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SPEAKING FROM THE CRADLE

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “None but three persons spoke in the cradle.” Only three persons had spoken miraculously during infancy. One was Nabi Isaa (alayhis salaam). The second was an infant of a prostitute who had falsely accused the Saint, Juraij. The third was an infant of a woman, also of Bani Israaeel.
When Hadhrat Maryam (alayhas salaam) first appeared to her people cradling her newborn baby, Nabi Isaa (alayhis salaam), the people were shocked. When they began interrogating her, she pointed to the baby who then miraculously spoke and said that he was the Nabi of Allah.
Hadhrat Juraij (rahmatullah alayh) was a Saint among Bani Israaeel. He lived in the wilderness on the outskirts of the town having dedicated his life to the worship of Allah Ta’ala. Once while engaged in Salaat in his hut, his mother appeared and called him. Juraij was not an Aalim. When he heard his mother’s call, he said to himself: “Should I answer her or continue with the Salaat?”  Annoyed at the delay, his mother in anger cursed: “May you see the face of a prostitute.” Soon thereafter, a prostitute had an illicit affair with a shepherd. A child was born. When the people interrogated her, she said that Juraij was the father of the infant boy. The enraged community descended on Juraij, demolished his hut and assaulted him. Juraij made wudu, performed Salaat, then turned to the infant boy and said: “Who is your father, O boy?” The infant spoke and pointed out the shepherd who was present.
The people were full of remorse and vowed to rebuild Juraij’s hut with gold, but he declined. He told them to rebuild it with mud
as it had been. Once while a woman from Bani Israaeel was breast-feeding her baby, a nobleman gaudily adorned with the best of garments passed by on horseback. The woman supplicated: “O Allah! Make by son like this man.” The infant immediately disengaged from his mother’s breast and supplicated: “O Allah! Don’t make me like him.” Then he continued drinking. Soon thereafter a slave-girl
passed by with people taunting and abusing her. The mother making dua, said: “O Allah! Don’t make my son like her.” Again the baby stopped drinking and said: “O Allah! Make me like her.” In astonishment, the mother said to her baby: “Why do you say so?” The baby responded: “The horseman is among the oppressors. The slave girl has been accused of theft and fornication when in reality she is innocent.”