The Dialogue of Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz (Rahimahullah) with a Grave:

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Once, you went to a cemetery with the funeral procession of a relative. Upon reaching the graveyard, you went and sat alone in a secluded corner and began to ponder deeply. Someone submitted, "O Commander of the Faithful (Amir al-Mu'minin)! You were the guardian of this funeral, yet you have sat apart?" He replied, "Yes! A grave called out to me and said: 'O Umar bin Abdul Aziz! Why do you not ask me what treatment I mete out to those who come inside me?' I said, 'Do tell me.'"

It said: "When they enter inside me, I tear away their shroud (kafan), I shred their body into pieces, I suck out all the blood, and I consume the flesh. And shall I tell you what I do to the joints of a man? I separate the shoulders from the arms, the arms from the wrists, the hips from the body, the thighs from the hips, the knees from the thighs, the shins from the knees, and the feet from the shins."

Saying this, Hadhrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz (Rahimahullah) began to weep and said: "The stay in this world is very brief, and its deception is immense. He who is honored in it is humiliated in the Hereafter, he who is wealthy in it is a pauper in the Hereafter, and its youth will turn old very soon." (Al-Aaqibah fi Dhikr al-Mawt - Al-Ishbili, p. 191)

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Book: Mawt ki Tayyari (Preparation for Death)

Page No: 61

Author: Hadhrat Maulana Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi