The Wife of the Shaykh
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykha Camille Adams Helminski wrote, in her article, “Women & Sufism”, that the wife of the ninth-century Sufi, Shaykh Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad bin ‘Ali al-Hakim at-Tirmidzi ( q.s. ), was a mystic in her own right. She used to dream for her husband as well as for herself. Khidhr ( a.s. ), the mysterious one, would appear to her in her dreams. One night, he told her to tell her husband to guard the purity of his house. Concerned that perhaps Khidhr ( a.s. ) was referring to the lack of cleanliness that sometimes occurred because of their young children, she questioned him in her dream. He responded by pointing to his tongue: she was to tell her husband to be mindful of the purity of his speech.