A story told by one of the attendees to the Shaykh about how the birds are organized
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The student : The large, long-lived one is very big, Glorified is Allah. I saw a sign of the signs of Allah from the hotel balcony. I was looking out, and I stayed in this hotel for about three days. At a specific hour, at a specific minute before the sun rises, these birds move. They come out of their nests, from their nests at the top of the tree. And the strange thing is that they come out in a strange, organized manner. One bird comes out first; as soon as this bird comes out, then specific sounds are emitted, and the first group of these birds comes out, then another group follows it, and a third. Three groups come out, then this bird heads off, and the birds walk behind it. When evening comes.
The Shaykh : Nations like you.
The student : Yes, that is right. When the time of sunset comes, these birds come in a way that they fly and circle, they fly and circle, then one bird descends, and the flocks begin to descend behind it.
Another student: I mean, he is scouting.
Another student: Yes?
Another student: Scouting...
Another student: No, he is as if he is leading the movement, as if he is leading the movement of these birds.
The Shaykh : Yes? And peace and Allah's mercy be upon you. There is no room, excuse me, on Saturday, if Allah wills.
The student : A man married a woman from Ein Karim... who was his daughter. A man would come to her... in a dream and tell her about twenty dinars... so she would wake up in the morning and take out the twenty dinars, then forty, then sixty, until she had collected two hundred dinars. And he read it to her and found it tangible, and you sent it. Did they not inform you?
The student : They informed me about it.
Another student: Okay, what do you say about this story?
Another student : ...
Another student: It is a story that makes one...
Another student: First of all, our Shaykh, what color are the birds?
Another student: Black.
Another student: Okay, please, solve it for me.
Another student: Let me finish the story, this story is truly, I mean, I am amazed by it.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : Our Shaykh, when the birds descend, when the birds descend, there is no bird... the bird comes, and if a bird has preceded it to a place, then the other bird comes and finds that this preceding bird has occupied its place, so it knows, so it drives it away, and it moves to a nearby place in a movement that is very strange. Every one of these birds knows its place on the tree, by Allah.
The Shaykh : Nations like you.
The student : Yes, that is right. When the time of sunset comes, these birds come in a way that they fly and circle, they fly and circle, then one bird descends, and the flocks begin to descend behind it.
Another student: I mean, he is scouting.
Another student: Yes?
Another student: Scouting...
Another student: No, he is as if he is leading the movement, as if he is leading the movement of these birds.
The Shaykh : Yes? And peace and Allah's mercy be upon you. There is no room, excuse me, on Saturday, if Allah wills.
The student : A man married a woman from Ein Karim... who was his daughter. A man would come to her... in a dream and tell her about twenty dinars... so she would wake up in the morning and take out the twenty dinars, then forty, then sixty, until she had collected two hundred dinars. And he read it to her and found it tangible, and you sent it. Did they not inform you?
The student : They informed me about it.
Another student: Okay, what do you say about this story?
Another student : ...
Another student: It is a story that makes one...
Another student: First of all, our Shaykh, what color are the birds?
Another student: Black.
Another student: Okay, please, solve it for me.
Another student: Let me finish the story, this story is truly, I mean, I am amazed by it.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : Our Shaykh, when the birds descend, when the birds descend, there is no bird... the bird comes, and if a bird has preceded it to a place, then the other bird comes and finds that this preceding bird has occupied its place, so it knows, so it drives it away, and it moves to a nearby place in a movement that is very strange. Every one of these birds knows its place on the tree, by Allah.
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