WE WILL NOT LIVE LONG
Sleep with the remembrance of death,
and rise with the thought that you will not live long.
– Awais al-Qarni –
Shaykh Farif al-Din Attar (rahimahu Llah) tells us about him:
During his life in this world, he (Oways) was hiding from all in order to devote himself to acts of worship and obedience. (‘Attar 1976, p. 2).
‘Attar also relates that the Prophet (salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) had declared at the time of his death that his robe should be given to Oways, a man he had never met in this life. When ‘Umar Radi Allahu ‘anhu looked for Uways during his stay in Kufa, he asked a native of Qarn and was answered
There was one such man, but he was a madman, a senseless person who because of his madness does not live among his fellow countrymen (…) He does not mingle with anybody and does not eat nor drink anything that others drink and eat. He does not know sadness nor joy; when others laugh, he weeps, and when they weep, he laughs. (ibid., p. 29).
Sleep with the remembrance of death,
and rise with the thought that you will not live long.
– Awais al-Qarni –
Shaykh Farif al-Din Attar (rahimahu Llah) tells us about him:
During his life in this world, he (Oways) was hiding from all in order to devote himself to acts of worship and obedience. (‘Attar 1976, p. 2).
‘Attar also relates that the Prophet (salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) had declared at the time of his death that his robe should be given to Oways, a man he had never met in this life. When ‘Umar Radi Allahu ‘anhu looked for Uways during his stay in Kufa, he asked a native of Qarn and was answered
There was one such man, but he was a madman, a senseless person who because of his madness does not live among his fellow countrymen (…) He does not mingle with anybody and does not eat nor drink anything that others drink and eat. He does not know sadness nor joy; when others laugh, he weeps, and when they weep, he laughs. (ibid., p. 29).
