The Man Who Lived 99 Lives

1. A Strange Awakening

When Kareem opened his eyes, he was not where he expected to be. He wasn’t in his small apartment, nor in the hospital where he had passed away just moments ago.

He was in a field.
Dressed in strange clothes.
Under a sky unfamiliar.
But this wasn’t new to him.
He had felt this sensation 98 times before.

Each time Kareem died, he awoke in a new era — sometimes in the past, sometimes far in the future. He always kept his memories — from the Roman Empire to the golden age of Baghdad, from war-torn cities to futuristic glass towers.

Every life, every time, he remembered.

But in every life, something was missing.


2. The Search for Meaning

Kareem had been a king, a beggar, a scientist, a poet, a thief, a soldier, even a child who died before ten. He had held swords, scrolls, and screens — but never found peace.

He lived in palaces with gold floors, yet cried himself to sleep.
He ruled over empires, but his heart felt empty.
In one life, he tried to drown the emptiness with pleasures.
In another, he chased knowledge endlessly.
In another, he became bitter and cruel — as if punishing the world would somehow quiet the questions inside him.

But nothing filled the void.

Until the 99th life.


3. The Final Life Begins

He was born in a small village. Poor. No technology, no books, no power.

But something was different.
This time, he was born into a family that prayed.
Not out of habit, but with love and awe. His mother wept in sujood. His father recited Qur’an as if he was being spoken to directly.

As a child, Kareem heard the Adhan echo through the valleys, and his heart trembled — not in fear, but in recognition.

For the first time in all his lives, he felt… anchored.


4. Questions With Answers

He asked his father, “Why do we pray?”

His father smiled, “Because we were made to remember the One who made us.”

“But how do we know He exists?”

The father replied, “Look at the sky. It changes without your command. Look at your heartbeat — it never stops unless He wills it.”
Kareem didn’t just hear these words — he understood them.
All the lives he lived, the beauty he saw, the pain he endured — all pointed to One Truth.
He had always been searching. Through crowns and coins, war and wealth.
But now he found what he wasn’t even wise enough to seek before:

La ilaha illAllah.


5. Choosing Simplicity

In this life, he rejected leadership roles. He declined fame. He kept his head down, his prayers up, and his heart clean.

He worked in the village’s bakery. He served the poor. He stayed away from sins that once seemed exciting in past lives.

People often asked, “Why are you so quiet, Kareem?”

He would just smile and say, “I’ve seen too much of the world to be impressed by it.”


6. The Night of Realization

One night, as Kareem lay in his small bed, now an old man, he whispered to the sky:

> “O Allah, I lived 98 lives trying to find happiness without You. In this one life, I lived simply — but I lived with You. This was the only one worth living.”



He felt his soul rise.
But this time, he wasn’t scared.
He had finally lived a life that mattered.


7. The True Wake-Up

Kareem did not wake up in another life this time.
He woke up… in the Hereafter.
Angels surrounded him.

He remembered every life — all 99 — and realized they were not punishment, but mercy. Each one was a chance. A warning. A path leading to the Truth.

He had found it.

And now, the journey to eternal peace had begun.


Moral Message:

Chasing the world for 98 lives can never give what one life with Allah can give.

True success is not in how long we live, but in how we live.

The heart will never rest until it rests with its Creator.