Last Friday, 11th Sept., I came home from the terawih prayers and while resting in the TV room, watched Al-Hidayah. The Ustaz were discussing about Death, and the signs before death comes, at it was a very good tazkirah for me. However the discussion on tv reminded me of my visit to the graveyard one day after my father-in-law died. My father-in-law, or Bak, as we called him, died in hospital a few days after he fell from a slippery rambutan tree after a rainy day, to pick some rambutan fruits for his grandchildren. Bak had placed a lot of large rough stones under the tree to prevent erosion as the tree grew on a 15 degree slope next to the house. He had suffered from fractured spine and skull.
We all went to the graveyard on his burial day, but I went to his grave the next day alone to give him last respect and read the Yaasin again, and perform more supplications. When I laid the tikar and began to sit, suddenly my hand was bitten by an ant ,or was it an arachnid?? It was rather large for an ant, but it had a large rounded abdomen, and the bite was very painful ,and the bitten area was on fire. The poison must have been really strong. I didnt kill the creature but just threw it away, and nursed my hand till it felt better. I continued to read my Yaasin and made doa, and I left soon after. The graveyard was a small hilly area in Batu 3, Shah Alam, and we had to climb up a flight of white concrete stairs on the slope that rises immediately beside the roadside. As I climbed down the stairs, I was horrified to see several large black scorpions in the dry drain that ran right under the last step of the concrete stairs.
It had transcended on me after watching Al-Hidayah that night, that; what I had experienced and saw was a special reminder from Allah azza wa Jalla.....
Could the fiery poisonous spider-ant, and the large black scorpions the creatures that will taunt and sting the dead within the realms of the Barzakh....??
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