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We Really Laugh
Hasan al-Basri (rahimaullah) was an eminent scholar and pious
individual of his time. He would rarely laugh due to his remembrance
of death and the punishment of hell. One day he was going
somewhere when he saw a young man indugled in laughter. Hasan
al-Basri asked the youth, "Young man, have you already crossed
the bridge of Sirath? Have you already found out whether you
are going to paradise or hell?" The young man replied, "No."
Hasan al-Basri told him, "Then why are you laughing so much?"
After that, no one saw this young man laughing again as he
came to know the reality of this life.
Source: Story extracted from the book "Tambihul Ghafileen"
by Shaikh Abul Laith Samarkandi.
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