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| Halima |
| 04/03/03 at 08:49:46 |
| audhu bil-Lahi min ash-shaytan ar-Rajeem Bismillah hir-Rahman ar-Raheem was-salaat was-Salaam 'ala Sayydina Muhammad wa 'ala Alihi wa Sahbihi wa sallim THE ROAD TO DUBAI By Um Yaqoob 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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| jannah |
| 04/03/03 at 13:50:00 |
| Subhanallah. May Allah reward him. I knew of many such people in Syria who despite so many problems and age etc would never miss going to the Masjid to pray. What struck me as odd: [quote]my husband stopped at a small masjid to make the asr prayer. As I sat in the car, [/quote] |
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| Kathy |
| 04/03/03 at 13:55:54 |
| [slm] Maybe she "couldn't" pray and just went for the ride. |
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| jannah |
| 04/03/03 at 14:41:29 |
| [wlm] Ahhhh good point... however i've seen this done in too many places to mention..and i *know* they could pray lol kinda sad. |
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| theOriginal |
| 04/04/03 at 01:46:46 |
| [slm] Maybe it was such a SMALL masjid that there was no female section. Or maybe she had 4 small kids in the car who were asleep, and didn't want to wake them up. Or maybe the sweltering heat had given her a heat stroke, and she was too sick to go in. Or maybe....okay heheh ... i'll stop :) Nice story :) |
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| Musafir |
| 04/05/03 at 02:05:17 |
| [slm] there are many roads in Dubai which are "Miss-leading " I myself live in UAE but when ever i visit Dubai i find it hard to find a Masjid & probably thats why he was crawling as he was tired in search for Allah's house. last thing a person could find is Masjid. rest one can get as many Miss-leading & leaders, bars, nightclubs & SHk. Mohammed's BIG plans for Dubai 2020 ???, where Iraq was being bombed and inocent lives were being lost, Dubai was busy holding World Richest Horse Race (M-east Biggest Gambling Ground) , and guess who took the cup & Big money ?? all this i have written because i did not like Dubai's name being posted in Jannah - its like having a public toilet in your house ;) Allhumdullah the story was a good one. take care (of Raod to Dubai) [wlm] |
| 04/05/03 at 03:12:47 |
| Musafir |
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| Ameeraana |
| 04/05/03 at 09:29:35 |
| [slm] Speaking of Dubai, I am moving there inshallah when I get married. I am going to visit my fiancee's family in September and to see the country for myself. I was so excited to get to move to an Islamic country but even my fiancee told me I'm going to be disappointed when I go. The more I learn I just know I am going to see too many contradictions of Islam all around me. I will still go, of course, but I am a bit disappointed already. He has been telling me about all this stuff going on over there. Inshallah we will get by without getting sucked into all of the greed over there. I am just worried about raising children there and my children going along with it... Ahhh, but then again I would be worried raising children here in the US too. All that freedom and wealth and there are Muslims who are starving and dying and being oppressed? Sad Ameera |
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| panjul |
| 04/05/03 at 12:52:23 |
| [slm] When i was in dubai visiting my sister-in-law, we stoped at a beatiful little masjid and i commented on how nice it was. so my brother-in-law tells me a little story about it. Right across from the masjid is a club, where drinking and gambling goes on, the Imam of the masjid in a khutba denounced it. he also said the noticed that some of the brothers that he sees going into the club also drop in for Jumah, he said that was very wrong and how can you reconcile both? Well, before long the police came and arrested him and took him to jail for a month. He was let out with the warning that next time they won't be so nice, that he should lead the prayers and that's it. He doen'st need to worry about wether people drink and gamble, that's their sin and not his. "Well, then what happened?," I asked my brother-in-law. "Nothing, he never spoke out against it again." Sad isn't it? I never, ever, ever want to live in Dubai or any other Arab country. Poor Imam, you can't really blame them. They have families to worry about too. |
| 04/05/03 at 12:53:59 |
| panjul |
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| jaihoon |
| 04/05/03 at 12:58:45 |
| "The Grand Pope in the church speaks his heart out while the mulla in the masjid keeps his lips sealed with the official, but beneficial, tape. The life of freedom and liberty were the ideals fostered by our own deen. That Peaceful Warrior came with the message of 'The Peace', to eliminate man's soul and body from the bondage of man. But where remains such free air to breathe on the lands he walked..." - jaihoon :( |
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| Tesseract |
| 04/08/03 at 03:07:32 |
| Assalamu 'alaikum, [quote]I myself live in UAE but when ever i visit Dubai i find it hard to find a Masjid & probably thats why he was crawling as he was tired in search for Allah's house. last thing a person could find is Masjid. [/quote] I totally DISagree. I have lived in Dubai for more than 14 years. Last time I visited Dubai was in March, 2001 on my way to US. Dubai has more than enough masaajid, people not visiting the mosques and not knowing about their locations anymore is a different thing, but I used to hear athan from 4 to 5 different mosques at a time where we used to live. But I agree that there are much more clubs and hotels now than ever. Wassalam. |
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| Maliha |
| 04/08/03 at 13:53:01 |
| [slm] Panjul I don't get it. I guess I see your point of view, but how can we reconcile living in the US knowing the terrors that this country is putting our brothers/sisters through and denounce living in an "islamic" country...no matter how "un Islamic" they may come off, they can never measure up to the amount of filth, that exists in western countries. Not only that, the illusion of freedom is fast dissipating in the US especially, when everyone is closely monitored, statements distorted, and people detained, tortured, and deported for doing something as noble as sending money to needy people abroad. We tend to hold our countries to high standards, which is understandable, but we need to hold the same measuring yardstick to the very countries we are so comfortable in. Although some of these countries may have Un Islamic tendencies on the whole, there are so many tangible benefits of being there. The visible masajids and audible adhans, children growing up in an environment where they don't have to be "different" or ashamed to be Muslim, the ample sources of knowledge from Shuyukhs, *good* compassionate neighbors (i miss the communal feeling of living in an Islamic environment), etc etc. We tend to take for granted living in the cold grasps of the US, but there are so many intangible benefits of being in an Islamic society, that are too numerous to recount. Sis-will-move-abroad-soonest :-) Maliha [wlm] |
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| Musafir |
| 04/09/03 at 00:43:17 |
| [slm] I live in Sharjah (The Cultural capital of Arab World) www.sharjah-welcome.com www.sharjah.ac.ae www.sharjahcommercetourism.gov.ae www.aus.ac.ae/about/different.htm & not in Dubai (If it is Dubai its is Possible -even Haram ) [wlm] |
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| BroHanif |
| 04/09/03 at 02:19:14 |
| Salaams, [quote]When i was in dubai visiting my sister-in-law, we stoped at a beatiful little masjid and i commented on how nice it was. so my brother-in-law tells me a little story about it. Right across from the masjid is a club, where drinking and gambling goes on, the Imam of the masjid in a khutba denounced it. he also said the noticed that some of the brothers that he sees going into the club also drop in for Jumah, he said that was very wrong and how can you reconcile both? Well, before long the police came and arrested him and took him to jail for a month. He was let out with the warning that next time they won't be so nice, that he should lead the prayers and that's it. He doen'st need to worry about wether people drink and gamble, that's their sin and not his. "Well, then what happened?," I asked my brother-in-law. "Nothing, he never spoke out against it again." Sad isn't it? I never, ever, ever want to live in Dubai or any other Arab country. Poor Imam, you can't really blame them. They have families to worry about too. [/quote] So your saying that if we had real respect of values and freedom of speech then that would be better. People would not get arrested if they say that they don't like the government nor are they corrupted and have some sense of decency and common values. I wish Opeartion Enduring Freedom starts in all the Mid East countries as the people can then have their own leaders not bastards, freedom of speech and free of wicked police/politicians who are close on the call to hypocrisy. May Allah give hidaya to those people or rain silver bombs on them if they reject the laws of Allah and the Sunnah of the prophet [saw]. Salaams Hanif |
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| panjul |
| 04/09/03 at 03:12:42 |
| [slm] Hey, when you said shajarah is the cultural captial of the arab world, it made me realize that i visited pretty mosques, went to the bazaars but didn't try arab food!! My in-laws took me to desi and chinese places to eat out. >:( I'm sooooo mad at myself... i mean the first thing one does is when they go to a foreign place is try their food. ::) |
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