LESSONS FROM A SPIDER

During World War II, a US marine was separated from his unit on a Pacific island. The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire he had lost touch with his comrades.

Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realized that once the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed.

As he waited, he prayed, “Lord, if it be your will, please protect me. Whatever your will though, I love you and trust you. Amen.”

After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close. He thought, “Well, I guess the Lord isn’t going to help me out of this one.” Then he saw a spider begin to build a web over the front of his cave.As he watched, listening to the enemy searching for him all the while, the spider layered strand after strand of web across the opening of the cave.”Hah, he thought. “What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humor.”

As the enemy drew closer he watched from the darkness of his hideout and could see them searching one cave after another. As they came to his, he got ready to make his last stand. To his amazement, however, after glancing in the direction of his cave, they moved on. Suddenly, he realized that with the spider web over the entrance, his cave looked as if no one had entered for quite a while.

“Lord, forgive me,” prayed the young man. “I had forgotten that in you a spider’s web is stronger than a brick wall.”

-author unknown-

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Please read this very important comment from blog reader Zackzara...Thank you. My apologies for my ignorance.

Zackzara says:

FYI, this is a story of The Prophet Muhammad s.a.w during the beginning of Hijrah, where His Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and Abu Bakar A.S entered the cave to hide from the enemies in which Allah The Almighty protected them and directed the spider to spun its web at the entrance of the cave, pigeons nested and laid eggs in front of it, and the branches of the trees blocked it so that the enemies did not search the place.

This is in a nutshell. You may search on this more on the net. ;-)

I just want to set which facts are right and which are not. In your entry here (I assume it is a chain e-mail sent to you), it gives an indication that it was the US marine during WW2 that this story came up. I'm afraid that when it is not being carefully sieved but to just simply published without considering if it is right or wrong, it may left the readers thinking of what a great amazing story it was and no one will even care to read the history (and the religion itself) and care less about what's right or wrong.

I do note that your intention deriving from this story is for the readers to believe and have faith in GOD (in whichever religion one professes) but at some point, I do hope that you will see my intention too that despite all that, we have the obligation to state the right info and not to mislead readers. I sincerely hope you will get my point.

Thank you & have a nice day, MWS.