BISHR AL KHAFI(K.S)

Bishr Al Khafi was one of the well known sufi masters lived in 8th century. In early years of his life, he used to drink alcohol in the pubs with his friends all the time, not to work, get drunk and not able to find the way home. The pub owner was earning a good money out of him and his friends ,so he was very happy with this situation. However, his mother was not happy to see his son being in this condition, as she was seeing him coming home drunk every night. She was praying to Allah so that her son could get out of this habit and be a true believer(mumeen) as his father had wished him to be from Allah before he had passed away.

One night it was raining heavily on the streets, he saw a piece of paper on the floor and some verse from Qur’an was written on it. If I am not mistaking it was the below verse called Ayat Al Kursi:

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