A
Brother like That
Shuaib received an automobile from his brother as a Eid present.
On Eid day when Shuaib came out of his office, a street urchin
was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. "Is this
your car, Uncle?" he asked. Shuaib nodded. " My brother gave
it to me for Eid." The boy was astounded.
"You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost
you nothing? Boy, I wish..." He hesitated. Of course Shuaib
knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he
had a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Shuaib
all the way down to his heels. "I wish," the boy went on,
"that I could be a brother like that." Shuaib looked at the
boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added, "Would you
like to take a ride in my automobile?" "Oh yes, I'd love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow,
said, "Uncle, would you mind driving in front of my house?"
Shuaib smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted.
He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in
a big automobile. But Shuaib was wrong again. "Will you stop
where those two steps are?" the boy asked. He ran up the steps.
Then in a little while Shuaib heard him coming back, but he
was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother.
He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed
up against him and pointed to the car.
"There she is, uncle, just like I told you upstairs. His
brother gave it to him for Eid and it didn't cost him a penny.
And some day I'm gonna give you one just like it...then you
can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Shop windows
that I've been trying to tell you about."
Shuaib got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his
car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him
and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride. That
Eid, Shuaib learned what Rasullallah(sallallallahu alaiyhi
wassallam) meant when he had said: "Love for your brother
what you love for yourself ".
Source: http://www.freewebs.com/welcometomadinah/stories.htm
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