Shaikh ‘Abdullah ‘Afeefi, an Egyptian scholar, mentioned the following amazing incident:

It was a hot summer’s day in the year 1914 when I found myself standing amidst a group of travellers at the railway station of Tanta, waiting to board the train from Alexandria to Cairo. There was the general hustle and bustle at the station as travellers hastily spent the remaining few minutes preparing their luggage and bidding their loved ones farewell.

I was engaged in a rather interesting and …