Allaah Kareem's Test- Martydom-"To Allaah we belong, and to Him is our return"
Allaah
[Almighty
and Glorious is He] says in the Holy Qur'aan,
in the 2nd Soorah,
al-Baqarah,
Verse 155 to 157:
Be sure We shall test you with something
of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits [of your toil],
but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere. Who say, when afflicted
with calamity:
"To
Allaah we belong, and to Him is our
return"
They are those on whom blessings
descend from their Lord, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive
guidance.
Martyrdom on the path of Almighty Allaah,
to give one’s life, is an act of Grace from Allaah Amighty [an-ni’maah]
and Blessing [sa’adat] that we can determine it from a
saying of the Holy Prophet
[Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam], his family and his companions) in
which he says:
I swear by Almighty Allaah, I
would love to be martyred in the path of Allaah Kareem, thereafter brought back to life in this
temporal world and be martyred again. Then be brought back to life and be
martyred again.
The Holy
Prophet [Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam], his family and his companions
expressed a desire to be martyred again and again....excerpt Event of Karbalaa-by Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi [Rahmatul Laahi Alaieh]-Brief Translation by Irshad Soofi Siddiqui
