Islamic Exemplary Stories
The fire of the world and the Fire of hell
When the Prophet Adam was sent down to earth, he no longer obtained food as easily as in heaven. He had to work hard to get fruits or meat to eat. When he obtained the hunted animals and slaughtered them, it could not be eaten immediately because it was still raw and certainly not tasty. So he prayed to God that fire might be brought down for cooking.
So Allah SWT sent the Angel Gabriel asking for a little fire to the Angel Malik in hell, for the purposes of the Prophet Adam. Malik said, “O Jibril, how much do you want fire??”
Jibril said, “I want that hellfire the size of a date!!”
Malik said, “If I give the hellfire the size of a date, then the seven heavens and the entire earth will be destroyed melted due to the heat!!”
Jibril said, “Then just give me half a date!!”
Malik said again, “If I give you what you want, then the sky will not drop a drop of rain, and all the water on earth will dry up so that not a single plant lives!!”
Angel Jibril so confused, how much hell fire is ‘aman’ for life on earth?? Therefore he prayed, “Yes Allah, how much fire hell should I take for Adam's needs on earth??”
Allah says, “Take fire from hell as big as zarrah (the smallest unit, atoms)!!”
So Jibril asked Malik for fire of hell as much as Zarrah and brought him to earth. But upon his arrival on earth, Gabriel felt that the fire of the same amount of zarrah was still too hot, so he dipped (washed it) seventy times into seventy different rivers. Only then did he bring it to the Prophet Adam, and set it on a high mountain.
I can't imagine how hot the hell fire is. If the embers of the world's fire are generally red, then the embers of hell fire are dark black, like the dark black of night. The Prophet asked about the state of the fire of hell, so the Angel Gabriel said, “Surely Allah SWT created hell, then lit the fire of hell for a thousand years so that (his) was red. Then (God) kindled it (added its heat) for another thousand years so that (it) was white, and (He) kindled it (added its heat) for another thousand years so that (it) was black. Then the hell is as dark black as the black of a very dark night, never calm the fire and never extinguished (reduced) the embers of the fire!!”
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THE MERITORIOUS DONKEY
One day a donkey went to meet the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and said: "O Prophet of Allah! Allah the Greatest has added sixty to our family. Every master has ridden it, much to me that the master has not ridden. Then judge the master riding on me too. I'd rather the master take care of me than my own master."
"Why do you say that, O donkey?" ask Rasulullah. So he said: "Because my caretaker did not take care of me properly and always left me hungry."
"Who looks after you, poor donkey?" asked the Prophet. The donkey immediately replied: "Yazid bin Shahab." Since that day, the fate of the donkey has changed.
When the Prophet died, the assailant was very sad, as if reluctant to part with the prophet. The donkey then fell ill and eventually fell into a well and died.
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