The Lost Is Found
Salah Ad-Din (Saladin) was the Muslim leader during the Crusades when the Christians from Europe attacked the Muslims.
One day he was sitting in his tent when a Christian woman came to meet him. The guards prevented her from seeing Salah Ad-Din. She sat near his tent and burst out crying. He heard her crying, so he ordered the woman to be brought in.
She entered the tent and said, “My husband is captured in the war and my son is kidnapped.”
Salah Ad-Din’s heart was touched by this woman’s condition. He ordered his soldiers to release her husband and search for the son.
The soldiers carried out the order and found the son. The mother was so overwhelmed with happiness that she prayed for Allah’s blessings on Salah Ad-Din.
Salah Ad-Din told her that these are the morals of Islam, for Islam teaches that people should be helpful and merciful to one another.
The woman said, “What a great religion it is that preaches mercy and help for the weak!”
Therefore, she embraced Islam, and so did her husband.