The Man and the Snake – Nice Story
The Man and the Snake
A man returns home from his shop on a
winter night and finds his wife and children sitting in the veranda. He
asks them surprizingly, “why are you sitting in the veranda in this cold
weather?” His wife replies, a long black snake has entered the room in
the evening.
The man then enters the room with a big
stick and searches everywhere for the snake, but couldn’t find it. The
wife says, I have seen the snake entering the room with my own eyes, and
the children bear witness to it.
Upon hearing this, the man enters the
room again and takes out everything from the room until the room is
completely empty. Then he searches everything thoroughly and keeps it
back in the room one by one, but still there is no sign of any snake.
He consoles his wife and children saying that the snake might have left the house from this drain and you might not have seen it go out. Hearing this, their fear is curtailed and they enter the room.
He consoles his wife and children saying that the snake might have left the house from this drain and you might not have seen it go out. Hearing this, their fear is curtailed and they enter the room.
Now they have their dinner as usual and
prepare to sleep. The man sits on his bed and starts checking his shop’s
account. Suddenly he sees his shirt which was hanging on the wall
moving slightly even though the fan is off due to cold and doors and
windows are tightly shut. He thinks that the snake is hiding behind the
shirt. Terrified, the man takes a stick and touches his shirt. Then he
shakes it vigorously with the stick, but there is no snake. He picks up
the shirt and hangs it inside the cupboard and returns to his bed.
Now he feels he is not interested in the
shop’s account. So he switches the lights off and lies on his bed. He
alone was awake in the house and everyone else had slept already.
Suddenly the empty cup on the cupboard falls down on the floor. He again
imagines the snake curled on top of the cupboard. He switches on the
light while sitting on the bed itself. Then stands on his place and
looks at the cupboard.
Once again he takes up courage and
searches the room for the snake, but to no avail. Tired, he lies down
again for sleeping without switching off the light this time.
To his astonishment, whenever he closes
his eyes, he sees a long black snake in front of him. He opens his eyes
out of fear. He spends his whole night turning from one side to other
and could not sleep due to the fear of the snake…
His wife had informed him of a snake
entering the room due to which he searched the room thrice but couldn’t
find any trace of a snake. His wife might have lied to him, and used to
lie at him sometimes. But believing in her report, he scanned the room
thrice and could not sleep due to fear. Any small sound would make his
hairs stand on their ends.
But the most truthful of all, our Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam has seen with his own eyes and informed us
of various stages in the Hereafter. Let alone Jannat, Jahannum, Sirat,
the Day of Resurrection, the Punishment of the Grave, etc and let alone
the Power of Allah, His hidden Treasure, and His hidden System (of
governing everything), if we only take the report that every human has
two angels (Kiraman Katibeen) on their shoulders who record each and
every deed; how many of our nights were spent sleepless due to the fear
of these Kiraaman Kaatibeen(Angels appointed by Allah for recording our bad and good deeds)?
Just due to the report of his wife seeing
a snake he spent his whole night in fear, how many nights have we spent
in fear due to these angels informed by our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
wa Sallam? Let alone spending sleepless nights, how many times did we
ever think of these angels continously monitoring us and our hairs have
stood on their ends?