Unbearable Pain of Piercing Arrows not felt.
Once our Prophet SAW was returning
after Jihad (battle for Justice) while returning he and his party decided for a
respite. He instructed that two persons should act as guard and keep watching
and patrolling while others may take comfortable sleep to awake afresh. Two
aspirants offered their services and were instructed to go towards the top of hill
and Prophet reminded them to be careful
lest the enemy attack us in the darkness of night and affect one and all of us.
Both approached site, kept sitting for a while and then consulted with each
other and decided that if both of them
keep on awakening, may be in the last phase of night hours they may feel sleepy.
So it is better that turn by turn one may sleep while other keep awakened, as,
this will complete their task and the instruction of the Prophet. The person
who did not sleep had a careful look in his surrounding. After regular
intervals he decided how nice it will be
for him to offer two rakats each of the late night prayers, so he started Salat
and in each Rakat he recited SURE- KAHAF in which he felt so relished that he
kept on reciting the same each time.
Mean while some enemies
happened to passed by their side and
noted that the warrior party are in deep
sleep and no one was seen to guard them, but when one of them saw the top of the hill he saw a person
standing there, he targeted his arrow on the standing person (offering prayer) blood came as fountain from his body but he
was busy in recitation without getting disturbed. The second arrow passed through
his body, the enemy had targeted many arrows one by one so the bleeding process
was non stop. When the prayers were nearly on completion, then only he saw lot
of blood lost from his body he thought that due to the weakness he may fall
down and become unconscious if it happens so then who will call the fellow
guard to discharge his duty of safety of his party as instructed. It may lead
to his irresponsibility and great fault on his part of his duty. He quickly
completed the prayer and called his fellow(who was sleeping), apprised him that
he has multiple arrows shooted on him but recitation of Surah Kahaf remained undisturbed
and he continued completing Rakat after Rakat
and therefore he could not feel the pains of the arrows.
Note that recitation of Quran in real sense
fearing Allah with full sanctity prevents the feeling of excruciating
unbearable pain. Is it not a miracle of Quran. His sacrifice made him martyr
entitled for entering heaven by the
grace of Allah. INSHALLAH Ameen
Angels Descended on listening Recitation of Quran.
One of the favorite colleagues
of our Prophet SAW was regularly offering late night prayers one night when he
was reciting Quran. In his salat, he was self motivated from the core of his heart
he should recite Quran in louder tone. But, as, his house was very small the
open space in it was limited in which his horse was standing, and on a cot a child was sleeping, if he
raises the sound of recitation, the horse may gets disturbed and there is a risk
that the disturbed horse may kick the sleeping child and therefore he had to
keep his voice at low tone but again his strong desire overpowered to recite
with raised voice the whole night during offering Salat same incident passed in
the same sequence full of fluctuation, resulting ultimately in shedding of enormous tears repainting
for failing to complete his honest desire. When the dawn replaced darkness of night he saw in the early morning sky,
with his raised hands of supplication, he saw to his astonishment that some
bright light objects where receding with super fast speed from over his head
towards from the far end of the sky.
later in the morning he
approached our Prophet and apprised of the wonderful happening during the dawn
and his incomplete desire to recite Quran loudly in his late night prayers.
Prophet replied that those scintillating bright beautiful objects were angels
which came down from the heaven to listen your Recitation of Quran, if you
could be successful in reciting the verses of Quran during your prayers at
raised voice, today, the people of Madina could see the angels from their eyes
so is the significance of recitation of the verses of Quran in true sense
coupled with fear of Allah that attracts angels too, only to listen and record
the same.
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