And that prayer and fasting on his behalf also became unnecessary...

And that prayer and fasting on his behalf also became unnecessary, since prayer and fast on behalf of one who is alive is not acceptable in the Islamic Sharia Haroon and his courtiers were much impressed by this logic answer. Bahlool then took his turn and posed the following question to the jurist: "Supposing one bowl is full of sugar syrup and while another one with vinegar.

If for the purpose of preparing 'Sikanjabin' (a kind of vinegar syrup), we put them in third bowl and we find a small rat in it. How can we determine whether that rat originally was in the bowl of vinegar or in that of the supar syrup?" To this question put forward by Bahlooi, the jurist had no answer to give. Haroon noticing his.

silence, called for the answer from Bahlool himself and Bahlool answered: "We should first remove the dead rat from the syrup, wash it with water and thence tear open its body to see what was there in its tummy. If we find vinegar, we can conclude that the rat had got into the bowl of vinegar.

If however, we find sugar syrup in its tummy, we conclude that it was originally in the bowl of syrup." On hearing this answer to tne question, all those present in the court were awe struck with the remarkable intelligence of Bahlool. Finally the jurist had to part with the agreed sum of a thousand dinars of gold to Bahlool who instead of pocketing them himself, distributed among the poor. This polemic between Bahlool and the jurist denotes the deep knowledge he had in Islamic jurisprudence.

This made htm famous to be held in high esteem despite his insanely ways of living. The following sayings of the Prophet are herewith worth noting: "He whose knowledge is higher is considered more in value than others" "A slip by a learned becomes widely publicized whereas that of an ignorant gets covered up under his ignorance". "The happiness of this world and the next Has in learning and the evil of this world .and the next in ignorance" Previous…