Laugh Less and Weep Much

Abu Dharr (r.a.) narrated that Allah's messenger (s.a.w.) said:

''Surely I see what you do not see and hear that which you do not hear. The heaven creaks and it has the right to creak. There is not space of four fingers on it but one or the other angel is prostrating there.

 If you were to know what I know then you will laugh less and weep much, and will not go to your wives on their beds, but will lose yourself in the wilderness and beseech Allah weeping much.''

Abu Dharr (r.a.) said ''By Allah how I wish I were a tree that would be chopped.''

(Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Ahmad, Haakim, Targhib)

       

Anas (r.a.) narrated that the Prophet (s.a.w.) said:

''I have been permitted to disclose about one of the bearers of the Throne, that the feet of this angel are on the lowest earth while the Throne stands on the top of his head and the distance between the lobe of his ear and his shoulder is what would take a bird seven hundred years to fly (from end to end). And the angel says (Glory be to You as You are Glorious.)   (Tiyalsi, Abu Nu'aym)



      Subhan'Allah !

Malak ul-Maut (Alayhis Salaam) - The Angel of Death

The Angel of Death is responsible for collecting the souls of mankind at the time of their death.
Allah (s.w.t.) says in the Holy Qur'an:

Say, ''The angel of death, who has been given your charge, shall take your souls, then you shall be returned to your lord.''  (32:11)

Ja'far ibn Muhammad narrated on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) saw the Angel of Death at the head of an Ansari sahabi (at the time of his death).

The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: ''Oh Angel of Death, be mild to my companion. He is a believer.''

Malak ul-Maut said: ''Oh Muhammad! do not worry! I am the friend of every believer. There is not an unbuilt or a built home on land or sea that I do not visit five times a day and watch its inmates carefully. In fact, I know their young and old better than they do. By Allah, O Muhammad! I cannot extract the soul of even a mosquito unless Allah commands me to take away its soul.''

(Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Tabarani 4/261, Al-Jama, Haythami 2/32, Ibn Abu Hatim)

So lets stop and ask ourselves....

                       Are we ready to go with our visitor ?


Are we preparing for our meeting with this angel by doing good deeds? Or are we passing the time away, wasting our time and storing up sins for ourselves? (i'm asking this question to myself) The Angel of Death may take us at any time.


Here is a video which makes this point very well.

Remembering the Angels

I came across this passage in a book and wanted to share it because i think its something that is easy to forget sometimes. That the angels are with us....


'' And surely over you are (appointed) guardians, noble writers, they know whatsoever you do.'' (Qur'an 82: 10-12)


Mujahid narrated that Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) said:

''Honour the noble writers who never part from you save in two cases: when one is sexually defiled or when one relieves oneself. When anyone has a bath, let him screen himself by the side of a wall or his camel, or his brother may screen him.'' (Ibn Abu Hatim Razi in his tafsir)

Ibn Abbas (r.a.) narrated that Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.) said:

''Allah forbids you to strip. So show modesty before Allah and those noble writers who are with you. They do not leave you except in one of three cases: when you excrete, are defiled or have a bath. When one of you bathes in the nude, let him screen himself with his garment, or by the edge of the wall, or behind his camel.'' (Bazzar)

To respect them is to observe diffidence in their presence and not to do anything shameful that they are compelled to (observe and) record. Allah has created them noble natured and of a good character.

(from the book 'The Story of the Creation' by Imam Ibn Kathir)