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Messengers of Death
Remember! Anyone who has fallen prey to heedlessness and continues to commit sins has lost his way and has wandered into the darkness of evil. If Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and His Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم are displeased, as a result, he will face the torments of the grave and the punishments of the afterlife. Then remorse and guilt will be useless. You still have a chance, sincerely repent and tread on a life of Sunnah.
Highlighting the significance of youth, the beloved son of A’la Hadrat, Mufti-e-A’zam Hind Maulana Mustafa Raza Khan عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن has composed a couplet in his collection of poems known as ‘Saman-e-Bakhshish’:
رِیاضت کے یہی دن ہیں بُڑھاپے میں کہاں ہمّت
جو کچھ کرنا ہو اب کرلو ابھی نُوریؔ جواں تم ہو
Old-age as a messenger of death
Dear Islamic brothers! As an illness is a messenger of death, old-age also plays the role of a messenger before death. Being heedless of death at any time is like being in the state of sleep and surrounded by enemies but being heedless of death after growing old is like an enemy who attacks him tirelessly and he does nothing in return. Old-age is that last stage which is directly followed by death and this is the age which awakens one from heedlessness and persuades him to do good deeds. But if anybody shows heedlessness in this age as well, then what will happen to that person in the Hereafter. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says in the Glorious Quran:
وَ هُمْ یَصْطَرِخُوْنَ فِیْهَاۚ-رَبَّنَاۤ اَخْرِجْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَالِحًا غَیْرَ الَّذِیْ كُنَّا نَعْمَلُؕ-اَوَ لَمْ نُعَمِّرْكُمْ مَّا یَتَذَكَّرُ فِیْهِ مَنْ تَذَكَّرَ وَ جَآءَكُمُ النَّذِیْرُؕ-فَذُوْقُوْا فَمَا لِلظّٰلِمِیْنَ مِنْ نَّصِیْرٍ۠(۳۷)
BOOK TOPIC
- Excellence of reciting Salat-‘Alan-Nabi صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم
- Two Madani pearls
- Intentions of listening to the Bayan
- Intentions of delivering the Bayan
- Three messengers of death
- Illness is also a messenger of death
- Death overcame!
- ‘Illness’ as a messenger of death
- Name inscribed on the door of Hell
- Old-age as a messenger of death
- Seclusion of a saint
- Value of worldly life compared to the afterlife
- Drowned into the storm
- Joy of a wedding turned into mourning
- Aspirations of marriage were dashed
- Falling prey to a sudden death
- Where are those beautiful faces now?
- Agonies of death
- More effective way of remembering death
- Summary of the Bayan
- Introduction to Majlis Tajheez-o-Takfeen (undertaking and burial)
- Sada-e-Madinah — one of the 12 Madani activities
- A non-Muslim embraces Islam
- Persuasion of I’tikaf
- Persuasion of Madani donations
- Fast of the 15th Sha’ban
- Sunnah and manners of travelling
