Subject: A story to REFLECT Life!!
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 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 luxuries 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,