Asalamu alaykum warahmatullah wabaraktu
A very recent tragic event has made me question myself and the way I have been living my life day to day. I have never been religiously inclined until recently although I have had an Islamic upbringing to which I’m ashamed to say that I never took seriously. In the past 2 weeks I have read a few Islamic books and in one particular book I read the following.
“It is narrated by Ibn Mandah and others that Ibn ‘Abbas said,’the dispute among created beings on the Day of Judgment will continue until the soul and the body dispute. The soul will say to the body,” you did evil things,” and the body will say to the soul,” you told me to do that” Then Allah will send an angel to judge between them. He will say,” you two are like a paralyzed man and a blind man who entered a garden. The paralyzed man saw fruits hanging there and said to the blind man, ‘I can see the fruit but I cannot reach it.’ The blind man said, ‘I can reach it but I cannot see it.’ The paralyzed man said,’ come and lift me up so that I can pick it.’ So he lifted him up so that he could pick it; he carried him and he told him where he wanted him to go so that he could pick the fruit.”The angel will say,” So which of them should be punished?” They will say,” Both of them.” He will say,” The same applies to you two.’’
This paragraph I just quoted is from a book called “The Minor Resurrection” from the Islamic Creed Series. I thought I would share it as I found the above very powerful and frightening. Insha Allah I hope to make good friends here on the forum, who will help guide me and better myself as a person and islamically.
A very recent tragic event has made me question myself and the way I have been living my life day to day. I have never been religiously inclined until recently although I have had an Islamic upbringing to which I’m ashamed to say that I never took seriously. In the past 2 weeks I have read a few Islamic books and in one particular book I read the following.
“It is narrated by Ibn Mandah and others that Ibn ‘Abbas said,’the dispute among created beings on the Day of Judgment will continue until the soul and the body dispute. The soul will say to the body,” you did evil things,” and the body will say to the soul,” you told me to do that” Then Allah will send an angel to judge between them. He will say,” you two are like a paralyzed man and a blind man who entered a garden. The paralyzed man saw fruits hanging there and said to the blind man, ‘I can see the fruit but I cannot reach it.’ The blind man said, ‘I can reach it but I cannot see it.’ The paralyzed man said,’ come and lift me up so that I can pick it.’ So he lifted him up so that he could pick it; he carried him and he told him where he wanted him to go so that he could pick the fruit.”The angel will say,” So which of them should be punished?” They will say,” Both of them.” He will say,” The same applies to you two.’’
This paragraph I just quoted is from a book called “The Minor Resurrection” from the Islamic Creed Series. I thought I would share it as I found the above very powerful and frightening. Insha Allah I hope to make good friends here on the forum, who will help guide me and better myself as a person and islamically.
