Hazrat Ali Radhiyallahu Anhu Passes By A Grave

11 Thul Qa’dah 1439/25 july 2018

Hazrat kumail Radhiallahu anhu says:

” I was with Hazrat ali Radhiyallahu Anhu once on a journey when he reached an uninhabited place; he approached a grave and said: ” Oh you dwellers of the grave! Oh you who live amongst ruins! Oh you who live in the wilderness and solitude! How fare you in the other world? How has it gone with you there? He continued: “The news from our side is that all you left of the wealth and riches here, has long since been distributed; your children are orphans; your widows have long since remarried. Now let us hear about you .” He then turned to me ” Oh Kumail if they could speak, they would have informed us that the best provision for the hereafter is Taqwa.” Tears welled out of his eyes, as he added: “Oh Kumail! the grave is a container of the deeds; but one  realizes it only after death,”

Our good and bad actions are stored up in our graves. It is said in a Hadith that every person meets his good deeds in the grave in the form of an agreeable companion who befriends and consoles him there. But his evil deeds assume hideous shapes emittng bad smells, which add to his misery. In another Hadith it is said: “Three things accompany a person to his grave: His wealth, his relatives, and his deeds His wealth and his relatives turn back after his burial, but his actions go in and stay with him in the grave. 

We make dua that Allah grants us taufeeq to do good deeds in abundance, Aameen