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The Road to Dubai
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02/14/02 at 00:06:16
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This was sent to me by a friend. SubhanAllah the depth of this poem...strikes the heart with full intensity, Masha'Allah.

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Betul


 THE ROAD TO DUBAI

 
 On the road to Dubai, my husband stopped at a small
 masjid to make the
 asr prayer. As I sat in the car, I saw a figure
 approaching from
 the direction of a small group of houses. It took
 some time before
 I realized it was a man, crawling toward the masjid.
 
 He wore rubber sandals on his hands. His lower body
 dragged on
 the hard, rocky ground. The 110-degree temperatures
 had beaten sweat
 out of his entire body. By the time he reached the
 masjid courtyard I could
 see he was soaked and his face was flushed.
 
 Many men passed him on their way to the prayer,
 perhaps accustomed
 to seeing him. One man came out of a shop and watched
 him for awhile.
 He went back into the shop and came out with a cold
 drink. He opened
 it for the crawling man and they sat together for a
 minute. I heard
 them talking, the one man offering to help the man and
 the other insisting
 he could make it up the stairs to the masjid. He was
 concerned about
 making it on time, so he excused himself and continued
 his slow, labored
 journey to the prayer.
 
 I did not watch him as he mounted the stairs. I could
 not imagine
 how to help him. I was crying by then, remembering
 the hadith of
 the Prophet (pbuh): "The hypocrites find fajr and
 isha prayers in
 congregation very oppressive. If they could know the
 virtues of these
 two prayers, they would certainly join them, even if
 they had to go
 crawling." (Bukhari, Muslim)
 
 This man, who literally did crawl even in the heat of
 the day,
 did not find the congregational prayer oppressive at
 all. May Allah
 reward all who struggle to please Him and may He
 always remind us of our
 own weaknesses through such people.


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