2 Kings 5

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because Allah had given victory to Syria through him. He was also a mighty man of valour, but he was a leper. ²The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little girl; and she waited on Naaman's wife. ³She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then would he heal him of his leprosy. ⁴Naaman went in and told his master, saying, Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel. ⁵The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. ⁶He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy. ⁷When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? Now just look at how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me! ⁸When Al-Yasa the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? Let the man come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. ⁹So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Al-Yasa. ¹⁰Al-Yasa sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean. ¹¹But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, I thought that he would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Allah his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy. ¹²Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. ¹³His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much more then, when he simply says to you, Wash and be clean? ¹⁴So Naaman went down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. ¹⁵He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant. ¹⁶But Al-Yasa said, As Allah lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing. Naaman urged him to take it; but he refused. ¹⁷Naaman said, If not, then please let there be given to me, your servant, two mule-loads of earth; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but only to Allah. ¹⁸Yet in this one thing may Allah pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow there also--when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may Allah pardon your servant in this thing. ¹⁹Al-Yasa said to him, Go in peace. So Naaman departed from him a short distance. ²⁰But Gehazi the servant of Al-Yasa the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Allah lives, I will run after him, and take something from him. ²¹So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²²Gehazi said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the company of the prophets; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing. ²³Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him. ²⁴When Gehazi came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵But he went in, and stood before his master. Al-Yasa said to him, Where did you come from, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went nowhere. ²⁶He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants? ²⁷The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. Gehazi went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.