Every home is a lesson for reflection

Sayyidunā Abū al-Sāˈib al-ꜤAbdī رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه states:

One day, Sayyidunā Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī  رَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه visited us. I asked, “O Abū al-Bishr! Where have you come from?”

He replied, “I left my home and came to you after wandering through various places. When I passed by such-and-such a house, that house called out to me [through its state] and said, ‘O Ṣāliḥ! Take heed from me! Such-and-such people used to live in me, and now they have passed away.’ Then, when I reached another house, that house also called out to me [through its state] and said, ‘O Ṣāliḥ! Take heed from me! Such-and-such people used to live in me, and now all of them are buried in the earth.’”

In this manner, Sayyidunā Ṣāliḥ al-Murrīرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَـلَيْه  continued to enumerate one house after another until he reached our house.^[1]

Dear Islamic brothers! Reflect upon the various ways in which our pious predecessors, the virtuous servants of Allah Almighty, took admonition. Unfortunately, we are far from taking admonition from desolate homes, burning fire in the stove, sunshine, cold, heat, etc. Funerals pass before our eyes, but we do not take admonition. We ourselves lower the deceased into the grave with our own hands, yet we do not take admonition. We hear that such-and-such a person was healthy and well, suddenly had a heart attack and met his death or such-and-such a young man passed away in a road accident. We regularly hear stories like this, yet we neither remember our own death, nor do we take admonition. Would that we become those who take admonition and remember the grave and the afterlife.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد