One saintly gaze from the Wali
Cures one thousand diseases within me

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A rebel was hanged for a series of crimes and his body was left dangling on the gibbet. As the noble spiritual guide and Saint, Junayd al-Baghdadi, passed by the scene his eye alighted on the man who had been executed. His glance was filled with compassion. That night in the city all the lovers and devotees who were close to the Divine Truth dreamed that the hanged man had entered Paradise. When the dreamers asked him how he had reached that station, he replied: "I had been strung up on the gibbet when the noble Junayd al-Baghdadi passed by. His look was so merciful and I heard these words addressed to me by the All-Glorious and Exalted One:

'It does not befit My Majesty to punish one upon whom My friend has gazed with compassion. I pardon you and grant you My Paradise!'

That is how I gained admission here."

Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi, Adornment of Hearts

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