Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
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Among them, may God be pleased with them, are the men of the water, and they are a people who enmity God at the bottoms of the seas and rivers, and not everyone knows about them. Abu Al-Badr Al-Tamashaki Al-Baghdadi told me, and he was truthful, trustworthy, knowledgeable of what is transmitted, precise and memorized of what is transmitted on the authority of Sheikh Abu Al-Saud bin Al-Shibli, the imam of his time on the road, who said: I was on the beach. The Tigris of Baghdad Then it occurred to me: Does God have servants who worship Him in the water? He said, I had not finished thinking until the river had parted for a man. He greeted me and said, Yes, Abu Al-Saud, there are men who worship God in the water, and I am one of them. I am a man from Tikrit and I left it because after such and such a day will happen. There was such-and-such and such-and-such, and he mentioned something happening there, then he disappeared into the water, and when fifteen days had passed, that matter