The Lion, Mice, Snake & Honeycomb

JazakAllah khayr for sharing

very heart touching and good explanation with reference to these exampkes . ma-shaa-Allah
May ALlah bless all of us with hidayat

Assalamu Alaikum

format_quote Originally Posted by M.I.A.

i dont understand the purpose of the story.

i get the analogy of life.

but it does not show the purpose of life within the analogy.



i mean most people dont even fear death for themselves.

and most honey is accompanied by bee's.

This is the version I've read:

Once upon a time there was a man in the jungle enjoying a nice day watching the equatorial lush green foliage and the exotic animal life. Suddenly, the man heard the movement of a lion behind him and so ran for his life. But the man couldn’t escape and came face to face with the lion. As he was thinking quickly of another way to escape, he saw a deep well to his right. His options were narrowed between drowning in the well and being chewed by the hungry lion.

The man decided to jump into the well, hoisting himself with a rope tied to the top of the well for drawing water. As he reached the bottom of the well, the man saw a huge man-eating snake taking a nap at the bottom; the man pulled himself up in the middle of the well, suspended between a hungry lion on the top and a sleeping snake at the bottom.

Meanwhile, the man noticed that two mice, one black and one white, were chewing the rope he was hanging on, making it thinner and thinner. The man began to swing with the rope hitting the sides of the walls of the well periodically. Suddenly he felt something sticky on his shoulder. As he examined what it was, he found that it was honey. Upon looking around the well he noticed a bee colony on the wall of the well.

The man forgot the dangerous situation he was involved in and started licking the honey to his satisfaction. He suddenly remembered where he was and jumped out of bed. The man was dreaming all along. The man went to a Sheikh to interpret his dream. The Sheikh laughed and asked him: “You do not understand this dream?" The man replied "Yes sir, I do not."

The Sheikh said "The lion that was chasing you is the Angel of Death. The well which housed the snake is your grave. The rope in the well that you were hanging on is your lifetime ticking away. The rodents chewing your rope, the black and the white mice are the day and the night. The man asks "The honey, Sir, What is the honey?" The Sheikh replied “The honey is the life of this world and its temptations which made you forget that there was death behind you and a grave ahead of you. You end up in the grave while savoring the taste of the honey until you find yourself standing trial for your deeds in a Court of Law of the most Just kind.

The above narration was just intended to remind us that we are also busy licking the honey (lost in the temptations of this world) while our life time is ticking away. Some day (sooner or later) we will also face the Angel of Death and will be carried to our grave!

Say: "Verily, the death from which you flee will surely meet you, then you will be sent back to (Allah), the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen, and He will tell you what you used to do." {Surat Al-Jumu`ah, Verse 8}

Basically, time is chasing us, the angel of death is behind us, and we are busy playing around in this dunyaa rather than preparing to meet our Lord.

Well its nice to have known that I met the lion in good conduct and with manners.


:|

While he wrote tomorrow for himself.


The jungle book it ain't.

Car story time..

I went to the petrol station and the man behind the counter recommended me to listen to a ?shiek? Named Tariq jameel..

So I did and he was sat in front of people telling them about what this world costs and how people live and die.

And its a different perspective of it although true just the same.

I wouldn't want any part of it but mana from heaven is something I have no knowledge of.


...it's actually the petrol station and not any sort of wierd analogy.