The lion, rats,
snake and the honey comb - a beautiful story
I heard the following story from
a pious brother. Hopefully, this story will be beneficial for everyone,
Inshallah.
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 a big black snake had come and
settled directly under him. The snake opened its mouth right under the man so
that he will fall into it. The man then looked up to see if there was anything
that he could hold on to. He saw another branch with a honeycomb. Drops of honey
were falling from it. The man wanted to taste one of the drops. So, he put his
tongue 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 a pious scholar of Islam. The scholar said "The
lion you saw is your death. It always chases you and goes where ever 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 black snake
with a dark mouth is your grave. It's there, just waiting for you to fall into
it. The honeycomb is this world and the sweet honey is the luxaries of this
world. We like to taste a drop of the luxaries of this world but it's very
sweet. Then we taste another drop and yet another. Meanwhile, we get lost into
it and we forget about our time, we forget about our death and we forget about
our graves."
May Allah wake us up from the sleep and save us before it's
too late. Ameen.
