THE VOICE WITHIN

THE VOICE WITHIN

Once there lived a farmer who tilled a vast tract of land along the Atlantic coast. He needed hired hands but most people were reluctant to work on coastal farms. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received a steady stream of refusals.

Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached the farmer. “Are you a good farm hand?” the farmer asked him.

“Well, I can sleep when the wind blows,” answered the little man.

Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help, hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man’s work.

Then one night the wind howled loudly in from offshore. Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next door to the hired hand’s sleeping quarters. He shook the little man and yelled, “Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!”

The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, “No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows.”

Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot. But that would have hardly helped matters. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm.

To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins. The cows were in the barn, the chickens in the coop, the doors barred, the shutters tightly secured.

Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his hired hand had meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew.

When a man is prepared, spiritually, mentally and physically, he has nothing to fear. Can you sleep when the winds of fate choose to blow through your life? The hired hand was able to sleep because he had secured the farm against the storm.

We secure ourselves against the storms of life by grounding ourselves in the Word of Allah. We don’t need to understand, we just need to hold on to His commands in order to have peace in the middle of storms.

— the harbinger

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