Hadith 175

India, and I asked around about the man, so it was said to me, ‘He has built a monastery in a mountain, so he has become such that he neither comes out nor is seen except twice during every year’. And the Indians were alleging that Allah-azwj Burst out a stream for him in his monastery and the Indians were alleging that it is cultivated for him from without any planting occurring in it, and it is farmed for him from without any farmers working on it. I ended up to its door and I stayed there for thee (days) not knocking the door nor trying to open the door. When it was the fourth day, Allah-azwj Opened the door and a cow came over. Upon her was some firewood. Her udders were flowing such that there almost came out from these whatever was in her udders from the milk. She pushed the door, so it opened wide, and I followed her and entered. There, I found the man standing looking towards the sky then weeping, and looking at the earth and weeping, and looking at the mountain and weeping. I said, ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! How scarce are the likes of you during this time of ours! ’ He said to me, ‘By Allah-azwj! I am not, except for a good deed from the good deeds of a man you have left behind your back’. I said to him, ‘I am informed that with you are Names from the Names of Allah-azwj by which you can reach Bayt Al-Maqdis every day and night and return to your house’. He said to me, ‘And do you recognise the Bayt Al-Maqdis (the Holy House)? ’
I said, ‘I do not know except of the Bayt Al-Maqdis which is in Syria (Jerusalem of today)’. He said, ‘It isn’t the Bayt Al-Maqdis, but the Bayt Al-Maqdis (the Holy House) is the house of the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww’. I said to him, ‘But, I have not heard with it up to this day of mine that it is Bayt Al-Maqdis’. So he said to me, ‘There were the prayer Niches (Mihraabs) of the Prophets-as, and rather it used to be called ‘Hangar of the prayer Niches’, until there came the gap, which was between Muhammad-saww and Isa-as, and killings and the afflictions from the people of Polytheism and released the Curses in the houses of Satansla. They transformed and changed and turned over those Names; and these are the Words of Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted in its esoteric (meaning) the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww, and the apparent it is a parable: Surely, these are only names (which) you and your fathers have named. Allah did not Send any Authorisation of it. [53: 23]’. I said to him, ‘I have come to you from a distant city, exposed to oceans, and sorrows, and worries, and fear. In the morning and evening I was despairing that I would not be succeeding with my need’. He said to me, ‘I do not see your mother to have carried you except an Honourable Angel would have been present, nor do I know that your father, when he intended to copulate with your mother, except he would have washe