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heart is alive, then you will consider the hoards of treasures quite worthless, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ.
A summary of the parable is as follows, extracted from page 74 of the first volume of the 412-page book ‘Uyoon-ul-Hikayaat, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami: Sayyiduna Yazeed Bin Maysarah رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: In some ancient Ummah, there was a rich and miserly man who would not spend anything in the path of Allah but rather he would continue multiplying and accumulating his wealth. Days and nights of that unwise and greedy person were passing in luxury, merriment and extreme heedlessness with his family. Once, somebody knocked at his door. One of his slaves opened the door and saw a beggar standing outside. The slave asked the reason for his coming. The beggar replied, ‘Go and send your master to me, I have to talk to him.’ The slave lied, ‘He has gone out to help a beggar like you.’
The beggar went away. After a short while, there was another knock at the door. The slave opened the door and found the same beggar again. This time the beggar said, ‘Go and tell your master that I am the angel of death.’ Intoxicated by wealth and heedless of divine remembrance, the rich person when informed about it, began to tremble in fear and said to his slaves in terror, ‘Go and treat him in a very polite and humble way.’ The slaves came out and requested him beseechingly, ‘Please spare our master and seize the soul of anyone else’. The angel said, ‘It’s not possible at all.’ Then he said to the rich man, ‘Make your will if
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