পৃষ্ঠা 158: একাদশ অধ্যায়: কবর যিয়ারতের বিধান, শিষ্টাচার ও আন্তরিক আত্মোপলব্ধি

Days never cease to play with a youth, while wealth loses its purity and lawful gain.

Al-Bara' narrated with his chain of transmission from al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad, who said: "I saw a man weeping and said: 'What makes you weep?' He replied: 'His words made me weep.' I asked: 'What were they?' He said: 'We were standing in the graveyards when they recited:'

"I came to the graves and questioned them: where is the honored one, and where is the despised?

And where is the one who humiliated others through his authority? And where is the mighty one when he wielded power?

They have all passed away, so there is no informer; they have all died, and the news has died with them.

O you who ask me about people who have passed away, is there not an admonition for you in what you see?

You go to and fro, yet the earth has decomposed you, erasing the beauties of those forms."

It has been narrated from Ja'far ibn Sulayman, from Malik ibn Dinar, that he said: "I came to the graves and called out to them," then he mentioned the three verses, and then said: "Then an unseen caller called out to me:

"They have perished there, so there is no informer; they have all vanished, and the news has vanished."

Then he also mentioned the other three verses.

Ibn al-Bara' also narrated, with his chain of transmission, that on a certain grave these verses were found written:

"Death has expelled me from the abode of my sovereignty, and the dust is my bed after my luxury.

May Allah have mercy upon a servant who sees my grave and takes heed from it, fearing from his time the uncertainties of changing fortunes.

I seek the forgiveness of Allah for my sins and my anger, and I ask Allah for my triumph on the day of my reckoning.

Such is the destination of the children of this world, even if they lived in bliss therein, and even if long postponement deluded them."

Ibn Abi al-Dunya narrated with his chain of transmission that it was read upon a grave in Shiraz:

"The beloved have departed after long affection; the visiting place has grown distant, so they surrendered you and dispersed.

They abandoned you at the time of your direst need in solitude; they did not comfort you, nor did they avert your distress.

The divine decree was fulfilled and you became a companion of [the dust]; while before the loved ones, they turned away and parted."

And with his chain of transmission, he said: "There was read upon a grave in the graveyards of Basra written: ..."