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A Few Miscellaneous
Stories about the Fear of Allah:
It is very difficult
to cover all that is said in the Qur'an and the Hadith about the importance of
fear of Allah. It may, however, be understood that fear of Allah is an
essential step towards all spiritual advancement. The Prophet (Sallallaho
alaihe wasallam) said:
"Fear of Allah
is the root of all wisdom".
Hadhrat Ibn 'Umar
(Radhiyallaho anho) used to weep so much with the fear of Allah that he lost
his eyesight. He said to somebody watching him:
"You wonder at
my weeping. Even the sun weeps with the fear of Allah."
On another occasion,
he is reported to have said:
"Even the moon
weeps with His fear."
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) once passed by one of the Sahabah who was reciting
the Qur'an. When he came to the verse:
"And when the
heaven splitteth as under and becometh rosy like red hide", the hair of
his body stood on end, and he was nearly choked, with excessive weeping. He
would cry and say:
"Alas; what will
happen to me on the day when even the Heaven splitteth as under. Woe is
me!"
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alai-he-wasallam) said to him:
"Your crying has
made even the angels weep".
Once an Ansari sat
and wept after Tahajjud, saying:
"I cry to Allah
for protection from the fire of Hell".
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) said to him:
"You have made
the angels weep today".
Hadhrat Abdullah bin
Rawahah (Radhiyallaho anho) was once weeping. His wife also began to weep on
seeing him in this condition. He enquired of her:
"Why are you
weeping?"
She replied:
"Whatever makes you weep makes me weep too".
He said: "The
idea that I have to cross the bridge of Siraat across Hell makes me weep. I
don't know whether I shall be able to cross over or fall into Hell".
Zurarah bin Aufa was
leading the Salaat in a masjid. When he recited the verse:
"For when the
Trumpet shall sound; Surely that day will be a day of anguish"!
He fell down and
expired. People carried his body to his house.
Khulaid was saying
his Salaat. During his Qiraat, when he reached the verse:
"Every soul will
taste of death"
He began to repeat it
again and again. He heard a voice from a corner of the room saying:
"How often are
you going to repeat this verse? Your recitation has already caused the death of
four Jinns".
It is reported about
another Sheikh that (while reciting the Qur'an) when he reached the verse:
"Then are they
returned unto Allah, their Lord, the Just, is not His the Command?"
He gave out a cry,
shivered and breathed his last.
There are many
stories of this type. Fudhail, a famous Sheikh, says:
"Fear of Allah
leads to everything that is good".
Shibli, another
Sheikh of high position, says:
"Whenever I have
felt Allah's fear in me, I have found a fresh door of knowledge and wisdom
opened for me".
In a Hadith, it is
said:
"Allah says; 'I
do not impose two fears on my slave. If he does not fear me in this world, I
shall give him fear in the next, and if he fears me in this world I shall save
him
from all fears in the Hereafter".
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) says:
"All things fear
a person who fears Allah, while everything is a source of fear to him who fears
somebody other than Allah."
Yahya bin Ma'az (Rahmatullahi
alaih) says:
"If a man fears
Hell as much as he is afraid of poverty then he may enter into Paradise."
Abu Sulaiman Daarani
(Rahmatullah alaih) says:
"There is
nothing but ruin for a heart that is devoid of fear of Allah."
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) says:
"The face that
gets wet with the smallest drop of tear from the fear of Allah is safe from
entrance into the fire of Hell."
He also said:
"When a Muslim
shivers with the fear of Allah, his sins fall away from him like the falling
leaves of a tree."
The dear Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) has said:
"A person
weeping with fear of Allah cannot go to Hell until milk goes back into the teat
(which is an impossibility)".
Hadhrat Uqbah bin
Amir (Radhiyallaho anho) once inquired of the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe
wasallam).
"What is the way
to salvation?"
He replied:
"Hold your tongue, stay indoors and cry over your sins."
Hadhrat A'ishah (Radhiyallaho
anha) once inquired the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam).
"Is there
anybody among your followers who will go to Paradise without reckoning?"
"Yes,"
replied the Prophet, "the person who often cries over his sins."
There is another
Hadith, in which my dear Master, Muhammad (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) has
said:
"No drop is dearer
to Allah than two drops; a drop of tear shed in the fear of Allah, and a drop
of blood shed in the path of Allah."
It is said in a
Hadith that seven persons would be under the shade of the Arsh on the day of
judgement. One of them would be the person who remembered Allah when all alone
by himself, and tears flowed from his eyes with awe of Allah and in repentance
for his sins.
Hadhrat Abu Bakr
[Radhiyallaho anho) says:
“One who can weep
should do so, and one who cannot should make the appearance of a weeping
person."
It is reported of
Muhammad bin Munkadir (Radhiyallaho anho) that, when he wept, he smeared his
tears over his face and beard saying:
"I have heard
that the fire of Hell does not touch the place touched by these tears."
Thabit Banani was
suffering from a disease of the eyes.
His doctor said to
him:
"Your eyes would
be all right, provided you do not weep in future."
He replied: "What
is the good of an eye if it cannot shed tears."
Yazid bin Maisarah
(Rahmatullah alaih) says:
'There can be seven
reasons for weeping viz., extreme joy, insanity, extreme pain, horror,
artifice, intoxication and fear of Allah. A single tear shed in the fear of
Allah
is sufficient to quench oceans of fire (of Hell)."
Hadhrat Ka'ab Ahbar
(Radhiyallaho anho) says:
"By Him who
holds my life in His (hands), I love to weep for fear of Allah, with tears
flowing down my cheeks, rather than spend a mountain of gold in charity"
There are numerous
other sayings of the Saints and other
pious people, indicating that weeping because of the fear of Allah, and
over one's sins, is very effective and beneficial in attaining spiritual
elevation. We should not, however, lose hope in Allah. His Mercy is
all-embracing.
Hadhrat 'Umar
(Radhiyal!aho anho) says:
"If it be
announced on the Day of Judgement that all except one individual shall go to
Hell, my expectation of the Mercy of Allah would make me hope that I may be
that chosen one. Again, if it be announced on that day that all except one
individual shall go to Paradise, then my sins would make me fear that I may be
that condemned one."
It is therefore
necessary that we should combine fear and hope together in our hearts.
Especially
when the time of death is approaching, we should have more hope than fear.
The Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) says:
"None of you
should die, except with a strong hope in the Mercy of Allah."
When Imaam Ahmad bin
Hanbal (Radhiyallaho anho) approached his end, he sent for his son and asked
him to read to him the Ahaadith that induce hope in Allah and His Mercy.
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