up. She was bent like a bow. Her legs were tied with her hair and many small strange creatures were stuck to her body.
This terrifying sight made us speechless. We threw the soil back over her grave however possible and ran away without retrieving the bag. When I got home, I asked my relatives about what sin she had committed. They told me that she did nothing which was considered outrageous these days, however, just like other girls she was fashionable and did not observe veil. Just a few days before her death, she attended a wedding just like other women, unveiled with a fancy haircut and fashionable clothes.
Ay mayrī beĥno! Sadā pardaĥ karo
Tum galī kūchaun mayn mat pĥirtī raĥo
Warnaĥ sun lo qabr mayn jab jāo gī
Sānp bichcĥū daykĥ ker chillāo gī
O my sisters! Always remain veiled
Do not wander in streets and alleys
Or else listen when you enter your graves
You will scream when you see snakes and scorpions
Those Islamic sisters who get influenced by the devil make excuses such as ‘I’m forced not to wear a veil, no one wears a veil in our house, I have to consider family customs, our entire family is well-educated, no one is prepared to marry their son off to a simple girl who wears a veil’ etc. Will such sisters not learn a lesson after reading this unfortunate fashionable girl’s horrifying incident? Will family customs, traditions and the excuses of your Nafs save you from the punishment of the grave and Hell? Will you succeed in saving yourself with these ‘pathetic excuses’ in the court of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ? If