Sufi parable from Sanaya People often forget that life is fleeting and can end at any moment.
We must remember Noah, who by the grace of the Lord survived the global flood, who, when he was nine hundred and fifty years old, remarked with a sigh:
- Lord, how short life is! No sooner is a person born than he already has to die!
The sage Lukman constantly remembered these words of Noah. He lived in a dilapidated shack, and when they asked him why he didn’t fix it, he answered:
- For someone who has to die, and this is too good!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru