The blessings of the saints in this world As the saints spend all their lives in serving Almighty Allah and spend each and every moment o...
The blessings of the saints in this world
As the saints spend all their lives in serving AlmightyAllah and spend each and every moment of their livesin remembrance of the Lord Almighty. RememberingAlmighty Allah and meditating upon His wondersbecomes their favorite pastime. Almighty Allah valuesthem for this, grants them the reward of their worshipand striving in the path of closeness to Allah and rainsHis blessings on them.
People come to them, gain blessings from them andknock at their doors only with the intention of bettering
their worldly lives and improving their hereafter. Herean anecdote from the most reliable books of Hadith willbe related:
Translation: It is narrated on the authority of HadhratAbu Sa’eed Khudri (May Allah be well pleased with him)that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:A person before you committed 99 murders. Then heinquired about the greatest scholar of his times and hewas directed to a recluse. He went to him and told himthat I am the murderer of 99 human beings. Is thereany way of repentance (Tauba) for me? He said: Thereis no repentance for you! He murdered this recluse aswell and consequently became the murderer of 100human beings. Again, he asked about the greatestscholar of the age and was told about a certain scholar.
He went to that scholar and asked: I am the murdererof 100 human beings. Is there any chance ofrepentance for me? The scholar said: Why not! Whatcan come between you and your repentance? You goto such and such a place. There some pious slaves ofAllah are busy in His worship. You also busy yourself inworship of Allah along with them and don’t return toyour place as evil people live here. That person startedfor that place. He was still on the way when deathovertook him. In his last moments, when he couldn’twalk, he dragged himself on his chest towards the cityof those pious slaves of Allah. At last he passed away.
The angels of mercy and the angels in charge of punishment started arguing with each other as to who
among them should take his soul. The angels of mercysaid: This person had repented with a sincere heartand was coming to seek Allah’s pleasure. The angels incharge of punishment said: This person neverperformed any good deed. An angel in the guise of ahuman being came to them. These angels asked him tojudge between them. That angel said: Measure thedistance from the cities. Count him among thedenizens of whichever city he is closest to (if he wasclosest to the city of those pious people, he will takenby the angels of mercy and if he was closest to the cityof the evildoers, he will be taken by the angels incharge of punishment). The distance was measuredand this person was closest to the city of the pious.
Thus, his soul was taken by the angels of mercy.It is mentioned in Sahih Bukhari that Almighty Allahordered the city of the pious to come closer and thecity of evildoers to go farther.(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No. 3470; Sahih Muslim, HadithNo. 7184; Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 2720; MusnadImam Ahmed bin Hambal, Hadith No. 11453; MusannafIbn Abi Shaiba, Vol. 8, Pg. No. 109; Sunan Kubra LilBaihaqui, Vol. 8, Pg. No. 17; Mo’jam Kabeer Tabarani,Hadith No. 16229; Shua’bul Iman, Hadith No. 6800;Musnad Abu Ya’ala, Hadith No. 997; Sahih Ibn Hibbaan,Hadith No. 613; Jame’ Ul Ahadeeth, Hadith No. 7852;
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