Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 191
8 December 1905 191 1 اَم ْيِرْدَت ٌۢسْفَن ِّيَاِب ٍضْرَا ُتْوُمَت اَم ْيِرْدَت ٌۢسْفَن ِّيَاِب ٍضْرَا ُتْوُمَت However, what a subtle point [is hidden] in this that it is not written: ُ اَرْض ٍ تُدْفَن ِّ بِاَی ُ اَرْض ٍ تُدْفَن ِّ بِاَی [in what land it will be buried]. Being bur- ied next to the righteous is also a blessing. It is written about Hadrat ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, that when he was dying, he sent word to Hadrat Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, requesting that he be given the [burial] place on the side of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Hadrat Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, benevolently granted him that place. Upon this, he said: َ مَا بَقِی َ لِی ْ ھَم ٌّ بَعْد َ ذٰلِك َ مَا بَقِی َ لِی ْ ھَم ٌّ بَعْد َ ذٰلِك meaning that I have no worries left as I am buried in the tomb of the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him. Proximity also leads to prosperity. I like this. Moreover, it is not an innovation to place inscriptions on graves. This serves as an admonition, and every inscription is a history of the Jam a ‘at. My advice is that everyone is on the edge of a grave in one way or another. Someone gets advance notification of his death, and someone dies suddenly. Life is transient. There are many people whose houses become entirely deserted. A person witnesses such events, and the heart remains tender so long as dirt is being heaped upon the grave, but there- after the heart becomes hardened. This is unfortunate. 2 1. No soul knows in what land it will die ( S u rah Luqm a n, 31:35). [Publisher] 2. Al- H akam, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 13, dated 7 January 1909