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Your Message: Smilies [get more]	[quote="Muslimah" pid='32140' dateline='1330081108'] Bismillah as salam alykom, I received this very insightful email and felt to share it over here: It was said in old legends that a man once befriended the angel of death. Whenever he would come, the man would ask him: `Have you come to visit [me] or to take [me]?' – and the angel would reply: `I've come to visit.' One day, the man said to the angel of death: `I ask you in the name of our friendship that you send me a messenger when my time comes; one that informs me that you are coming to take my soul.' – so the angel said: `You shall have that…' Then, the angel came down one day upon the man, so he said to him: `You are coming to visit, yes?' He said: `No, rather to take.' He said: `But your messenger never came to me?!' He said: `Rather, he did… 1. Your back hunching after it was upright; 2. your hair whitening after being black; 3. your voice wavering after it was bold; 4. your weakness replacing your strength; 5. your vision blurring after it was sharp; 6. your despairing after your hopes, 7. and also in those that died before you...' `You requested one messenger, and I sent you a number of messengers, so how can you blame me?' How many messengers reached you until now? [/quote]
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Posted by Muslimah - 02-24-2012, 10:58 AM

Bismillah as salam alykom, I received this very insightful email and felt to share it over here: It was said in old legends that a man once befriended the angel of death. Whenever he would come, the man would ask him: `Have you come to visit [me] or to take [me]?' – and the angel would reply: `I've come to visit.' One day, the man said to the angel of death: `I ask you in the name of our friendship that you send me a messenger when my time comes; one that informs me that you are coming to take my soul.' – so the angel said: `You shall have that…' Then, the angel came down one day upon the man, so he said to him: `You are coming to visit, yes?' He said: `No, rather to take.' He said: `But your messenger never came to me?!' He said: `Rather, he did… 1. Your back hunching after it was upright; 2. your hair whitening after being black; 3. your voice wavering after it was bold; 4. your weakness replacing your strength; 5. your vision blurring after it was sharp; 6. your despairing after your hopes, 7. and also in those that died before you...' `You requested one messenger, and I sent you a number of messengers, so how can you blame me?' How many messengers reached you until now?