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.