One of the leading scholars said that a slave woman would come to him to ask him questions about Shari’ah (Islamic law). Some years later he saw a man selling her in the market saying she was worthless. He enquired and the man said that his family were Zoroastrians; they bought her because of her beauty. They would worship the fire and light. Some days ago a Muslim went to their house and recited the same words. Hearing these words she started to cry. From then she refused to eat their (Zoroastrian’s) food and she began to pray (like a Muslim). They tried to prevent her but they couldn’t so she was worthless.

The scholar asked the girl if she was the same girl he remembered from years ago, she replied in the affirmative. The scholar then asked her what verses that man recited, she said, “Therefore flee unto Allah, Lo I am a plea warner to you from Him”. Hearing these words she became restless and said that is the condition she was now in. The scholar then offered to complete the rest of the verse, and said, “Lo Allah! He is the one who gives livelihood, the Lord of the unbreakable might”. Hearing this she said, ‘The matter, which is guaranteed by Allah livelihood) must be left unworried for’. (Basically she put her trust in Allah knowing that Allah would provide for her if she did the right things).

Hearing this trust in Allah, the scholar was amazed. The scholar asked what her price was and wanted to buy her. The man trying to inflate the price said his cousin wanted to buy her. The scholar couldn’t match the price, so the man sold her to his cousin. Now the cousin, also a Zoroastrian was determined to convert her back to his faith. He set about trying to find a way to reprimand her. He decided to give her a purse of money to keep and protect for him for some time, a bag full of Dinars. She took the money and kept it with her in a safe place. Later the man, when she was praying went to her safe place and took the bag. His intention was that after prayer he would ask her where the bag was and she would not be able to find it, so he would criticise her faith and tell her that she has to come back to Zoroastrianism. After the prayer he asked her to fetch the bag. She went and she retrieved the bag. The man was in shock, how could she have given him the bag which he took while she was praying? He concluded that she had help from a divine authority. Upon this, he decided to accept Islam. Upon this, his family, relatives and friends also chose to accept Islam. The slave girl then lived with them, not as a slave girl, as she was set free, and she was invited to live with them as a member of their family.