In the name of god the merciful

Praised be God who will judge us and will not be judged. May He bestow grace and peace upon the noble messenger, the elect, Seydina Mohamed ( may God bless and protect him ).

            I Limamou LAYE am talking to you my friends and intimates to greet you, and I pray God to bless you and your families.

            I greet you and wish you peace and prosperity in your families, neighbourhoods, business, wells, fields, clothes, tools, water, and so on. I wish you to better care for your wives, children, servants and goods in order to prevent them from making mistake, doing something injust or inflicting prejudice on others. Are you exhorting them to learn God's commandments, avoid what He prohibits and be interested in religious affairs ?

            Are you providing for their needs in food, clothing, dwelling and so on ? Are you dealing with them with patience and indulgence when they make a mistake ?

God's messenger ( may God's blessing and peace be upon him )  has said : everyman who is patient and indulgent to the bad character of his wife will receive from God the reward He gave to the Prophet Ayoba (may peace be upon him), after the trial of his illness. Ayoba was so ill that worms would creep all over his body, feeding from his flesh and blood, and this for eighteen years. Finally, God brought him back to peace and good health and covered him with wonderful satin and silk clothes and crowned him with gold .It is after he recovered that God the Almighty granted him all this out of His might, and at once.

            Similarly every woman who patiently bears with her  husband's bad character will receive from God the reward He gave Rahmata the wife of Ayoba ( may peace be upon him). Rahmata is the one who had patiently accepted the trial of Ayoba after this one had been abandoned by his other wives . She would, as women did with their children, carry Ayoba on her back throughout towns and villages. During the whole period of his illness, she would feed Ayoba with the money she would get from some spare jobs. She never lost patience or hope till God restored her husband to health and made him prosperous again; a change which took place while she had gone to town to hire her services and get what to feed Ayoba.

            When she came back, she found this one covered with honours and opulence, with his golden crown and silk clothes .She didn't recognize him. She asked him." Haven't you seen here a man overcome with grief ? " He replied  " what is the link between you and this man ? " "He is my husband " she answered. " Don't you recognize me ? " Ayoba told her.  "I suspect it is you " his wife said ". I am Ayoba, the husband said, " God the Almighty, the Merciful has restored my health ".
            Do know, o you women of the people of  Mohamed that those among you who will patiently support their husband will receive from God the reward He attributed to Rahmata the wife of Ayoba (may peace be upon him ).

            We praise God, the Sovereign of all creatures, for His deeds.

            God has said in His holy book : those who are persevering will receive a reward that will not be counted.

            I let you know that I am addressing you, calling on you the way a guide calls on his disciple. If the disciple spends the night somewhere, on the order of his guide, this one must, in the morning call on him to see how he spent the night and if he has  woken up well. Then he must tell him what to do for the day, and where to spend the day. He must equally tell him how to differentiate good actions from bad ones.

            I am calling on you as a shepherd on his flock. Indeed, the shepherd who has kept his animals in a stable and has spent the night elsewhere has in the morning to pay them a visit to see if nothing has gone wrong.

            I   call  on you to inquire about your fields here below and in  the other world, about  what is related to your life and your death. I'm watching the way you live, how you react to worries in this world, its difficulties, your projects, and how you follow God's commandments such as always being clean,(through ablutions and ritual baths), prayers and fasting.

            I'm watching how, here below, you purify yourself by constantly calling forth God's memory, reading the Qur'an frequently, formulating prayers for the prophet (Salatu ala Nabi), by advising to do Good and avoid evil,  and by meditating upon God's wonder such as the creation of heavens and earth, mountains, vegetals, seas, rivers and others.

            I am watching your prayers, the way you do them, the rapidity with which you answer the call of the muezzin and go to the mosque, what you say at the door of the mosque, the way you stand up in the rows, the way you begin prayers by asserting God's greatness, the way you humble yourself, the good execution of genuflexions, prosternations, standing up, sitting, recitations of all the phases of the prayers, and its final conclusion. And I am watching too how you call forth God's memory, how you pray for the Prophet ( may God's blessing and peace be upon him), how you implore your Lord, how you humble yourself when addressing Him, and how patient you are when waiting for His aid.

            Do know that prayers comprise every good deed, for prayers constitute the pillar of religion. Whoever values prayers honours religion,but whoever devalues them brings religion into disrepute.

            God the Almighty has said : " prayers preserve from turpitudes and bad actions ". I call on you too about your tongues, their utterrances, their silences, and about your eyes, what they see and what they refuse to look at, for God the Almighty has said  to the illustrious messenger in His holy book : " O noble Prophet, order believers to lower their eyes and protect their chastily. Order women who believe to lower their eyes, draw their veils on their breasts and not show their jewels but to their husband, father or father - in - law.

            I call on you too about your travels and rests. I recommend you to travel only for praiseworthy objectives and to abstain going out whenever that permits you to avoid doing something bad. Promote harmony and don't be destroyers of good relations.
            Watch your own shortcomings rather than those of other people. Whoever tries to reveal the vices of others runs the risk of seing his own vices publicly revealed.

            I equally call on you about the different parts of your body and about your acts. Make your deeds as beautiful as possible rather than debase them. If you think that I don't know or see ( what you do ) debase and am not near you, do know that God the Almighty knows every thing, sees everything and is near everybody. And He will pay each soul what he has done.Whoever gets happiness tomorrow must pay tribute to God for His favours, His mercy and His clemency. But whoever becomes unhappy will have to blame but himself.

            I invite you to meditate upon  moments of illness, when lying, you writhe with pain before raving and being stricken with anguish while your body is cold or hot, these moments when your only wish is to recover.

            I invite you to meditate upon the moment when the soul is extracted from the body. The process starts from the fingers, and the soul rises up to the neck. Eyes are then turned upward, hands are clenched, you get thirsty and the body becomes weak, the voice becomes fainter, the stare more intense. The soul having gone over the breast, the breast roars, the feet become cold. Meditate upon the arrival of the angel of death, the fear he inspires to those who will be damned, his stare, his high stature, the redness of his two eyes, the length of the spear he holds, the assistants who accompany him. They are big and very strong.

            I invite you to meditate upon these moments the way someone who loves can invite the loved one to do so. I watch how your soul withdraws, how your corpse is washed, how your body is lifted from the deathbed by four or six persons. Your corpse will be folded, unfolded, made supple and put on the place of the final bathing while you lie inanimate.

            I invite you to meditate upon your entering the tomb, your lying next to the tomb, the placing of planks, the cutting of the threads which maintained your death clothes, the arranging of the planks, the straw that is put over the planks, the piling up of sand on the tomb and the going back home of those who were accompanying you. You then remain in your tomb alone with your deeds. If these deeds are good ones, you become happy and will see by yourself the truth of the statement of God's messenger when he had said : << Death is the moment of rest for the pions >>. But if the deeds are bad the deceased will be stricken with sadness and anguish and he will weep, for his deeds constitute for him tortures that will last till resurrection day.

            I also invite you to meditate upon the interrogation by the two angels : Mounkar and Nakir. Both are enormous and black, with big eyes placed in a single orbit. Each of them has  a bludgeon so heavy that men and djinns put together could not move it. And this bludgeon is in their hands lighter than a bird feather. And I swear to God that these angels will be merciful only for those who benefit from God's clemency through the intercession of His holy messenger (May God bless him). These angels will make death sit aside and will question about the unicity of God and the truthfulness of Mohamed, God's messenger. If the answer is : " I attest there is no other God who deserves a cult than God the unique who has no associate and I attest that Mohamed is His servant and messenger ".

            If such is the answer the deceased  person will be put at ease, welcome, respected, honoured and loved. Then the angels will leave and he will live under God's favours till doomsday. If on the contrary he doen't attest God's unicity and the truthfulness of the mission of Mohamed, and is afraid, confused and consterned, the angels will punish him severely and beat him so intensely that the milk he had sucked from his mother's breast will pour out from his body. Then they will leave him in severe tortures that will last till resurrection day.

            I invite you to think of resurrection day, the moment you shake the sand off from your head, the moment when men will be led  to the place where they will stand up. Some will be beaten, some tied up, some transpierced with spears or with their own hands, some turned blind or dumb; some will be stricken with elephantiasis or leprosy,some will get so drunk that they could not stand up, and some will be tortured. That day is a terrible day. None will care for another one, everyone will be worried enough by his own business except the noble messenger Mohamed (may God's benediction and peace be upon him).

            I remind you of your march to the gathering place. It will be a terrible, dark and long day, a day of anxiousness. It will be the day of regrets, thirst, infamy, shame, failure and weeping, the day of encounters and separations when people will try to cheat. It is the day when vices will  be revealed, the day when men will be asked to stand behind their guides, and everyone will follow the person he believed in in this world. It is during that day that will appear the superiority of Mohamed, the best of all creatures, as well as the superiority of his saints and his people.

            I remind you of that long day of standing up, of the moment when scales will be placed. Whoever counts many good deeds will be among the blessed; he will be saved and be happy. But whoever registers a lot of bad deeds will be damned, covered with shame, and will fall into failure and blindness, for God the Almighty has said : "Those with many good deeds will be blessed, and those with few good deeds will be the only ones who will have lost themselves."

            I remind you too that books will be thrown at their owners. If your book falls on your right,you will be blessed, happy and saved. But if the book falls on your left, you will become sad and will weep (each book contains the deeds of his owner). Our Lord won't do wrong to anybody, and no one in that place could do wrong to another person.

            I remind you too of Sirƒt which is a bridge over the Gehenna the fire of which will be lighted and will burn, smoke and stretch furiously against and torture whoever willl have disobeyed our Lord, for God the Almighty has said : Gehenna will burn with force to the point of exploding.

            I swear to God that whoever falls on Sirƒt will be thrown on Gehenna, and inside its fire are snakes, scorpions, dark corners and punishments so numerous that it is impossible to  remember them all. One who has never set foot in Gehenna could try to enumerate all its punishments, but there would always be some that he would ignore.   May God preserve us from Gehenna. 

            Sirat is a bridge over Gehenna. It is thinner than a hair, sharper than a sword, hotter than glowing embers and more mobile than a snake. Its length corresponds to three thousand years of walk. And no one can enter Paradise without crossing Sirƒt.
            I remind you of your arrival in front of the lake of God's messenger. Whoever drinks water from this lake will never be thirsty any more. Whoever had preferred innovations, magic or something else to a good practice of the religion will not drink the water from this lake.

            If you want salvation, purify the way you are worshipping God for the love of God and His messenger. Be constant in these pure practice even if they are not many.

Don't mix to your religious practice, lies, swindling, debauch, innovation, magic, even magic by writing. Don't turn to people who give themselves up to these things, for you would have then fallen and become losers.

            I remind you also of your coming to the door of Paradise, the rest that will be yours from then on, the rapidity with which drinks and food will be served to you, the disappearance of any feeling of tiredness after you have eaten the liver of Bakhemaute, and the disappearance of all pains,worries, feeling of hatred, jealousy hostility. Only love and happiness will remain in your hearts.
I remind you too of your stay in Paradise, the dwelling where favours are heaped up on people, where exist wonderful and comfortable houses exist.

            I remind you of your encounter with your wives, with the girls and women of Paradise, your entering palaces and elevated beds.

            It is there that every need will be satisfied.

            Do know that I am your friend. I won't leave you till you enter Paradise.

            After remaining in Paradise for a long time, you will forget me  and forget God.

            May God's mercy be upon you . May He protect you. May He keep you in the good path.

            May God's blessing and peace be upon Mohamed, his intimates and his companions.