Saturday, 26 October 2013

Please think- Olubisi Olabisi

I am lying on the bed. My children, brothers and
sisters are all sitting by my bedside. Some close
friends too are standing and overlooking my face.
Suddenly I startd breathing with long breaths.
Someone among the people sitting in the room starts
to recite, Surah Ya'siin. Everyone around repeats with
the reciter. My breath starts to ease out. I am opening
my eyes and looking at something. Angel of death
has arrived. I am getting late for the eternal journey.
My mouth has opened up. My brother is dropping
some water into my mouth, it is perhaps the "Zam
Zam" water which I had preserved for the very
moment.
Then everyone starts to recite, "Laa'ilaaha illallaaha
Muhammadur Rasoolullaah". I have lost my vision. I
have lost my tongue, I have even lost my sensation
but I can still hear. I can hear my loved ones weeping
in grief. I'm not dead yet but I am almost lifeless.
Angel of death makes the final act and takes my soul
out with an intensive jerk. I have now left this world.
All my wealth, cars, properties, bank balances,
contacts and connections are of no use now. My
identity is my grave and I am being referred to as
'dead body'. My near ones are preparing my grave
and some of them think it as inauspicious to keep the
dead body inside the house for too long. The house
which I myself built and lived in is shrinking in space
for me. My bath is being prepared. I am taken out in
the compound for the final bath. My bathroom fitted
with expensive bath fittings is not for me now.
I am being wrapped in the white cotton shroud. I am
boxed in a wooden box for the travel to my grave. My
expensive car is not for me now.
For what then did I amass so many worthless things.
Why did I lie to earn the useless wealth. It is of no use
to me. Woe to me for I wasted my life in vain. I forgot
that my last journey is near and certain. Why did I sin
so much ? Oh! I have lost my game.
Now stop imagining This is going to happen one day
with you and me. So be prepared. Good deeds will
make your journey and the life of the Hereafter
pleasant. Remember death. It is certain. It is so near.
This world is just a short dream.
PLEASE THINK!!!!!!!!

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