This is a story I came up with at 2 am last night...its been a while...
Greetings of Peace
It is Friday, the thirteenth of Ramadan, 1482AH, I suddenly feel very exhausted. Just as I am about to go for Friday prayers my legs feel exhausted, as if they cannot support my weight anymore. Then I feel myself collapsing and drag myself to the nearest sofa, as I do that I see an enormous creature before me...
....he has a smile so big I feel enveloped by a sense of worry which soon turns into a euphoric feeling. Is this I thought...is this...the time...is he the angel of death?...There appears to be a glow around him
In the distance hear the faint cries of my family saying...shouting in the distance.
It all seems so far away....yet in the distance I can see a man on a camel welcoming me with arms outstretched , and he to has a smile on his face. Who is this man with the white Jallabiyyah and such a kind face....his gestures are welcoming...
Suddenly I feel a pain that I have never felt before as my soul reaches my throat and then more screaming....
...and as my lips move for the last time they form the words “La.... ilaha Illal...Lah Muhammad Rasul...Lallah”. I can hear the doas of my family they envelop me and comfort me like a warm blanket on a cold winter day ....as the weather around me flows from a chill to a cold breeze on a warm summer day...in front of me I can see gardens with such beauty and splendor , with so much green and yellow and blue a kaleidoscope of colours and a smell so fragrant that even the rose I gave to my beloved wife on our honeymoon could not compare, and the delight that I feel as that smell draws closer...I swear by God never have I ever smelt something of that...in the world that I am leaving behind.
I ask myself where and why?....why?...what did I do to deserve such a reward...as I turn my face to my right I see the most beautiful creatures that I have ever seen and when I send greetings on them they reply with that wonderful greeting “Salama....Peace...Peace be upon you oh servant of Allah....you have truly fulfilled your destiny”.
I hear people washing my body, they wash it and my youngest son stands there...controlling his grief...as he performs the mandatory bath and covers my body with a simple white cloth.
I hear in the distance the Imam reciting the Janazah Prayer over my body as the congregation prays behind him....subhanallah how many people are here...I wonder as I see lines after lines fill up the masjid...
I look back at my life and think what did I do and I ask the angels...what have I done to be blessed with such a reward...pray do tell me so I can tell me fellow man to follow this path and do the deed that has brought me here...to this wonderful place. They reply “Allah loved that quality in you that when the world abandoned you, when the world did not believe in you, you turned to him and said “Oh My Lord! The Most beneficent! The Most Merciful! I seek sustenance from you!... Save my family and I...my Rabb ....save us from the evils of Riba and Bribery! Save us my Lord and give us Barakah in our earnings for you are the best to provide sustenance!”.
This the angels replied made you enter the Gardens of Bliss. I then stand in awe and reply to the angels , Allah [swt] gave me Mansions in the Dunia, he blessed me with good fortune and good company...and in the Akhirah he has blessed me with the company of the prophets and the akhirah is forever...
“Whoever submits his whole self to Allah, And is a doer of good, has grasped indeed the most trustworthy handhold; and with Allah rests the end and decision of (all) affairs”
Surah Luqman : Verse 22
