Chapter VI: Love, Longing, Contentment
Haran-b-Hayan said : When I heard this from Hazrat Omar, I came to Kufa and searched for Wais Qarni and found him at noon washing cloths in the bank of the Tigirs. I found him strong and stout, with bald head, thick beard, and broad face. I asked him :
How are yoi^O wais ? He replied : O Haran, son of Hayan, how are you ? Who did tell you my address ? I said : God. I wondered how he came to know my name when he did not see me before. I asked him : How have you come to know my name and the name of my father? He said : The Almighty gave me this information.
My soul recognized your soul when I talked with you. Similarly a believer can recognise another believer. I said : Tell me a Hadis of the Prophet. He said : I never had any companionship with the Holy Prophet but I saw some of his companions and heard some traditions from them. Then he recited the Quranic verse : I have not created the heavens and earth and what is between them out of sport. I created them with truth, but most people do not know — 44 : 39 Q. When he read up to this, he raised a loud shriek and said : O Haran, your father Hayan has died and you will soon die. Hazrat Adam, his wife Hawa, prophets Noah, Moses, David and even Muhammad, the world Prophet, died. Hazrat Abu Bakr died and my friend Hazrat Omar also has just expired. Alas, O Omar, alas, O Omar. I said : Hazrat Omar has not died. I saw him alive when I left him. He said : My Lord has just now given me the news that Omar has expired. Then he said to Haran : Walk in the path of God's Book and the believers and pious men. The news of your and my death have come. Don't be unmindful even for a twinkling of an eye. When you will return to your people, give sermons to them. Don't go a single step from the Jamaat of a Muslims. Invoke for me and for you. Haran I entrust you to God.
May God shower mercy on you. You will not see me again. I am going this way and you go that way.
MEANING OF THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT WORLD
It will be clear to you from what has been described above that the things on which the sun casts its rays and the things
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