Facebook Pixel

Sultan Murad | The Great Sultan Of Ottoman Empire

by | Nov 25, 2016

Join Us Today

AlQuranClasses offers 1-on-1 classes at the comfort of your home under highly qualified Ustad and Ustadah. Our vision is to spread the light of the Quran among Muslims. Hurry up! Book your Free Trial of Quran Recitation with Tajweed Rules, Hifz Quran with Tarteel, and Quranic Duas.
AlQuranClasses offers a Quran Recitation course, Hifz Quran, and Quranic Duas. Book a Free Trial.
Start Free Trial

Sultan Murad IV was one of the great sultans of the Ottoman Empire from 1623-1640. He often used to go anonymously between the kingdom’s people and observe their state. One evening, he felt uneasy and thought he should go out. He called for his head of security and continued to march in the streets.

They came to a busy vicinity and found a man lying on the ground. The Sultan prodded him, but he was dead, and the people were doing their business. Nobody seemed to care about the dead man lying on the ground.

A Dead Man:

The Sultan Murad called upon the people. No one was able to recognize him and asked the disguised Sultan about what he wanted.

He said, “Why is this man lying dead on the ground, and why does no one seem to care? Where is his family?”.

They replied, “He is so and so, the drunkard and fornicator!”

The Sultan was wise enough to say, “Is he not from the Ummah of Muhammad SAW? Now help me carry him to his house”.

The people somehow agreed and took the dead man with the Sultan Murad to his house. The moment they reached his home, all of them left. Only the Sultan and his assistant remained.

Sultan Murad knocked on the door. The wife of the dead man came out. When the man’s wife saw his dead body, she began weeping. In her grief, she said to his dead body,

“Allah have mercy on you! O friend of Allah! I bear witness that you are the pious ones.”

The Truth of Dead Man: Sultan Murad

The Sultan Murad was amazed at the response of the widow. In his curiosity, he couldn’t help himself but the question, “How is he from the religious ones when the people say such and such things about him, so much so that no one even cared he was dead?”

She replied, “I was expecting that. My husband would go to the tavern every night and buy as much wine as possible. He would then bring it home and pour it all down the drain. He says, “I saved the Muslims from sin a little today.” He also goes to a prostitute, gives her money, and tells her to close her door in the morning. After that, He would return home for the second time and say, “Today I saved a young woman and the youth of the believers from the great sin of fornication.”

The people would see him buy wine, go to the prostitutes, and talk about him. One day I said to him, “When you die, there will be no one to bathe you, there will be no one to pray over you, and there will be no one to bury you!”

He smiled and replied, “Don’t fear, the Sultan of the believers, along with the pious ones, shall pray over my body.”

The Namaz-e-Janazah

Her words shook Sultan Murad. He began crying. He said,

“By Allah! He told the truth, for I am Sultan Murad. Tomorrow we shall bathe, pray over, and bury him.”

And it so happened that the Muslim Sultan, the scholars, the religious people, and the masses prayed over him.

Because We judge people by what we see and hear from others, only if we were to see what was in their hearts, a secret between them and their Lord.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱجْتَنِبُوا۟ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ ٱلظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ ۖ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا۟ وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا ۚ أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ ۚ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّابٌ رَّحِيمٌ

O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is a sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allāh; indeed, Allāh is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

(AlQuran 49:12)

Interested? Let’s Get Started

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive notifications of our latest blogs

Share This