The thoughts and prayers of sincere believers revolve
around their Lord. And they spend their moment in the Universe with a wider
consciousness about the fleeting nature of time and would try to remain detached
from, and unaffected by, events around them. In a recent conversation, the Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim
Sahib (atba) of Mauritius profoundly explained the right attitude to life to be adopted
by true believers. Hadhrat Sahib (atba) was responding in the context of a mail
written by a father about his little child’s dream and a subsequent incident at
the house of the person concerned. For the benefit of our readers we reproduce
below extracts from the exchanged letters.
The letter addressed to Hadhrat
Sahib (atba) read as follows:
“...A couple of days back in the
morning, our little ... (child) got up to say that he saw a dove in his dream. And I was
wondering what could that dream may mean.
This morning, it so
happened that a dove entered the main hall of our house from the balcony and
got hit in the ceiling fan, which was at full speed and it fell dead. A bird
flying high, gets caught up in a revolving machine and it fell dead on its
wings, in the blink of an eye. Between the throbbing life and the stillness of
mortality there was nothing but a transient moment.
Kindly pray that
Allah (swa)'s Mercy and Grace allow us to do some good deeds before one's time
is up,
Wassalam,
In view of this letter, Hadhrat Sahib (atba) responded:
“...Verily death is an inevitable turn of our life. Indeed we all must
pray to Allah that we stay firm to Him and His signs until our last breath, for
like a dove, pure and chaste, the disciples of the Messenger of Allah may be
counted among the messengers of peace around the world. A true believer is
he/she who remains true to his/her faith until his/her final hour on earth.
There is something that this humble self have always said to my
disciples and close ones ever since Allah has elevated me as His Messenger:
Life should be lived as
if there is no tomorrow, worship of Allah should be done as if there is no hope
to see another minute and thus it becomes imperative for a true believer that he/she recognizes the
Messenger of Allah of his times before his/her time is up and that he/she sacrifices
himself/herself to his/her utmost capacity so that he/she may be counted among
the elites in the sight of Allah.
As for those of his disciples who die before their divinely-sent
chief-in-command, they are blessed in an extraordinary way for they get to live
for the cause of Allah and His Messenger, sacrifices over sacrifices and get to
have the prayers of the Messenger of Allah for them. Those are the forerunners
of the divine manifestation in the hereafter. [Inset: Sahibzada Abdul Latif (1853- July 14, 1903) became
the first martyr of the
Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya within a year of his accepting the Divine Message of the
Promised Massih (as). He was executed for exercising the fundamental human rights of freedom of conscience, of expression, of faith and belief by the unfortunate kingdom of Afghanistan and the incident took place in 1903, during the very life
time of the Promised Massih (as).
Like Allah says in the Holy Quran: “…Those who
die shall die after clear proof (for a clear reason) and those who survive may
survive for a clear reason…” (8: 43)
Verily physical death while remaining true to the Signs of Allah is
infinitely better than Spiritual death which invites to the wrath of Allah both
in this world and the next. While a believer should never seek death, but he
should pray in this wonderful way: “O Allah, keep me alive so long as
it is in my best interest and give me death when it is in my best interest.” (Ameen).