[Pooya/Ali Commentary 51:23] The truth is as doubtless as the people's guaranteed ability to talk to each other. Asma-yu relates that once he was returning from the masjid at Basra, where he met a Bedouin Arab highway man, with a sword and a bow. The Arab asked Asma-yu his identity and where he was coming from. Asmayu replied: "I have come from the place where the word of Allah is recited." The Arab asked: "What is such word of Allah that men can recite it?" Asma-yu replied: "Yes, it is so." The Arab said: "Recite it." Asma-yu began to recite surah adh Dhariyat and when he reached verse 22 and said: "In the heavens is your sustenance", the Arab jumped down from his camel and slew the animal saying: "Help me to distribute this to the needy." He then broke his sword into pieces, buried his bow and arrows and ran away into the desert reciting this verse. Asma-yu relates that he began to condemn himself: "Alas! a single recitation of this verse reformed the Bedouin Arab, but until now it has not affected me." After a long time Asma-yu met the Bedouin for the second time, during the hajj, in Makka. The Bedouin had been reduced to a skeleton by constant prayers and fasting. He led Asma-yu to the place of Ibrahim and requested him to recite the same surah once more. When Asma-yu recited verse 22 he said: "Certainly I had the promised sustenance." When Asma-yu began to recite the next verse "The Lord of the heavens and the earth" the Bedouin shouted aloud three times: "Who would defy such a Lord and enrage Him?" He died then and there. Abu Khudri relates that the Holy Prophet said: "If any of you were to run away from your destined sustenance, it would follow you and reach you as death follows and overtakes its victim." Imam Ali ibn abi Talib said: "There is a sustenance that you seek which may or may not be made available; but there is another which seeks you and always reaches you."