rights upon you is that you listen to my words attentively and fulfil my will.’ I replied: ‘I would fulfil your will with love and honour.’ He then said: ‘Only three days of my life remain, and I shall die in a state of disbelief. When I pass away, place me in a coffin in my clothes during the darkness of the night, take me to such-and-such a place outside the city, and remain there until sunrise. Some people will arrive there bearing a coffin; they will place that coffin beside mine and take my coffin away. Return with the other coffin. Then, open it, and complete the funeral rites and burial of the deceased within it according to the Islamic method.’”

The pious man continued:

Upon hearing these words from my teacher, I was overcome with emotion and asked tearfully: “What is the reason for such an outcome?” My teacher replied: “Son! All of this is recorded in the Preserved Tablet (al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ), and the Majesty of Allah Almighty is such that:

لَا یُسْــٴَـلُ عَمَّا یَفْعَلُ

He is not questioned about what He does.^[1]

He continued:

I listened to my teacher’s words with full attention. After three days, it came to pass exactly as he had predicted. He was suddenly seized with restlessness; his complexion changed, his face turned black and rotated towards the East, and he fell forward on his face and died. I wept profusely seeing such an end of my teacher.

Then, remembering the will, I placed him in a coffin and took him to the designated location which my teacher had mentioned. Thereafter, everything transpired as he had predicted. In the morning, some people arrived who also had a coffin and placed it beside the coffin of