today i realised for the 1st time in my life that a grave is very small .. they showed it in the tv .. i had never seen it being dug…
the human mind is very intricate and the human psychology believes in the vastness of life , it’s circles .. it’s pleasures and it’s joys ..
maybe becaz we are born with an immense sky to view our first logic … especially as a young baby sees a a bird fly like speck in the immensity of the blue roof..
or a star twinkle in the darkness
but then again it saddens me to know .. why the sleeping bed is that small ..
or is that we think we have alot .. but actually we have very little in real life …
give me a few reasons .. islamically or philosophically ..
enlighten me so i find reasons to adjust me mind to the littleness of the grave
In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep.
He said, "This world is like a closed coffin, in which
We are shut and in which, through our ignorance,
We spend our lives in folly and desolation.
When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin,
Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity,
But those without will remain locked in the coffin.
So, my friends, before the lid of this coffin is taken off,
Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God;
Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers."
Farid ud Din Attar, translation by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut - 'Perfume of the Desert'
In Hinduism death is compared to removing the old clothes and taking on new ones. The Atma never dies. The atma (rhoo) takes on new body and life & death is just a cycle.
The body is cremated, from earth it come and to earth it goes. It suggestes that we should not remember the body too much but concentrate on the good deeds that person had.
a well-known Quranic verse goes like “from her (earth) We created you, and to it We shall return you and then from it once again We shall bring you forth”…
when a person is burried in the grave, u can see that he/she is returned back to the earth…
but when u burn a body, most of it goes as pollution to the air, and the rest of it is collected as ash and put into the river, then where does “going back to earth” come in…
Religions were made by humans to understand the unknown & and to answer their fears.
I cannot claim this is the correct way, but Hinduism does try to minimise this fear of death, by saying the Atma (rhoo) lives on only the body sheds off (like changing clothes). People who believe in reincarnation find this possible.
In a grave all the maggots & insects would eat the body, also if the person died with a deadly desease, it would continue to pollute the environment. Also is the problem of continual burial space required.
