get here lesser respect but much defames. We get the lesser occasions of success but get many occasions of failure. Every success contains a story of failures. Ultimately, there is no person in the world who has not to face profit loss, life death, fame-defame and success-failure or victory-defeat. If we do not give a place to the arrangements of nature, to our heart and head, if we do not get believe in all these arrangements, every man will take steps to endanger his life even hundreds of times during his lifetime. Endangering life is a sin. It is an offence. It is not a solution of any problem. The solution is to change the mentality. 48
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