The Prophet (ﷺ) then looked at Zaid. “You asked her if I would reject her,” he said. “Tell me, Zaid. If a drowning man calls out to you in a broken language, do you teach him phonetics? Or do you throw him the rope?”
And from that day on, the grand mosque did not just echo with the sounds of formal prayers. It echoed with the raw, beautiful, broken melody of a lover’s Naat . meera waliyo ke imam naat
Amma Jaan could not read. The elegant Arabic script of the Qur’an was a mystery to her eyes, and she had never performed the intricate rituals of the scholars. Her prayer mat was a torn piece of sackcloth, and her rosary was a string of dried plum pits. The mullahs of the grand Badshahi Mosque looked down at her with disdain. The Prophet (ﷺ) then looked at Zaid
Zaid woke up screaming, tears soaking his pillow. If a drowning man calls out to you
It was the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).