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| Part of letter from Imaam Malik |
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| bhaloo |
| 02/27/02 at 00:48:57 |
| [slm] This is part of a letter in the book, The Four Imams, that Malik wrote to a khalif, its is found in Tartib al-Madarik as well: ....Remind yourself of the throes of death and its gried, and what will happen to you when it comes, and what you know follows after death: being presented before Allah Almighty, and then the Reckoning, and then remaining forever either in the Garden or the Fire. Prepare for it something to make the terrors of those sights and their distress easy for you. If you were to see the people who incur the wrath of Allah Almighty and the myriad punishments they are heading to and the severity of the vegeance of Allah, and if you were to hear their moaning in the Fire and their groaning with their livid faces and the length of their grief and their being turned over on their faces in its bottom levels where they cannot hear or see while calling out for utter and final destruction- and the most terrible thing of all for them is the pain when Allah Almighty turns away from them and their hope is cut off from Him and HIs answer to them after the long drawn out sorrow is 'Slink down in it and do not speak.' If you remind yourself of this, nothing of this world will seem of any importance to you. You will want to be saved from that. You have no security from its terror. Even if you were to offer all that the people of this world have to seek deliverance, that would be little. If you were to see the people who obey Allah and what they are destined to receive by way of honour from Allah, their position of nearness to Allah Almighty, the freshnesss of their faces and the light of their colours, their joy in looking at Him, and having a place with Him and their rank in His sight along with nearness to Him, those things of this world which you seek and which appear immense in your eyes would then seem insignificant. |
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