The man ran to a tree, climbed on to it and sat on a branch. He looked
down and saw that the lion was still there waiting for him.
The man then looked to his side where the branch he was sitting on was
attached to the tree and saw that two rats were circling around
andeating the branch. One rat was black and the other one was white.
Thebranch would fall on the ground very soon.
The man then looked below again with fear and discovered that a
bigblack snake had come and settled directly underhim. The snake
opened its mouth right under theman so that he will fall into it.
The man then looked up to see if there was anything that he could hold
on to. He saw another branch with a honeycomb. Drops of honey were
falling from it.
The man wanted to taste one of the drops. So, he put his tongue out
and tasted one of the fallen drops of honey. The honey was amazing in
taste. So, he wanted to taste another drop. As he did, he got lost
into the sweetness of the honey.
Meanwhile, he forgot about the two rats eatinghis branch away, the
lion on the ground and the snake that is sitting right under him.
After a while, he woke upfrom his sleep.
To get the meaning behind this dream, the man went to a pious scholar
of Islam. The Islamic scholar who interpret the dream said, the lion
you saw is your death. It always chases you and goes wherever you go.
The two rats, one black and one white, are the night and the day.
Black one is the night and the white one is the day. They circle
around, coming one after another, to eat your time as they take you
closer todeath.
The big black snake with a dark mouth is your grave. It's there, just
waiting for you to fall into it.
The honeycomb is this world and the sweet honey is the luxuries of
this world. We like to taste a drop of the luxuries of this world but
it's very sweet. Then we taste another drop and yet another.
Meanwhile, we get lost into it and we forget about our time, we forget
about our death and we forget about our graves.
This Life is Material, and the Hereafter is Far Betterand everlasting:
According to Islam, this life is very short and full of material
things that can get in the way of our submission to Almighty Allah
(SWT). It's not wrong to have these material possessions as long as we
remember our obligations to Almighty Allah (SWT) and thank Him for
those things. We shouldn't get preoccupied with this temporary worldly
life and forget Hereafter.
It is narrated that Holy Prophet Muhammad (saww)has said: "Most
intellectual of man is he remembers the death most."
It is also narrated that Holy Prophet Muhammad (saww) has said: "One
who gains the love and grace of Allah (SWT), always end (Ajal) will be
before his eyes and he will be always worried about his death. But the
one who take Satan (Shaitan) as a friend and becomes Bad-Bakht.
Shaitan overpowers him and indulge (Giraftaar) him in long long
desires and them he never remember death."
The famous poet Longfellow calls human footprints sublime on the'sands
of time' while writer Margaret Mitchell declares generations will be
'gone with the wind'. The Ancient Greeks believed that the human race
was like a bird, that came from a dark passage and flew away in
another dark tunnel, with a momentary stay ina bright room, which they
believed was our world.
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