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` When this noble verse was sent down "GOD does not love any proud and boastful one" (31:18),
Thaabit shut his house door and kept crying. It was a long time before the Messenger of Allah (PBUH)
knew about him. He sent for him and asked. Thaabit said, "O Messenger of Allah! I like beautiful clothes
and foot wear. I am afraid to be of the arrogant." The Prophet (PBUH) laughed with content and
answered, "You are not one of them. You'll live and die with blessings and enter Paradise."
And when the following words of Allah the Exalted were sent down "O you who believe! Do not
raise your voices above the Prophet's voice, and do not speak loudly to him, as you speak to one another,
lest your deeds are rendered fruitless, while you are unaware" (49 :2), Thaabit shut himself indoors and
kept crying again. When the Messenger missed him, he asked about him and sent or him. When Thaabit
came, the Prophet (PBUH) asked him the reason for his absence. Thaabit answered, "I have a loud voice
and I used to raise my voice above your voice, Messenger of Allah (PBUH). My deeds are rendered
fruitless then, and I'm of the people of the Fire." The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) answered, "You are
not one of them. You'll live praiseworthy and be martyred, and Allah will let you into Paradise."
One incident is left in Thaabit's story about which those whose thoughts, feelings, and views are
limited to their restricted, tangible, materialistic world would not feel comfortable! Inspite of this, the
incident was real, and is quite easily explained to whoever uses sight and insight together.
After Thaabit had fallen martyr in battle, one of the Muslims who had not known Islam until
recently passed by him and saw Thaabit's precious armor on his corpse. He thought it was his right to
take it and he did.
Let the narrator of the incident narrate it himself: While one of the Muslims was asleep, Thaabit
appeared to him in his dream and said to him, "I entrust you with my will, so be careful not to say it's a
dream and waste it. When I fell martyr yesterday, a Muslim man passed by me and took my armor. His
house is on the outskirts of the town. His horse is tall. He put his pot on the armor and above the pot put
his saddle. Go to Khaalid and tell him to take it. And when you go to Al-Madiinah and meet the
successor of the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) Abu Bakr, tell him I owe so-and-so. Let him pay my loan."
When the man got up, he went to khaalid lbn Al-Waliid and related to him his dream. So Khaalid
sent someone to bring the armor, and he found it exactly as Thaabit had described it. And when the
Muslims went back to Al-Madiinah, the Muslim narrated the dream to the caliph, and he fulfilled
Thaabit's will. There is not in Islam a dead man's will that was fulfilled in that way after his death except
that of Thaabit Ibn Qais.
Truly, man is a big mystery. "Think not of those who are killed in the Way of Allah as dead. Nay,
they are alive, with their Lord, and they have provision" (3 :169).
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