ANOTHER KIND OF REBIRTH

March – 29 – 2012                 (Thursday)                                                           Shaikh Abdul of Gilan in Persia, was worried about the people of his faith. The Muslims around him were worldly and sensual, or else satisfied with formal rituals; there was no true spirit of God in them.  some of them are terrorists and extremists.   So he felt that he was called to preach to them. Then he had a vision.
He seemed to be walking along a Baghdad street where a sick and wasted man was lying on the roadside. The man saluted him with "salaam aleikhum", the customary greeting between Muslims. The Shaikh returned it, and then the man asked him to help him sit up. As the Shaikh did this, the figure began to grow miraculously huge in size! It frightened the Shaikh out of his wits, but the man told him in gentle tones not to be afraid.
"I am the religion of your great-grandfather. I became diseased and miserable, but God has revived me through your help."
This vision occurred on the night before Shaikh Abdul was to appear in the mosque in public and make a speech. It was a prophesy of what was to come in his life. Later on, people recognized the great contribution he had made to Islam, and gave him the name Mohy-ud-Din, "reviver of the faith. 

Moral : Originally, any religion is good and helps the people in the form preached by the founder.   When it gets corrupted and diseased in practice, it harms. Thousands of innocent people, including children and women die every year in the terrorist atrocities perpetuated by extremists in the name of religion.  Again it has to be revived by prophets who come later."