Thread by @RayTilde

A story that made me cry 😭

Sultan Abdulhamid II and a dream of the prophet (SAW)

One day, the sultan’s adviser met him and said: “there’s a mad man that keeps coming to the palace saying that you owe him some money.”

The sultan commanded the advisor to summon the mad man.

When the mad man came, the following conversation took place.

Sultan: why will you say you have your money with me?

Mad man: My sultan, I am a businessman, I got bankrupt and I am heavily in debt.

I prayed to Allah every night before I sleep, your majesty

I saw last night, our prophet (SAW) he said to me “Tell our Abdulhamid that he remembers us by sending salawat every night and that he forgot to recite them last night, go and seek your need from him”

The sultan, being a great lover of our prophet (SAW) was shocked!

He stood up and was amazed by the way the prophet addressed him — “Our Abdulhamid”

The sultan gave him a bag of gold coins 💰 and asked him to repeat how the prophet addressed him — “Our Abdulhamid”. Whenever he repeat what the prophet (SAW) said, the sultan will..

Give him another bag of gold coins, they repeated this about 5x before the sultan dismissed him upon the intervention of the adviser.

When the man left, the adviser said to sultan Abdulhamid: “ I feared that he may take everything you have”

Sultan Abdulhamid replied: “I swear by Allah, had he sought all my wealth and kingdom, I would’ve given him! I was working last night, I dozed off on my table and forgot my salawat, I made a mistake, may Allah forgive me.”

This is a sufi that loves the prophet (SAW) deeply. He was the last great sultan of the Muslim ummah, he helped the ummah in many ways and helped in delaying the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

May Allah (SWT) bless Sultan Abdulhamid with Jannatul Firdaus, amin.

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