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An elderly man met a rich man who
was walking very proudly. They were in two different worlds. The rich
man was drowned in the thoughts of his wealth while the other was
drowned in the thoughts of Allah
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Seeing this rich man walking so arrogantly, the elderly person recited
a verse from the Holy Quran, which means, “Do not walk arrogantly in
the earth. Neither can you tear the ground by the stamping of your
feet, nor can you reach the heights of the mountains.”
The rich man
retorted angrily, “Don’t you know me old man?” The old man replied,
اوّلك نطفة قذرة وآخرك جيفة مذرة وبين ذلك تحمل عذرة
(Your
beginning was an impure droplet, your end will be an unclean corpse
and in between this birth and death, you carry faeces and other filth
in your stomach).” The rich man was stunned by these words from this
lover of Allah
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and finally said, “Jazākallāh,
you have opened my eyes. I have now realized what I am.”
Man cannot claim a more
superior status than the angels on the merits of this body alone.
Everything of this body is merely a shadow: the beauty of youth fades,
and if he fails to bath, his body begins to smell. Moreover, man is
so weak that a little virus can incapacitate him, and his beautiful
vigour fades immediately from his face.
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