A thought-provoking account of the consequences of arrogance: the story of a village headman who was dishonored after death

In religious teachings, the barzakh is described as the realm where a person's intentions and inner traits become manifest and take form, a world in which the reality of certain worldly actions is revealed. Accounts reported from religious scholars sometimes describe the fate of people's deeds, with the aim of drawing moral lessons and highlighting the ethical consequences of behavior.

Purgatory has been introduced in religious teachings as the field of emergence and embodiment of human intentions and carnal possessions; A world in which the truth of some worldly behavior is revealed. In the stories narrated by religious scholars, sometimes narratives of the end of human actions are told, the purpose of narrating them is to teach a lesson and pay attention to the moral consequences of behavior.

According to the Missionary Thought and Culture Base, in a story narrated by Ayatollah Haj Agha Rahim Arbab, the fate of the arrogant Kadkhodai is the basis of a moral narrative about the instability of power and worldly position; The story in which this person's skull falls out of the grave and children play with it is narrated as a warning about the consequences of arrogance.

One of these stories is the story of a skull that fell out of a grave and children were playing with it; The incident which is attributed to the arrogance and self-conceit of the owner of the grave.

The late Hojjat-ul-Islam wal-Muslimin Dibaji has narrated from the late Ayatollah Haj-Agha Rahim Arbab that some of his friends and acquaintances have narrated such a story:

In a cemetery, a person's skull had fallen out of the grave and children were throwing it here and there. A person who witnessed this scene stopped the children from doing this, took the skull from them and buried it again.

At night, in his dream, he saw a person thanking him and said: "I was arrogant and arrogant, and it was my arrogance that caused me to be disrespected by children."

Regardless of how to evaluate its details, this story has a moral message about the instability of power and social status; That worldly status and influence are not permanent and pride and self-conceit cannot bring eternal honor to man.