INCENTIVE TO CONFORM FEAR THIS, THE MOST POWERFUL OF HER ADMONITIONS, WHICH IS NOT DATED, IS A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ETERNAL HORRORS TO BE FACED BY THOSE WHO DO NOT REFORM. THE POEM MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT A PERIOD OF FRUSTRATION CONCERNING THE PROGRESS OF THE COMMUNITY, FOR ITS URGENCY IS GRIPPING. ITS LENGTH IS IMPOSING (NINETY-NINE QUINTAINS), AND ITS LANGUAGE IS TERRIFYING. IT RECOUNTS A VAST ARRAY OF ETERNAL TORMENTS IN HELL, INCLUDING BEING FRIED ALIVE, FLOGGED, BLINDED, CLUBBED, STARVED, FROZEN, CHOKED, MELTED, SQUEEZED, AND FORCED TO DRINK DISGUSTING LIQUIDS. THE AIM OF THIS WORK WAS TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO PREPARE FOR DEATH, THE ULTIMATE FATE: TO ME HAS BEEN REVEALED SOMETHING TERRIFYING ABOUT DEATH. I FEAR GOD WHO CREATED ME AND GAVE ME PROSPERITY. THE RECEIVER OF BLESSINGS SHOULD THANK GOD, OTHERWISE HE WILL PERISH. I THANK THE FEARFUL ONE WHO CONTROLS INSTRUMENTS OF FEAR. WHO, WHEN HE CAUSES PEOPLE TO DIE, REMOVES THEM WITHOUT TRACE, JUST A SITE FROM WHICH NOT EVEN PALM SEEDLINGS ARE LEFT. GOD HAS TOLD US ABOUT THE CONDITIONS ATTACHED TO ENTRY INTO HEAVEN. IN BOOKS AND ELSEWHERE. SO LISTEN AND REMEMBER. ALL PEOPLE, GREAT OR SMALL, DIE. THEIR VERY EXISTENCE ON EARTH IS OBLIGERATED. THEN THEIR GRAVES ARE RENT AND ALL HUMAN BEINGS RISE AMID TERRIBLE FEAR. AS IF THE SIMPLE PROSPECT OF DEATH WERE NOT ENOUGH, ASMA’U DESCRIBES THE PARTICULAR PAINS TO BE ENDURED BY THE UNFAITHFUL: THOSE WHO HAVE REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH, THE PAGANS, ARE CONDEMNED. THE ANGELS OF DEATH TAKE THEM TO THE GATES OF HELL AND INCINERATE THEM. THEY ARE SQUEEZED AND PUSHED IN. THEY GO TO THE WELL OF THE FIRE OF HELL WHERE THEY ARE BURNED. THE FIRE ENCIRCLES THEM, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS ON EVERY SIDE FULLY ENCLOSED. THEY SEEK TO TAKE DRAFTS OF WATER BUT ARE PREVENTED BECAUSE IT IS THE AIM TO MAKE THEM THIRSTY AND TO SWEAT. THEY ARE SHOWN DISTANT FLOWING WATER, BUT THEIR DRINK IS THE PUS WHICH COMES FROM SORES, AND URINE AND FECES MIXED WITH VILE, NOXIOUS POISONS. A PERSON WHO HAS KILLED A MUSLIM IS SEIZED, BEATEN , AND THEN MELTED IN A POT. THE HEAD OF THE OPPRESSOR IS SPLIT OPEN. THOSE WHO HAVE DONE FORBIDDEN THINGS ARE CRUSHED AGAIN AND AGAIN. THATCHING NEEDLES AND CHARCOAL AWAIT WOMANIZERS, AND THORNY STICKS. AND HUGE SNAKES, WHICH ARE THRUST INTO THEIR CLOTHES. -POEM BY NANA ASMA’U, {DAUGHTER OF SHEHU UTHMAN DAN FODIYO} AND FROM THE BOOK (ONE WOMAN’S JIHAD) WRITTEN BY BEVERLY B. MACK AND JEAN BOYD THIS IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WHEN PONDERING OR CONSPIRING TO DO SOMETHING THAT WILL SEND YOU TO THE HELLFIRE. THAT FIRE IS REAL!!!
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:17:08 +0000
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