"When my Lord asks me:"

"When my Lord asks me:"

One of the students of Imam Ahmad asked him 'O Abu Abdullah, what is your view about these odes which mention Paradise and Hell?' He asked, 'Like what?' He said, 'They say:

When my Lord asks me:
Are you not ashamed to disobey Me?
You hide your sins from My creation,
Yet with sins come you to Me!'

Ahmad said, 'Read it to me again,' so he did. Then Ahmad stood up and went into his house and closed the door behind him. The student said, 'I could hear him from inside the house weeping, as he recited:

When my Lord asks me:
Are you not ashamed to disobey Me?

You hide your sins from My creation,
Yet with sins come you to Me.'


P.205 of the Munaqib of Imam Ahmad by Ibn al-Jawzi

Has not the time yet come for those who believe
that their hearts should be humble for the remembrance of Allah and what has come down of the truth?
[57:16]