13/05/2024
It is said in the Abbasid era that a Damascene merchant was always challenging his colleagues and saying to them: In my life, I have never done a trade and lost from it, not once.
His friends laughed sarcastically: How can you not lose even once in your life?
The merchant asked them to present him with a challenge
They told him that it was seventh impossible to sell dates in Iraq and make a profit because dates there are as available as dirt in the desert.
He said to them: I accepted the challenge, so he bought dates imported from Iraq and set off east to the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time.
It is said that at that time, Al-Wathiq Billah was going on an outing to Mosul, where the spring was. Mosul was one of the most beautiful cities in northern Iraq by nature, as it was called the Mother of the Two Springes because it was spring in summer and winter. His daughter had lost her necklace on the way back from the trip, so she cried and complained, so the Caliph ordered Al-Wathiq to search. Finding it enticed the residents of BaghdadThat whoever finds his daughter’s necklace will receive a great reward and he will be married to her, i.e. to the Caliph’s daughter. When the Damascene merchant arrived on the outskirts of Baghdad, he found people like crazy people heading to the mainland to search for the necklace. He asked them, “What’s wrong with you??!!
So they told him their story, and the eldest of them said, “Alas, we forgot to take food and we cannot return for fear that the rest of the world will precede us.” So he began to strike one hand with another.
The Damascene merchant said to them: I will sell you dates
So they bought dates from him at the highest prices, and he said, “I have won the challenge.”
Al-Wathiq, who was nearby, heard about the news of the Damascene merchant who sells dates in Iraq and makes a profit. He was extremely surprised by that and asked to meet him. He said to him, “Tell me about your story.”
He said to him: O my lord, may God bless you, since the day I started trading, I have not lost once
Al-Wathiq asked him the reason
He said to him: I was a poor orphan boy, and my mother was disabled, and I had been taking care of her since childhood and working and earning my living since I was five years old.
When I was twenty, my mother was about to die, so she raised her hand, praying that God would grant me success, that he would never let me suffer loss in my religion or my world, that he would marry me from the house of the most honorable people of the era, and that he would turn the dust in my hand into gold. With an involuntary movement, he grabbed a handful of dirt as he spoke.
Al-Wathiq smiled at his words, and suddenly he felt something strange in his hand. He held it in his hand and looked at it, and it was a golden necklace, and Al-Wathiq’s daughter recognized it.
Thus, from his mother’s prayer, this Damascene merchant was the first to export dates to Iraq in history and successfully, and he became the son-in-law of the confident Caliph. Glory be to God. The mother’s prayer is answered. No one will come and knock on your door to grant you a beautiful day. You are the one who must knock on the doors of your soul, open your windows, and strive to win the most beautiful, and your Lord will never let you down. Oh God, bless usBe kind to our parents, even if they are dead, then forgive them and have mercy on them.
