.:Monday, March 07, 2005:.
Giving something up for the sake of Allah
This is something that I'm sure most people have struggled to do at least once in their life, and I know for a fact its something that I struggle with sometimes on a daily basis. A lot of times the thing is really of no importance but its just our weakness that doesn’t allow us to let go of it or stop it.. lately there was one such thing for me.. and in talking me self out of it/getting rid/over it I remembered this story that I heard a couple months ago, and I just thought subhanAllah..
A couple months ago I was at Umm AbdulQudoos's house in one of the bedrooms while her husband was in the living room talking to his mom on the phone, he was leaving that night for Newport. Because its an apartment and the rooms are so close in proximity you can pretty much hear everything in the other room without meaning to, and he wasn’t exactly talking in a low voice, so I over heard this story that he was telling his mom.
The brothers in our community, alhamdulilah, are very active in da'wah in the prisons. Every Saturday our ameer and some brothers go to one of the local prisons, give talks, and hold activities. Along with holding sending someone to give jumu'a and eid khutbas when they can. Anyways he was telling his mom how the day before he was at the prison with Amu Abu Qays and that during his talk Amu mentioned something about organ transplanting. He said that one of the inmates became very interested and started asking for more information on it, amu not seeing why it would be important to talk about this subject and seeing that other things would be of greater benefit didn’t answer him very thoroughly
After the talk and stuff that one brother took Abu AbdulQudoos aside and told him that he had hepatitis C (I think?) and that because of it his liver was failing and that he had been on a list for a liver transplant for a few years and only recently was he contacted and told that there would be one for him soon. As Abu AbdulQudoos was telling this story you could sense that he was tearing up. He want on to tell his mom how the brother, with tears in his eyes, told him "I've been waiting a long time for this, but if its against islam/haram then I wont accept it". He then asked him if he could find out more for him and get back to him, Abu AbdulQudoos promised him he would. After hanging up with his mom he was planning on calling up one of the shayookh overseas and talking it over with him, but I fell asleep before he did..
Everytime I think of this story I'm like subhanAllah.. This brother was willing to give up his life for the sake of Allah, when he very easily could have said he didn’t know any better and went on with it.. but we cant give up the small things that stand between us and Allah :(. May Allah swt make us stronger.. aameen..
chotu-meyeh
@ 3/07/2005 03:22:00 PM
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