Islamic Stories, - Hazrat Hassan Al-Basri (ra) Impresses an Unbelieving Neighbour

Hazrat Hasan al-Basri once fell sick. His neighbour, an unbeliever,
came to pay him a visit.
"O Imam," he exclaimed,"I detect a bad smell." The Imam told him it
was caused by illness, but the neighbour insisted: "That is not the
odor of sickness. It is a lavatory smell. For the love of Allah, tell
me what it is!"
He had not noticed that sewage was leaking from his house into that of the Imam.
When the neighbour pressed him, the Imam finally said: "For some
months your drain has been seeping through toour side. I tried to fix
it, but without success."
His neighbour asked why he had not told himbefore, but the venerable
Imam said: "I might have offended you."
The unbeliever was so impressed by this ethicalrefinement that he was
ennobled with True Faith, for he recognized the Imam's morality as a
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