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“
Allahu Akbar
,
Allahu Akbar
” - ‘God is great, God is great’ were the
words of the call to the prayer from the mosque that startled and woke
up Abdullah. He immediately said, “
Allahu Akbar
!”
He looked around with vacant eyes. He could not fathom where he
was at that moment. He remembered that he was standing in front of
the Almighty God. He thought hard. He realised that he was still in front
of the Almighty; he was sitting in front of the Kaaba in The Sacred
Mosque. It was the time for morning prayers and people were walking
around.
Abdullah asked himself, “Was it all a dream?”
He replied to himself, “But all of that was real; The Day of
Judgement, the gathering in the Paradise and my appearance in front of
the Almighty… If all of that was real, what is this? And if this is the
reality, then what was that truer-than-life experience? Was that a
dream or is this a dream?”
Abdullah continued to mumble to himself:
“What if I wake up one day and realise that what I had experienced
in the world was just a dream and the reality was in fact the life of the
Hereafter?”
A Nur-like light was descending onto the courtyard of The Sacred
Mosque. The atmosphere was lit with milky white lights. The sky was
still dark but this place had more activity than seen elsewhere during
the day. This was the
Haram
of Mecca. It was the Kaaba of the Faithful,
the centre for those who loved God. The servants of God, both men and
women, had gathered here from all corners of the world. They had
come here from all nations of the world and had various ethnic origins.
All were busy in reciting the praise of the Lord, the Almighty God.
It was Abdullah’s last night in the sacred Haram. However, this last
night had now become the most precious night of his life. By now, he
had managed to come out of the state of bewilderment he was in
earlier. He looked at the Haram and then all around him. Outside, tall
buildings surrounded the Haram. This gave birth to a new emotion in
him. He started to cry. He prayed most earnestly to the Almighty God:
“My Lord, the apocalypse is almost here. Barefooted goat
shepherds are making tall buildings; the prophecy of your beloved last
Prophet has now been fulfilled. Now I have to convey your message to
your servants. I must shake them from their slumber. I must apprise
them about the catastrophe of the Day of Judgement before it arrives. I
have to warn people oblivious to the impending danger.
Love of the world now dominates concerns for the Hereafter in the
hearts of people. People are oblivious to the day when they will have to
face you, my Lord! The rulers are tyrants and the commoners are
ignorant. The rich are intoxicated with their wealth while the poor are
content with their current state. Traders are steeped in profiteering,
hoarding, and deception. Politicians are manifestly dishonest. The
servants shirk from their work. Men have dedicated their lives to
amassing wealth while women only seem to care about their
beautification and showing themselves off.”
Tears were running down Abdullah’s face. He was beseeching the
Lord with a prayer, whose acceptance was probably ordained by now:
“My Lord, today people are leading lives full of oppression and
worldliness, oblivious to your presence. The religious people are fanning
sectarianism in the name of religion or are entangled in politics. No one
is there to remind people of the imminent meeting with you.
Please accept me as your humble servant to undertake this
endeavour. Grant me the faculties that would enable me to paint the
true picture of meeting with you and the life of the Hereafter. My Lord!
Enable me to depict a life-like scene of that great event to your servants
described by you in the Qur’an and warned of by your beloved last
Prophet. The humanity is not aware that the time for action granted to
it is almost over. Please accept me as the one who will warn your other
servants.
My Lord! Guide the entire humanity towards you. And if you have
decided to finish off everything, then make it easy for me to guide as
many people towards Paradise as possible. To lead them to you…
before the Trumpet is blown… before the time to act has passed.”
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