Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiAllahu anhu) was caliph. The month of the fast had come round. A crowd of people ran to the top of a hill to draw a good omen from the sight of the crescent moon. 'See, Umar!' cried on. 'The new moon!' Umar did not see any moon in the sky. 'This moon,' he remarked to the man, 'has risen from your imagination. Otherwise, how is it that I do not see the pure crescent, seeing that I am a better scanner of the skies than you? West your hand,' he went on,' and rub it on your eyebrow, then take another look at the new moon.' The man wetted his eyebrow, and no more saw the moon. 'Yes,' commented Umar (radiAllahu anhu). 'The hair of your eyebrow became a bow and shot at you and arrow of surmise.' One hair through becoming crooked had waylaid him completely, so that he falsely claimed boastfully to have seen the moon. If one crooked hair can veil the whole sky, how will it be if all your parts are crooked?   Print this Page [Mainpage] [Dhikr] [Du'a] [Articles] [History] [Prayer] [Stories] Copyright © 1999-2006 Mutmainaa. All Rights Reserved. Kindly inform me of any typing errors or mistakes.