it states in the holy Quran
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ ﴿57
Meaning every soul shall shall taste death and then will return back to us.
Today’s topic is the most important thing the sad reality is that most of us tend to forget including myself is the following quote “one day you are going to die.”
Specifically i will talk about the dead people and there was a story that I once heard this is in regard to a women who passed away(this is paraphrased by the way).There was a sheikh who witnessed the body of a women which was due for burial, he said from the begging the situation did not look well while giving the ghusal the face and the body smell did not look right bear in mind this was a sheikh who was experienced and gave ghusal to many dead people he said till this I can ignore it.
The sheikh went with the people who took her to the graveyard everything was fine until the time came of putting the body in the grave.They were huge in number the sheikh said that 4 brothers tried to put the body in the grave it was not moving another five people joined it did not move the sheikh said the number was enough to flip a car how can the body not be put in the grave he could not believe it.
He began looking through the fiqh rulings however he did not find anything to do with this situation. Hence he phoned another sheikh.He advised him to read the Quran so he began reading randomly.He saw after he was reciting the people could lift the leg he kept reading and reading.He said three of the sons carried the body whilst he was reciting he said someone tapped him from behind so he stopped reciting the three sons dropped and the body had dropped,He said what happened why did you drop you’re mum for the sons said the body began to become heavy hence it dropped.The sheikh gave advise as he was a a non mahram he cold not touch the body hence he only advised how to put the body.
The sheikh saw one of the sons crying in excess the sheikh said whats wrong the son said “sheikh sheikh may allah save you do not say anything just protect my mother he said that is it at least protect the name of my mum”. As the the sheikh began to come out the grave the son said “ can i see my mums face one last time ” The sheikh replied “ yes just wait for me to leave the grave then you can see as i am not mahram”
The sheikh then left the grave the son saw his moms face and came out again he was crying in excess when he came out so they completed the burial. The son said in the grave “I will tell you” the Sheikh said what is wrong “the sheikh said “tell me whats wrong.The boy said “i cannot tell you.” The sheikh said “you said you would tell me you promised me you have to tell me.”The boy replied saying “the body in the grave is not my mom” the sheikh said what do you mean i did the Ghusal with you and we took the same body to the grave and i have the papers with me to prove it is her” The boy denied and said this is not her when you gave the ghusal her face was white and now i look and her face is like the color of coal.”The boy then left.
A few months later the sheikh was doing a burial as usual and a boy comes up to him with along beard and you could see the traces sajadah. The boy asked do “you remember me” the sheikh said “no i do not remember you”.The boy replied i am the son of the women whose body could not get lifted i am the son” The sheikh remembered and said “you’re appearance looks different.” The son replied saying “yes sheikh i am aware of it i did tawbah and reformed myself.” The sheikh said you ran away that time and did not fulfill you’re promise to me.”
The son replied i am aware and i have come to inform you of it today he said my mom in her whole life she never prayed hence it is the reason why it refused to go in the grave.
I learnt the lesson that from this to always pray salah not only that i question myself that am i really ready to die have i done enough deeds to enter Janna if not why and how can i improve myself and become a better person within my inner-self and i want you to also do the same.
I am well aware that we all make mistakes and that is a part of life however we need to repent and make a reform within our lives.To end this I would like to say this quote that i learnt “Live every day as you’re last.”
i love this content mashallah may allah help you to continue to release content like this