Remembering Death

Once a man saw in his dream, that a lion was chasing him. the man ran to a tree, climbed on to it and sat on a branch. He looked down and saw that the lion was still there waiting for him.

The man then looked to his side where the branch he was sitting on was attached to the tree and saw that two rats were circling around and eating the branch. One rat was black and the other one was white. The branch would fall on the ground very soon.

The man then looked below again with fear and discovered that big black snake had come and settled directly under him. The snake opened it's mouth right under the man so that he will fall to it.

The man then looked up to see if there was anything that he could hold on to. he saw another honeycomb. Drops of honey were falling from it.

The man wanted to tasted one of the drops. So he puts his tounge out and tasted one of the fallen drops of honey. The honey was amazing in taste. So he wanted to taste another drop. As he did he got lost into the sweetness of the honey.

Meanwhile, he forgot about the two rats eating his branch away, the lion on the ground and the snake that is sitting right under him.

After a while, he woke up from his sleep.

To get the meaning behind this dream, the man went to a pious scholar of Islam. The Islamic scholar who interpret the dream said, the lion you saw is your death. It always chases you and goes wherever you go.

The two rats, one black and one white, are the night and the day. Black one is the night and the white one is the day. They circle around, coming one after another, to eat your time as they take you closer to death.

The big snake with a dark mouth is your grave. It's there, just waiting for you to fall on it.

 The honeycomb is the world and the sweet honey is the luxuries of the world. We like to taste a drop of the luxuries of this world but it's very sweet. Then we taste another drop and yet another.

Meanwhile, we got lost into it and we forget about our time, we forget about our death and we forget about our graves.

It is narrated that Holy Prophet Muhammad saw has said: " Most intellectual of man is he remembers the death most."

It also narrated that Holy Prophet Muhammad saw has said: "One who gains the love and grace of ALLAH SWT, always end (Ajal) will be before his eyes and he will be always worried about his death. But the one who take satan (shaitan) as his friend and becomes Bad-Bakht. Shaitan overpowers him and indulge (Giraftaar) him in long desires and then he never remember death."

resources : Islamic websites