ALLEGORIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE BELIEVERS
Allegory-1:
Bilohar says, that once a man was passing through a forest, when a wild
elephant attacked him . The man was scared and started running, while
the elephant also chased him. When the man saw that the elephant had
neared him, he became disheartened (and lost hope of surviving).
Suddenly his eyes fell on a nearby well, wherein the branches of a
nearby tree were hanging in it. He caught hold of it and hung in the
well. When he looked at the branches, he saw that two huge rats (one
white and other black) were cutting at the stems speedily. When he
looked towards the feet, he saw four serpents coming out of their
holes. While when he looked inside the well, he saw that a large python
was ready to swallow him, with it's mouth
wide open. Again when he looked on top, he saw a branch filled with
honey. The sweetness and saviour of the honey made him negligent about
the danger of the pythons who could devour him any moment. The well
(referred herein)in the world which is full of miseries and
misfortunes. The branches being the life of man and the two rats being
the days and nights which reduce a man's age. The four
serpents are the four elements by which a man is created, viz. wind,
bill, phlegm, and blood. Man is unaware of these and does not know as
to which of these four would
become the cause of his death. The huge pythone is death which is
always prepared to devout man, while the branch full of honey are the
pleasures and luxuries of this world
(which man sucks negligently). This is the best example of a man
remaining engrossed in the fancies of this world and being careless of
death and the hereafter.
It
is related from Imam Ali (A.S.) that once He was passing through the
market of Basra and the saw some people busy in buying and selling. He
started weeping and turned towards them and said, "O slaves of the word
! And to the kings of this world You are spending your days in false
swearing, interest- eating, and sleeping a sound sleep at night. And
these pleasures have made you forget the hereafter. when will you
gather provisions for the journey, and when will you start thinking
about the hereafter"?
(Here some couplets have been quoted which I do not include in my translation-
translator)
The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.S.) says: "Those people who have become forty years of
age, are like crops whose timeof harvesting has neared. Those who become
fifty years of age hear a voice calling out : What good deeds have you
sent forth before you, and what are you leaving behind you? Those who
reach sixty years of age are ordered to become ready for accounting in
Qayamat, and those who become seventy years of age hear a voice calling
out: Count yourself among the death".
It is related in traditions that a cock calls out daily: O negligent ones !
Take the name of your Lord and remember Him.
(Here the author quotes some couplets of Shaikh Jami I do not state
-translator)
Ref:Manazelul Akherah
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