Heart touching message
(Dr Zahoor Ahmed Danish, Karachi)
I read heart touching story .I
had not forgot it in my life .today I thought share with you.
Once Sayyeduna Malik bin Denaar رضی اللہ تعالیِ عنہ passed by a graveyard. He
saw that some people were burying someone. Although it's a daily practice of
people, it made Sayyiduna Malik bin Denaar رضی اللہ تعالیِ عنہ -the friend of
Allah- who absorbed the fear of Allah from each and every pore of his body
remember his death. He started thinking of the visuals of his death and said,
“Oh, I will soon die as well. Gusaal (undertaker) will soon be giving Ghusl to
me. People will soon make me wear the shroud. My relatives and the people who
value my whims will soon shoulder me to the graveyard and place me in a dark and
narrow grave.He became unconscious and lost his senses after thinking of it, and
fell down, and started wobbling. And when he came to his senses a little, he
stood up and started tearing his clothes and rubbing sand into his face. In
addition, he started roaming around the places and streets and screaming in his
insanity. And he was giving the message of mortality to the people by screaming
out,“O, dwellers of the world! O, heedless people! Beware of death that will
come one day, certainly. Do retreat yourself from the delusions and deceptions
of the world, lest the worldly lusts should feed you with false hopes. Do not
get yourself indulged into the lusts and worldly desires or else you'll only
regret. O, people! Fear death. Indeed, it will definitely come. And he kept
saying while weeping, “If only my mother hadn’t given birth to me. Now I'll have
to bear the agonies of death and go to the dark grave as well.”
Dear Reader !
The life and surety of our elders is a tendency for us. Their values are the
best lessons for us.