AG Ahmad

  Moral Story No: 21 Always Speak the Truth Robbers Turn Good Citizens Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gillani (God be pleased with him) had to undertake a journey, when he was yet a young boy. His pious mother stitched up forty gold coins in his shirt. She advised her son to speak the truth always. He joined a caravan and set off on his journey. When the caravan entered a forest, a gang of robbers fell on the travelers and deprived them of all their valuables. While they were busy robbing everyone, a robber happened to pass by the  young boy. He said, "Boy, do you have anything on you?" "Yes" came the prompt reply, "I have forty gold coins." The robber asked the young boy to show the money which he readily did. The robber took the boy to the leader of the gang. Like all other robbers, the leader was not a little surprised. He said, "Why did you not deny having money?" Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gillani (God be pleased with him) told the r...