A Jewish woman who had heard him once wanted to prove him...

A Jewish woman who had heard him once wanted to prove him wrong and thus make him unpopular among his people. She thought up a plot against him. She prepared some sweets mixed with poison and sent them to him as a present. When he received them, he went out of the city with them. On the way, he met two men who were returning home from a long journey. They appeared tired and hungry, so he thought of doing them a good turn. He offered them the sweets.

Of course, he was not aware that they were secretly mixed with poison. No sooner had the two travellers taken the sweets, they collapsed and died. When the news of their death reached Medina, the city where the Prophet resided, the man was arrested. He was brought in front of the Prophet and he related what had actually happened. The Jewish woman who had mixed poison with the sweets, was also brought to the court of the Prophet. She was stunned to see the two dead bodies of the travellers there.

They in fact turned out to be her own two sons who had gone away on a journey. She admitted her evil intention before the Prophet and all the people present. Alas, the poison she had mixed in the sweets to kill the companion of the Prophet had instead killed her own two sons. What a splendid example of a tragic reaction to a bad action. It shows how one reaps what he sows. "Do as you would be done by" are words of wisdom from the learned and wise men of the past.

They teach us to do good to others in the same way as we like others to do good to us. Co-operation - The Key To Success Co-operation is to work together for a common good. It is to undertake a job in which everyone plays his part sincerely to finish it. People in co-operation pool their resources for their common benefit. We come to hear or see co-operative societies established in many countries. Their benefit has been dignity of labour and self- dependence.

The co-operative movement has been the cause of rapid economic progress in many countries. There is a story of an old man who was on his death-bed. He called his sons and asked them to break a bundle of sticks which was bound together. Although the sons were strong and tried hard to break it, they failed. The old man then advised them to untie the bundle and to break the sticks seperately. Everyone of them could do so very easily.

The bundle of sticks is like co-operation and working together in unity which cannot be destroyed. Thus co-operation is strength.