This claim of vain glory reminded me of the story that beloved Mr. Bakhtavar told us regarding the misconceptions of the Covenant Breakers about their station: In the early period of Islamic Era, when the grandson of Muhammad and the second Imam of Shi’at, Imam Hassan was reigning the Shi’at Community, he lived a simple life and did not have many worldly possessions. The believers presented a cow to the Imam as a gift. The cow of Imam Hassan developed the habit of roaming in the neighborhood yards and gorging on what it could find. The Moslems tolerated the cow's transgressions because of their love and respect for their Imam.
Hard times fell on the Shei'at community, and Imam Hassan decided to sell his cow. The next day the cow, ignorant of changes in its fate, set off in its usual round, but anywhere it went, was faced with hostile owners, who mercilessly shooed it off. The cow did not comprehend that the bestowal of love and privileges that it had received was because of its connection to Imam Hassan. When that relationship ceased to exist, so did the status of that cow. Mr. Bakhtovar’s humorous metaphor was an analogy of the station of the believers who broke the Covenant.
(Footprints in the Sands of Time, Memoire of a Maidservant, Shahla Behroozi Gillbanks, 2019)
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