Yesterday the dear brother Muawiyah Al-Otaibi lost his two-year-old son Iyas in the picture. He and the child's mother …
Yesterday the dear brother Muawiyah Al-Otaibi lost his two-year-old son Iyas in the picture. He and the child's mother searched for him but didn't find him...until they found he had just drowned in a small fountain that wasn't thought capable of drowning anyone.
The father extracted his son with his hands, prostrated to Allah...the neighborhood people and acquaintances learned..they prepared the child and prayed over him then went with his father to the cemetery and buried him with the grief only Allah knows of. Abu Iyas (Muawiyah) stood at the grave preaching to people and reminding them of contentment with Allah's decree. And at dinner he led them in prayer and recited in the first rakah (And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, Who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return." Those are the ones upon whom are blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the guided), and in the second rakah: (No disaster strikes except by Allah's permission. And whoever believes in Allah - He will guide his heart. And Allah is Knowing of all things).
Some people are afflicted with less than that and they become discontent! While you see one who grew up memorizing and acting upon the Quran and Sunnah (like Abu Iyas as far as I can judge and Allah is his reckoner) be content and submit to Allah. Abu Iyas lacks neither mercy for his son nor intense love for him - he's his only male child with two daughters may my Lord protect them - you sense the love and pain of loss in his voice's trembling as you console him. But with that he knows this world is a place of trial, so he stood saying to people while preaching: (Allah gave him to me, and Allah took him). And by Allah, Allah's mercy manifests in such positions when you see how He steadies His servants and sends down contentment and tranquility upon them.
May He pour patience upon you O family of Iyas and make him firm and console your hearts and make your son a precursor for you to Paradise.