Ali Ataie – The Drunk Man Who Was A Man Of Heaven

			There was a certain man in a certain
		

			city who was the town drunk and everyone
		

			knew he was a drunk. Open fasihq and
		

			this man died and the people of the
		

			town refused to have him buried in their
		

			cemetery.
		

			So this poor man's wife, she took her
		

			husband's body and dragged it out to the
		

			desert and now she's digging the grave
		

			for her husband. As this is happening, an
		

			Arif Bilhah,
		

			a Gnostic is walking by and he sees
		

			the scene and immediately he rushes down and
		

			helps her and digs the hole and places
		

			her husband in the in the hole and
		

			buries him and prays Janaza over his body.
		

			And then the wife says, do you know
		

			who this husband of mine was? He was
		

			the town drunk. He said, I don't know
		

			about that. But what I do know is
		

			last night I had a dream and a
		

			voice told me that tomorrow you're going to
		

			be walking in the desert. You're going to
		

			see a woman trying to bury her husband.
		

			Help her. Her husband is a man of
		

			Jannah. Her husband is a man of paradise.
		

			So that's what I did. And then he
		

			left and the people of the town caught
		

			up with him. And they said to him,
		

			Do you know who that man was? Why
		

			did you help him? He said, I don't
		

			know. And he told them
		

			the story again. And then the people of
		

			the town approached
		

			this man's wife. And they said,
		

			How can this man be a man of
		

			jannah? Can you think of anything he used
		

			to do? And she said, I can think
		

			of 3 things.
		

			He was never devoid of 2 or 3
		

			orphans. That he cared for more than his
		

			own children.
		

			In the morning when he would wake up
		

			from his wine, he would go take a
		

			shower, make hussul, and then he would go
		

			pray salatul fajr in jama'ah, in congregation
		

			in the masjid.
		

			And when he would come home at night
		

			from his wine, he would go to a
		

			certain part of our house. He would fall
		

			on his knees and raise his hands to
		

			the heavens and say, Oh God, which corner
		

			of * are you going to fill with
		

			this wretched servant of yours? And he would
		

			make tawba to Allah Subhanahu
		

			wa ta'ala.