One incident of Sayed Murtada has been recorded in the history. Sayed Murtada used to reside in the old neighborhood of Baghdad those days. The city was expanding by leaps and bounds. On the other side of the river the New Baghdad was fast developing. There was a bridge over the river Dajla that used to be opened in the mornings and closed for the public in the evenings.
Sayed Murtada used to run his classes in the mosque of the neighborhood of Karb in old Baghdad. One of his disciples was a resident of New Baghdad. He used to come to the school daily, but he was arriving late when generally the day’s lesson would have reached its conclusion or was more than half way through. The student was very worried about this and approached Sayed Murtada to seek his guidance and help. He explained to the Sayed that he had to tarry at the other side of the river for the bridge to open for the travelers. This invariably made him late for the classes every day. He requested Sayed Murtada to find a solution for his problem. Sayed Murtada wrote something on a piece of paper and told his disciple that he was writing a supplication. He folded the paper and asked the student to keep with him whenever he attempted to come across the river. But he warned the boy not to open the folds of the paper and try to see the contents. The student happily went home.
The next morning he reached the river bank, the bridge wasn’t opened yet for people to cross the river. He put his feet in the waters of the river, even his footwear didn’t get wet and he comfortably walked across to the other bank comfortably as if he was walking on the dry land. Now it became his daily routine to walk across the river to attend his school. One day it came into his inquisitive mind to find out what was written by his mentor on that piece of paper. He thought that if he learned about the supplication written on the paper, he might be able to help others as well. He opened the paper and found that only these words were written on it: “Bismillah hir Rehman ir Rahim”“In the name of Allah the Beneficient the Merciful”
He thought for a while that only Bismillah is scribbled on the paper that it caused the miraculous results. The next morning he folded the paper back and as soon as he put his foot in the water he felt that he was about to drown. Worrying, he withdrew his foot from the water and when he reached the school he sat quietly in the class without uttering a word to Sayed Murtada.
But Sayed Murtada told him, “You have gone against my instruction. The supplication will not benefit you any more! Imagine what a great personage was Sayed Murtada that such miraculous manifestations happened because of him!
BIOGRAPHY OF JANAB SYED MURTAZA ALEM-UL-HODA