ISLAMIC ARTICLES
The Mad Man
A mad man entered the Masjid, he thought about praying, but he didn’t stay, he looked around curiously. He looked at each corner carefully, and then ran out quickly.
He came back to the Masjid again, this time with the timbers tied on his back and began to perform the prayer with the people in the Masjid. But, with timbers on his back he performed his prayer with a lot of difficulty. As he sat down on the ground, the timbers fell down and the noise disturbed the people. Finally, the prayer ended, but every one started to talk about the situation and got angry. Everybody started to move, and even the Imam heard about the conversations.
The Imam lived in the same neighborhood as the mad man, he knew him more or less. He approached him tenderly and said:
“My son you cannot perform prayers with the timbers on your back, what did you do? Look, you both bothered yourself and the people around you, come again without a load, okay?”
The mad man who heard this asked:
“Isn’t this your custom?”
“What custom? the Imam said.
The people gathered, watched them curiously.
This time, the mad man said:
“I came to pray in the Masjid, I looked for a suitable place for myself,I saw that everyone had something on their back. I guessed that was a custom,I came with these timbers, so why are you mad at me? Be mad at everyone, not only at me!”
The Imam was surprised:
“Was there something on my back, too?”
“Yes”he said. “Your back was full of a heavy load!”
The people said that he was just a crazy man, they started to laugh.
The mad man stepped forward this time and shouted with an joy like a child, pointing to them one by one and said:
“Look, there was a boy with a blue eye on his back, a big apple tree on this man’s back.”
A broken door, a dish in a pot, fried chicken, a brunette woman with green eyes, an elderly mother…
Then he shook his head and with both hands and desperately said;
“There was something on everyone’s back!” he repeated.
When he said that, everyone looked at each other in surprise!
It was exactly true because someone was thinking about his child to be born in prayer, someone was thinking about his fruit tree,
one was thinking about repairing his door, the other one was thinking about the dinner to cook in the restaurant. One was hungry, he was thinking about the chicken. One was thinking about the woman he loved and the other one was thinking about his mother who was in need of care.
“So tell me what did I have? the Imam said anxiously this time.
He said:
“I am most surprised at you! There was a big cow on your back!”
Because the Imam’s cow was sick, he thought during the prayer that “Will it live or die?”
Don’t underestimate the crazy or insane or mad person; they know what we do not know, they see what we don’t see and they hear what we don’t hear. They see the world with their hearts.
ISLAMIC ARTICLES
The Greatest Deception
The Greatest Deception
We came as economic migrants leaving behind our kith and kin, fertile soils, fresh air, the calling of the Adhan, the scent of the fire burning at dawn on the foothills of the mountains and the swirling of the river waters. We survived on meagre means, huddled together in 10’s and 20’s, one elder took care of the entire tribe, family with little means. The reliance, trust, emaan, faith, belief, hope, fear, love, care, need was solely attributed to our Creator, The Most Merciful, The Most Compassionate.
We buried our heads in the sand and the great deception began, whispers, whispers, and more whispers, he started his work and successfully did what he set out from the moment he was given time till the end of time to stir his whispers. What’s his end game? – to lead all those who deny the Creator to a blaze of torment and an eternal damnation.
We lost our identity, our language, our clothing, our food, our respect, our honour, our traditions, our philosophy. From meagre means to lavish, house, car, bank account, from 20 sharing, to only 2 sharing, from opening the door to those in need to slamming the door, from having deep embedded relationships to highly dysfunctional families, communities and bitter tastes in mouths that could not be satisfied.
Yet, the Creator is closer to his Creation for every breath that his Creation takes, but the Created forgot the Creator, at every junction, at every crossroad, at every point of no return, the Creator safe-guarded and protected those who turned to him and bowed in complete and utter submission.
Fajr – 20 to 30, Dhur – 30 to 40, Asr – 30 to 40, Magreb – 40 to 50, Isha – 30 to 40,
Jumah – 1000+
This is the greatest deception, mankind turned away from his Creator and became reliant upon the illusion of the world, yet the greatest command to be ever given was to Submit and bow our heads in humility.
With which face will we face our Creator on the day of Reckoning, with which face will we recognise our Holy and Blessed Prophet?
ISLAMIC ARTICLES
The Meaning Of Waseela
The Meaning Of Waseela
I got goosebumps. Let me tell you about it…
3 days ago, a friend of mine told me that they are looking for someone to make the food and tea for 10 people in a factory. He told me that I know a lot of people and if any one of them was looking for a job, he asked me to forward him to them.
I just ignored it, I even thought why would I care to bother.
My daughter’s teacher just called. She told me “There’s a child that is an earthquake victim, they lost everything they had, the mother and her three children were left alone in a difficult situation, the woman’s family told her to give the children to the dormitory and come back, the woman can only make food and tea because her one arm was injured during the earthquake, you know a lot of people, keep that in mind.” I can’t describe the state of shock I felt at that moment…
We immediately organized a meeting and got the job done. My Allah will make me the intermediary for the sustenance of those 3 children…
Anyone who doubts His greatness will turn into a stone…
Abu Mas’ud ‘Uqbah bin ‘Amr Al-Ansari Al-Badri (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Whoever guides someone to virtue will be rewarded equivalent to him who practices that good action”.
[Muslim].
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