29 August 2016

A short story of a man who feared hypocrisy

"If you ask them (about this), they declare: "We were only talking idly and joking." Say: "Was it at Allah, and His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger (Sallallahu alibi wasallam) that you were mocking?" (Surah Tawba:65)

Ikrimah said in the Tafseer of this verse, "There was a man from among the people (May Allah Forgive him) who was saying , " Oh Allah, I heard a verse that is directed toward myself which make my skin pale and my heart tremble with fear for it. Oh Allah, make me die a death in your way (fee sabeeluka) , without a single person saying, 'I bathed him, I shrouded him, and I buried him'."

"After that he was killed in the Battle of Yamama, and no Muslim looked for him but instead found another (the body of another person, while his body was not found)."

"وَلَئِنْ سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ ۚ قُلْ أَبِاللَّهِ وَآيَاتِهِ وَرَسُولِهِ كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِئُونَ"   Surat Tawba:65

قال عكرمة في تفسير هذه الآية : كان رجل ممن إن شاء الله عفا عنه يقول : اللهم إني أسمع آية أنا أعنى بها ، تقشعر منها الجلود ، وتجب منها القلوب ، اللهم فاجعل وفاتي قتلا في سبيلك ، لا يقول أحد : أنا غسلت ، أنا كفنت ، أنا دفنت ، قال : فأصيب يوم اليمامة ، فما أحد من المسلمين إلا وقد وجد غيره