my teacher. As one of them moved forward to take my teacher’s coffin, I held him and asked: “Who are you, and what is this matter?” He replied: “I am a non-believer. In this coffin is one of our religious leaders; I served him for forty years. Three days before his death, he summoned me and made this will, instructing me to bring his coffin here and take another coffin back to bury according to our religious rites. When the three days had passed, my teacher’s face beamed with joy; he recited the shahādah (the Declaration of Faith) and passed away as a Muslim.”

Following this, Qaḍīb al-Bān (the narrator of the incident) says:

I then lifted that coffin and opened it; inside was the body of a saintly man, and his face was showered with divine refulgence. I removed him from the coffin, performed the ritual bath (ghusl) according to the Islamic method, shrouded him, offered the funeral prayer, and buried him.

He then exclaimed:

From that day until now, whenever I step outside, sorrow of the fear of a bad end surrounds me. This is why I remain distant from people and occupied with the concern of safeguarding my faith.^[1]

Satan will Approach in the Guise of Relatives to Snatch Faith

!اللہ! اللہ Dear Islamic brothers! How admonitory and lesson-filled this incident is! Alas! We have entered this world, but to depart from it with our faith intact, we must traverse extremely difficult and treacherous terrains—and even then, it is unknown what our final end will be.

Alas! At the time of death, Satan will employ various stratagems to plunder one’s faith. He may even assume the form of one’s parents to commit this robbery, attempting to validate the ways of the non-believers. Certainly, that