.:Monday, January 03, 2005:.
SubhanAllah..
As is known I was supposed to go to Hajj with my uncle this year but things didn’t work out. The way the trip was set was we were going to go to a few countries in south-east Asia first since my uncle had things to do there and then Hajj and possibly go to Egypt and UAE. Well he had to leave early and I didn’t get to go. This past week when the Tsunami hit my uncle was in southeast asia, we had no idea what country he was in really we just knew he was in one of the countries that got hit. No matter how we tried to get a hold of him we couldn’t. His cell wasn’t receiving, his home phone in San Diego wasn’t connecting for some 'ajeeb reason, and we had no idea what country so it was kinda hard to get a hold of him. This was like a few days after the tsunami.
Wednesday night my dad comes home and he asks "did you get ahold of Monier?" my mom said no. Having had a bad day at work and then this my dad was really ermm agitated? As soon as we finished eating he asks if we called San Diego and we said ya and he said what did they say and we told him that it kept saying our number was blocked so the call wouldn’t go through, our number isn’t a blocked number so he thought we dialed wrong or something and I was like trust me baba I even did the *867 code to unblock and it wouldn’t their phone is screwed. He decides to try anyway and gets the same message. Then he gets this idea and tells me to find the Masjid number so he calls that and a brother answers the phone and he goes "Assalaamu'alaikum I'm so and so, Moniers brother in law calling from Oregon, have you heard from him?" and the brother, Salim, is like "subhanAllah I'm sitting here trying to get ahold of Monier myself" and he tells my dad that my uncle called left him a message with a number in it and told him he was ok, so he gives my dad the number and they decide whoever gets ahold of him first will contact the other, oh ya the brother told my dad the number khaloo gave him wasn’t working lol.
The country code on the number was 64 so I looked it up and that’s New Zealand so we were all like whatttt he's not going there, but my dad tries anyways. lol he was using the regular phone without a card so I was like "baba you know how much that’s going to cost?" and he was like "I guess we'll find out when the bill comes" and I told him he was crazy and that he should buy a card, he told me to shut up. Anyways he keeps trying, changing numbers, adding numbers, switching numbers and its not going through, in the middle of this the phone rings my dad thinks its 'amu Salim so he picks up and it was my uncle. So they talk then my mom talks to him and stuff. He said he was in Thailand right in the middle of it. He said how he just stood there and that the person on his left and right died but subhanAllah somehow he didn’t even get hurt! Said it was hella scary and it was just so amazing to see the qudra of Allah swt.
That night me and my mom weren’t really talking, couse she was so stressed and me not being in the best of moods we got into one of the biggest fights we've ever gotten into, but the next day she told me "subhanAllah, you know you could have been the person standing next to khalu?" and I was just like "subhanAllah". I was so mad that I didn’t get to go, but Allahu 'aalam if I had gone would I have returned?
chotu-meyeh
@ 1/03/2005 11:16:00 AM
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