Saturday, October 13, 2007
interesting story...
Assalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu,I pray that this reaches you in the best of health and Eeman.
At-Tantawi related another story that equally illustrates the unexpectedness of death. A bus full of people was moving when the driver suddenly pressed on the brakes. The passengers asked him what was wrong. He said, "I am stopping for this old man who is waving so that he can get on the bus." They all said in wonder, "We do not see anyone."
He said, "Look at him over there." They repeated that there was no one to be seen. He said confidently, "Now look, he is coming to get in" Now the situation was beyond wonder, and they exclaimed, "By Allah, we don’t see anyone." Then, in an instant, the driver died in his seat.
Thus death came to him in the most bizarre and unexpected of scenarios:
"When their term is reached neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour [or a moment]." Surah Al-A’raf – Ayah 34.
Man is cowardly when he faces danger; his heart begins to thump when the possibility of death arises, and then, without prior warning, he dies at a time when he feels most safe.
"[They are] the ones who said about their killed brethren while they themselves sat [at home]. ‘If only they had listened to us, they would not have been killed.‘ Say: ‘Avert death flow your ownselves, if you speak the truth.’" Surah Al-Imran – Ayah 168.
The strange thing is that we do not think about meeting Allah or about the transient nature of this life.
Wasalaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Ahsin.
-interesting huh guys?haha..daaaa-
by HanHan at 10/13/2007 05:58:00 PM |
