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Musalmaan
02-07-2007, 10:48 AM
A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbour. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later the woman responsible for spreading the rumour learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorrowful and went to a wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the damage.

"Go to the marketplace", he said, "and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road". Although, surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay, the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand. "You see", said the old sage, "it’s easy to drop them, but its impossible to get them back. So it is with gossip. It doesn’t take much to spread a rumour, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong."
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IbnAbdulHakim
02-07-2007, 10:50 AM
what a beautiful story mashaAllaah :)

jazakAllaah khair bro

:salamext:
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Snowflake
02-07-2007, 10:53 AM
cool mashaAllah!
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lyesh
02-07-2007, 10:55 AM
masha Allah!! :D very true!
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Malaikah
02-07-2007, 10:57 AM
:sl:

I hope they did something useful with the chicken after they killed... :hiding:

JK, nice story...
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Naheezah
02-07-2007, 01:33 PM
heard 'bout dat b4! gud moral in da story mashaAllah.:)
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tomtomsmom
02-07-2007, 02:02 PM
very very true bro.
great post!
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Khayal
02-07-2007, 04:11 PM
:sl:

So true!! jazakAllah khair brother for posting..

:w:
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'Abd al-Baari
02-07-2007, 04:56 PM
good story bro
Jazakallah
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