Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem "In the
Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful”
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ
وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
As salaam alaykum ramatullahi wa
barakthu "May the peace of Allah be upon you, and His mercy and
Dear friends,
Today I would like to invite your
attention in to two nice events happened in the life of a great man named Abu
Eshaq Ibrahim ibn Adham generally
called as Ibrahim ibn Adham
. Abu Eshaq
Ibrahim ibn Adham was born in
Balkh and of Arab descent. He is one of the earliest documented great Sufis. He
was a King of Balkh who renounced his throne for a spiritual kingdom and
wandered to live a life of complete asceticism, earning his bread in Syria by
honest manual toil until his death in c. 165 AH (782 AD).
Once he passed by a sad
man and told him, “I want to ask you about three things, so answer me. Does
anything in this universe happen against the will of Allah?”
The man denied and
Ibrahim said, “Does your daily bread decrease from what Allah has decided for
you?”
The man again denied
and Ibrahim said, “Will your life end even one second earlier than Allah has
decided for you?”
And again, the man
denied. So Ibrahim said, “So why is the sadness?”
Another event was that
a man came to Ibrahim ibn Adham and said, “I do a lot of bad deeds, so tell me
things that can forbid me from doing wrong.”
Ibrahim answered, “If
you accepted five traits and were able to do them, you would not commit any bad
deed again.
The first one is if you want to disobey Allah,
do not eat from His bounty.”
The man said, “So where
can I eat from and all the earth belongs to Him?”
Ibrahim answered, “Is
it right to eat from His bounty and disobey Him?”
The man said, “No. Tell
me the second.”
Ibrahim said, “If you
want to disobey Him, do not live in any of His lands.”
The man said, “This is
harder, so where can I live?”
Ibrahim said, “Is it
right to eat from His bounty, live in His lands, and then disobey Him?”
The man denied and
asked for the third.
Ibrahim said, “If you
want to disobey Him while you eat from His bounty and live in His lands, then
disobey Him in a place where He cannot see you.”
The man said, “How and
He even knows what is going on inside my head?”
Ibrahim answered, “So,
can you eat from His bounty, live in His lands, disobey Him while He sees you
and knows what you want to say and what you have kept secret to yourself?”
The man said “No” and
asked for the fourth.
Ibrahim said, “If the angel
of death comes to take your soul, tell him ‘Leave me till I repent and do good
deeds.’”
The man said that he
would not accept and Ibrahim replied, “If you cannot escape death and know that
if it comes it will not be delayed, how can you wish to be saved?”
The man asked for the
fifth and Ibrahim continued, “If angels of torment come to you on the Day of
Judgment to take you to Hell, do not go with them.”
The man said, “They
will not let me go.”
Ibrahim replied, “So
how do you wish to be rescued, then?”
And the man responded,
“Ibrahim, enough, enough! I will repent to Allah.” His repentance was a true
one and he kept worshiping till the end of his life.
I hope you could
understand the above stories and please obey Allah also kindly include me in
your prayer
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