Abu Bakar and the Fear of ALLAH

Hazrat Abu Bakar and His Fear for ALLAH 

According to our belief Abu Bakar (R.A) is the most exalted person after the prophets (may peace be on all of them) The Prophet (PBUH) himself conveyed to him the glad tiding of his being the head of a group of noble persons in paradise. The prophet (S.A.W) once remarked :

" Abu Bakar name shall be called out from all the gates of paradise and he will be the first of my followers to enter it. "

With all these virtues and privileges, Abu Bakar used to say :
" I wish  I were a tree that would be cut and done with. "

Some times he would say :
" I wish I were a blade of grass whose a hair on the body of a Muslims. "

He  also said :
" I wish I were a hair on the body of a Momin. "


Once he went to a garden where he saw a bird singing. He sighed deeply and said :

" O, bird ! How lucky you are ! You eat, you drink and fly under the shade of the tress and you fear no reckoning of the day of judgement. I wish I were just like you. " 

Rabiah Aslami (Radhiallaho anho) narrates:

" Once I had some argument with Abu Bakar during which he uttered a word which I did not like. He realized it immediately and said to me ' Brother you say that word back to me in retaliation.' Refused to do so. He persisted, and even spoke of referring the matter to the Prophet (PBUH), but i did not agree to utter that word. He got up and left me. A few people of my clan remarked, ' Look ! How strange ! The person does wrong to you and on the top of that he threatens to complain to the Prophet (PBUH).' I said, ' DO you know who he is. He is Abu Bakar. To displease him is to displease the prophet  and to displease the prophet is to displease Allah and if Allah is displease than who can save Rabiah from ruin ?' I want to the prophet and narrated the whole refusing to utter that word. But you could have said this much in retaliation : 'O Abu Bakar : May Allah forgive you. "

Look at the fear of Allah in Abu Bakar ! He is so anxious to clean his accounts in the world that no sooner has a slightly unpleasant word been addressed by him to a person than he regrets and requests him to say that word hack to him in retaliation. He is so particular of this that he threatens to have the retaliation done through the intervention of the prophet (S.A.W). We are in the habit of saying offensives word to others but we fear neither the retaliation nor the reckoning in the hereafter.