Beautiful Islamic Stories

How Perfect Allah Is!

A ruler from centuries ago, Sultan Suqailah, was an easy sleeper, but one night, he couldn't fall asleep.
           As the night passed, he tossed and turned, trying hard to fall asleep. Finally, frustrated after numerous failed attempts, he decided since he was awake anyways, he would get up and take care of some of his country's business. He ordered for the general of his small naval feet to come to him, and when he came suqailah said,
"Send one of our ships to Africa, and tell the captain of the ship to bring back news of what is happening there."
    Still not being able to fall asleep,suqailah made his way to the docks later on that night. Much to his chagrin, he saw that all of his ships were still docked at the harbour. He angrily went to his general and said,
" why didn't you carry out the orders i I gave you?"

" In fact, I did carry out your orders,"
Said the general. "I sent a ship and it Sail, but after one hour it returned. But let us go to the captain of the ship, so that he can tell you what happened that they returned.

When they reached the captain, he began to give an account of what had taken place.
"We Sail, and though we couldn't see anything because of the darkness of the night; we heard a man's voice calling out,
'O Allah, O Allah, O One who helps those who call out to you for help.'
We changed course and followed the sound of his voice, and as we drew naearer, we yelled out,  'we are coming to you.,
Finally,  when we reached him, we were able to see that he was drowning. We then quickly pulled him up to safety. He later told us that his ship had sunk and that for more than a day he was calling out for help, until we finally came and saved him."

How Perfect is Allah, who made the sultan go sleepless in his castle, so that a man could be saved from 3 kinds of darkness: the darkness of the night, the darkness of the sea, and the darkness of the loneliness.
How Perfect Allah Is indeed!. And none has the right to be worshipped but Allah.