“By Allah, I then fell down unconscious.”
August 22, 2011 in Character of a Muslim, General Islam, Islamic History
“By Allah, I then fell down unconscious.” Saleh al-Mizee said: “In the middle of the day, I entered the graveyard. I looked at the graves and they were like a group of silent people. I said, ‘How perfect Allah is! Who will bring you back to life and resurrect you after a long period of decomposition?’ A caller called out to me from behind those holes (in the ground), saying: ‘O Saleh: "And among His Signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His Command, then afterwards when He will call you by single call, behold, you will come out from the earth (i.e from your graves for reckoning and recompense)." (Quran: Surah Rum 30:25) Saleh said : “By Allah, I then fell down unconscious.” [Ibn Kathirs 'al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah']
Everything is within reach and we’re constantly looking for the latest, quickest, or smallest! Each of us (except whom Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) had mercy upon) is literally ‘killing’ themselves running after acquiring more and more of today’s world and what’s sad about this is that we, as Muslims, should know better.
