There was a student
who told his ustad that you have taught us that this Quran is a diamond and it has great value
wherever we who know the Quran go they treat us like rubbish
you see the mawlana the sheikh the imam the hafiz in the community how does the community
treat that person that is how much Barakah and blessings there will be in that community
so this young student asks his ustad he says
you told us the Quran has the most value ever why is it that wherever we go we find people treating
us badly when we tell them Allah said this this is haram this is halal don't do this and do this and
don't dress like this and don't be found in this company and don't do this type of business dealing
why is it that they don't even value us this ustad was very intelligent he gave this young boy a
a stone
stone and told him oh my student take the stone take the stone and go to the market place
ask its value from the cobbler you know the cobbler is the one who men's shoes
and don't sell it to him but ask him how much are you prepared to pay for the stone
hear what he says after that go to the butcher and ask the butcher how much are you prepared to
pay for the stone don't sell it to him but hear what he says and after that go to the carpenter
don't sell it to him ask him how much are you prepared
to pay for the stone and finally when you're done with everything go to the jeweller
and ask him the same question but don't sell it bring it back to me
he went to the cobbler he says i'm selling a stone the cobbler looked at him and says whole day i see
hundreds of these stones i'm not interested in buying it he said please i want to sell the stone
he says okay i'll give you five dollars for this five dollars is approximately
how many rents how many i see
there's a dispute here but whatever it is maybe the land is fluctuating as we speak
grant us is anyway so five dollars he said okay no problem i'm not selling it let's see he went
from there to where to the butcher he says to the butcher i'm selling the stone the butcher
says i'm not interested in buying it i don't buy stones i don't buy dirt i don't buy rubbish
so he said what do you mean make an offer he said no you leave it here
free if you want i'll throw it away for you did you hear that from there he went to the
carpenter the carpenter says if you want me to take this stone you pay me five dollars
how's that i'll get rid of it for you if it's giving you a bit of an irritation
this young student shook his head and he says you know what i don't even know what's going on here
i don't understand what is the whole wisdom behind what my ustad has told me anyway quietly half the
day was over it was hot he decided let me go to the jeweller that was my last part of the errand
and it's almost lunch time and i'm also a little bit hungry and so on he entered the jewellers
and he asked them listen i'm telling the selling the stone how much are you prepared to offer
that's a dirty stone full of mud and whatever else and the jewellers looked at it they they shined it
a little bit and they went to call the boss the man at the back please come forward they came
we shined it a bit more looked at it with a bit of a you know this little magnifying glass they have
looked at the young boy he said where did you get this from he says no i'm selling
it on behalf of someone he says who is he i can't tell you but i'm saying it says listen
are you sure he says yes we've never seen such a stone before
it's lunch time we're supposed to close but no problem we lock these doors so
that no one comes in let's do a little bit of research here let's try and check
they checked the stone they shined it it turned out to be a diamond a very very expensive diamond
they told us man we're offering you 50 000 for this thing
he was shocked man you was shocked he says you're offering me so much are you sure
he says not only that if you don't want to sell it to us we are going to put it in a case for
you with a lock and we are going to send two armed guards with you walking out of this store
because it's not safe with what you have it's not safe it's what do you mean the owner says listen
i'm the owner here i've been dealing in stones for so many years this is a rare gem rare gem
he said no no no let me come back let me go and see who the owner is and tell him they said we
won't allow you to leave here it's dangerous they sent him this ustad is sitting back there
and he sees this man coming with a big red box and there's two people walking next to
him and he came in his ustad made him sit down he says you see i knew this was going to happen
you are telling me that the people are not valuing the quran when we said the quran is like a diamond
look i gave you a real diamond no one values it unless there is someone who knows it in
indeed a virtue in someone is only known by another who has a similar virtue