Heard a really nice message in the Khutba today, thought I’d share it here.
A man was passing through some place when he heard a growling noise behind him, and the source of the noise was getting closer and closer. He turned to find a lion chasing him. The man ran and ran, found a well and jumped into it. Luckily for him, there was a rope attached so he was able to cling onto it. He looked down and saw a huge snake at the pit of the well. He then looked up to and saw mice (one white and one black) biting at his rope.
The man then felt something viscous on the wall (i think thats what the Iman said) of the well. He touched it and found it to be Honey. He began eating it, enjoying it well as he ate more and more of it. By now the mice had chewed through the rope and he fell to the pit.
The man then woke up to find it was a dream!
The next morning he went to a Sheikh to understand what it all meant… the Sheikh explained it as such:
The Lion was the Angel of Death, and its only ever getting closer and closer
the Well with the snake were your grave
the Rope represents your life
The Mice were Night & Day, that were chewing into your life
and the Honey were the attractions of this world that made you forget about all other realities surrounding you!
Subhanallah! May Allah forgive me if I have written anything out-of-place.
Heard a really nice message in the Khutba today, thought I'd share it here.
A man was passing through some place when he heard a growling noise behind him, and the source of the noise was getting closer and closer. He turned to find a lion chasing him. The man ran and ran, found a well and jumped into it. Luckily for him, there was a rope attached so he was able to cling onto it. He looked down and saw a huge snake at the pit of the well. He then looked up to and saw mice (one white and one black) biting at his rope.
The man then felt something viscous on the wall (i think thats what the Iman said) of the well. He touched it and found it to be Honey. He began eating it, enjoying it well as he ate more and more of it. By now the mice had chewed through the rope and he fell to the pit.
The man then woke up to find it was a dream!
The next morning he went to a Sheikh to understand what it all meant.... the Sheikh explained it as such:
The Lion was the Angel of Death, and its only ever getting closer and closer
the Well with the snake were your grave
the Rope represents your life
The Mice were Night & Day, that were chewing into your life
and the Honey were the attractions of this world that made you forget about all other realities surrounding you!
Subhanallah! May Allah forgive me if I have written anything out-of-place.
Wassalam.
Peace Sister
Nice story, but where is the reproof in this? The story is incomplete ... The man ran away from death (Lion) so he feared it, but Muslims are supposed to embrace it. The man's grave was shown as a snake does that mean he would receive punishment in his grave or not or is it merely the threat of punishment, and if it is only the threat then that is no more information than what the Qur'an already alludes us to.
The rope is said to be the life, but the life is not going anywhere and if the well is the world which it must be because the honey (attractions of the world) was lining the walls then the walls themselves must be the world, the rope was entirely inside the well, therefore there was no life outside the well ... does that mean there is no afterlife for this man?
There is more to this story ... the man did not climb out so he was bound to that pit with the snake in it. The story would be complete if then the Shiekh explained to the man to not fear death and begin to leave depending on the attractions of this dunya for happiness and to realise that his personal death was close.
I do not know if there is more to this story… the khutba was already running late and a lot of ppl had classes to attend (it was at uni)… so he ended it there so we could all pray and go…
I see you point… I guess the point is we are all making our way slowly (or maybe not) but surely into our respective graves… yaani we are all heading towards death, and the time we have till the Angel of Death does pay us a visit, is only getting shorter. Most of dont embrase “death” as we havn’t done enough to take a good account from this transient life into the permanent one… I guess that may have been the point the Lecturer was trying to make… Allah hu Alim. I guess he may have elaborated more had there been more time.
