KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN 
Once upon a time there was a man praying his namaz with jama’at (congregational prayers). In the course of namaz, he heard the imam making strange noise. It seemed as if the imam was trying to get rid of something of drive something or someone out.
When the namaz was over, this man went up to the maulana and asked him as to what was going on in the course of his namaz.
Imam: “Well, as I was saying my prayers, I saw a dog wandering near the Ka’bah. So I was trying to drive him out from that holy place.”
The man: “But how could you see thing thousands of miles away from Macca and also have the power to drive it away from there?”
Imam: “Oh well, you see because I am a very pious man, God has granted me this power to see such and act upon from a very great distance.”
The poor man was so much impressed by this explanation that he hugged and kissed the imam.
The man went home and narrated the miracle he witnessed that day.
The wife listened to her husband calmly and then commented, “The imam is foolish but you are even more foolish.”
Man: Astaghfirullah, but how can you say such a thing about such a pious person? I saw all this with my own eyes.
The wife said to him to calm down and when the time comes she will prove it to him what she meant.
After a few days time when the life was back to normal, the wife says to her husband, “darling, I want to give you some good news. How about inviting your friend, the Imam with his three closest companions for lunch this weekend?
Naturally, the poor man was over the moon. He went to the Imam and the three closest companions and asked them if they could come for lunch on Sunday.
The Imam with his companions arrive and the man welcomes them. They take their place on the dining table. The wife calls her husband and gives him a plate full of rice with chicken on top and asks him to give it to one of the companions. In the same way plates full of rice with chicken on top came for the other two companions and one for himself.
Finally, there came a plate full of rice and the wife said, “This is for the Imam.”
The husband was very upset and started arguing with her asking about the chicken. The wife somehow coaxed him and the man with shaky hands brought the plate full of rice and placed it in front of the Imam and said, ‘bismilla’.
The Imam got extremely upset and stood up ready to leave. He said that he never thought of being so badly humiliated. Everyone got a chicken, except him! The companions also stood up ready to leave with the Imam.
The husband went in the kitchen and shouted at his wife about the way she treated his Imam. He said that the Imam was very upset and he was in no mood to eat anything and simply leave straight away.
Wife: See darling! didn’t I tell you that this Imam was very crafty and that you played into his hands.
Man: Don’t you start again.
Wife: Is it not amazing that this Imam could see a dog wandering in Macca and could also drive him away (from London) and yet he could not see the chicken buried under the rice!!!
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