{"id":1781,"date":"2021-05-21T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kayifamilytv.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2022-03-05T08:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T08:05:28","slug":"the-story-of-the-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/the-story-of-the-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"THE STORY OF THE OWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Owl never lies. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s considered ominous in folklore.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>An owl flew up to Suleiman(AS) and greeted him. Suleiman(AS) accepted the greeting. Then a conversation occured between them:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Owl, why won&#8217;t you consume what comes out of the earth?&#8221; &#8220;The reason Hadhrat Adem was banished from heaven is because he ate something that came out of the earth.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;But, why won&#8217;t you drink any water?&#8221; &#8220;Because, the ship of Nuh(AS) sank in water.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Why do you leave civilization and live only in ruins?&#8221; &#8220;The ruins are the heritage of Allah, so I live in ruins.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;What do you say when you land on ruins?&#8221; &#8220;I say: Where are those that used to live here?&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Then, what do you say when you fly above the buildings?&#8221; &#8220;I say: Pity, people are sleeping with peace even though there are many hardships waiting for them.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Why do you stay away during the day?&#8221; &#8220;Because of the amount of cruelty humanity causes themselves.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;What do you say when you hoot?&#8221; &#8220;I say: O, oblivious being, prepare yourself for the journey to afterlife! &#8216;Subhane Haliku&#8217;n-Nur&#8217;, I say.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>After this conversation, Suleiman(AS) said: &#8220;Among all the birds, owls give the best advice to humanity and they are the ones most compassionate.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>How strange it is that those who are ignorant see them as ominous.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Reference\/Source: Kemaleddin Demiri&#8217;s &#8216;Hayat\u00fcl Hayevan-Havas ve Esrar\u0131&#8217; book. Kemaledin Demiri&#8217;s reference is Ka\u2019bel-Ahbar(RA). Ka\u2019bel-Ahbar&#8217;s reference is &#8221;Prophets book&#8221; but i have no idea about this book.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Owl never lies. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s considered ominous in folklore. &nbsp; An owl flew up to Suleiman(AS) and greeted him. Suleiman(AS) accepted the greeting. Then a conversation occured between them: &nbsp; &#8220;Owl, why won&#8217;t you consume what comes out of the earth?&#8221; &#8220;The reason Hadhrat Adem was banished from heaven is because he ate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-articles","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}