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A sheikh from Saudi was making a stop at a mosque in Egypt.
He called the imam ahead of time. Told him he'd be arriving late and asked him to leave the mosque open at night. So he could come in, pray a few rakat and stay until the morning. Imam said no problem and left the door open that night.
The sheikh arrives late. He finds the masjid open and all of the lights are on. Entering he sees a man in prostration crying profusely and calling upon the Almighty in a weird way. He was saying "Ya Allah, enough". "All the doors have been closed, I've got no one but you, why have you forsaken me.".. The sheikh watches, wondering why he is speaking to the Almighty like this? Then he realizes this man is not seeking repentance, but he is in need. So the sheikh waits until the man finishes and he approaches him.
Sheikh gives the man a hug and asks him why he is making dua like this? The man replies, my wife has an operation at 9am in the morning. It costs $15, 400. and he says by God i don't have a single $1 in my pocket. He said her sickness has been developing for awhile and it has reached a point where she must have this operation.
He said he delayed the operation again and again as he went from organization to organization, charity to charity. Relative to relative and no one gave him a single $1. He said until he could no longer delay the operation anymore and he had to book it. Come this night i have been walking the streets like a mad man not knowing what to do until i found this mosque open. So i walked in and threw myself into sujood and made dua to the King.
The sheikh looked and him and said by God i have nothing to help you with. Other then to tell you to keep making dua to the Almighty. For surely he hears you and will never reject you.
So the sheikh prays a couple of rakat and goes to sleep in a corner of the mosque.
In the morning the imam gets the sheikh to lead the prayer. After the prayer he gives salaam and see's a man rushing at him from the 2nd row. This man hugs him and tells him he had just bought a unit upstairs 3 months ago and he always watches his lectures on tv. The man says when i heard your voice leading the prayer i rushed down to meet you and to speak to you because i have a question.
The man says I'm a very successful business man. I have a very large factory and i gathered my zakat a long time ago (Zakat is an annual charity where Muslims give, 2.5% of their annual earnings). He says every morning when i leave the house my wife tells me to pay my zakat and the man says, no no. I want to use it on something big. I want to use it all at once on something major.
So the sheikh asks him... how much is your zakat? How much does the man say?... $15,400.
The sheikh said he had to hold back his tears. Instead of telling him what happened he looked around for the man from the previous night. He found him in the corner of the first row, far enough away to where he couldn't have heard their conversation. He calls him forward and he says you were crying last night and you had an issue. What was your issue?
The man got agitated. All he had mentioned, all that crying and you forgot? But the sheikh was trying to get him to relate his story to the other man. So the man says, i told you my wife, she needs the operation. Its $15,400. Its in 2 ,3 hours at 9am.
As soon as he said the number the other guy with the zakat burst into tears and then they hugged one another, not even knowing each other.
What are the chances of this man walking past that mosque that time of night? That particular mosque, being open this specific night for that sheikh? ... and the person who is going to save this mans wife is in the upper floor of that building?
سبحان الله
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He called the imam ahead of time. Told him he'd be arriving late and asked him to leave the mosque open at night. So he could come in, pray a few rakat and stay until the morning. Imam said no problem and left the door open that night.
The sheikh arrives late. He finds the masjid open and all of the lights are on. Entering he sees a man in prostration crying profusely and calling upon the Almighty in a weird way. He was saying "Ya Allah, enough". "All the doors have been closed, I've got no one but you, why have you forsaken me.".. The sheikh watches, wondering why he is speaking to the Almighty like this? Then he realizes this man is not seeking repentance, but he is in need. So the sheikh waits until the man finishes and he approaches him.
Sheikh gives the man a hug and asks him why he is making dua like this? The man replies, my wife has an operation at 9am in the morning. It costs $15, 400. and he says by God i don't have a single $1 in my pocket. He said her sickness has been developing for awhile and it has reached a point where she must have this operation.
He said he delayed the operation again and again as he went from organization to organization, charity to charity. Relative to relative and no one gave him a single $1. He said until he could no longer delay the operation anymore and he had to book it. Come this night i have been walking the streets like a mad man not knowing what to do until i found this mosque open. So i walked in and threw myself into sujood and made dua to the King.
The sheikh looked and him and said by God i have nothing to help you with. Other then to tell you to keep making dua to the Almighty. For surely he hears you and will never reject you.
So the sheikh prays a couple of rakat and goes to sleep in a corner of the mosque.
In the morning the imam gets the sheikh to lead the prayer. After the prayer he gives salaam and see's a man rushing at him from the 2nd row. This man hugs him and tells him he had just bought a unit upstairs 3 months ago and he always watches his lectures on tv. The man says when i heard your voice leading the prayer i rushed down to meet you and to speak to you because i have a question.
The man says I'm a very successful business man. I have a very large factory and i gathered my zakat a long time ago (Zakat is an annual charity where Muslims give, 2.5% of their annual earnings). He says every morning when i leave the house my wife tells me to pay my zakat and the man says, no no. I want to use it on something big. I want to use it all at once on something major.
So the sheikh asks him... how much is your zakat? How much does the man say?... $15,400.
The sheikh said he had to hold back his tears. Instead of telling him what happened he looked around for the man from the previous night. He found him in the corner of the first row, far enough away to where he couldn't have heard their conversation. He calls him forward and he says you were crying last night and you had an issue. What was your issue?
The man got agitated. All he had mentioned, all that crying and you forgot? But the sheikh was trying to get him to relate his story to the other man. So the man says, i told you my wife, she needs the operation. Its $15,400. Its in 2 ,3 hours at 9am.
As soon as he said the number the other guy with the zakat burst into tears and then they hugged one another, not even knowing each other.
What are the chances of this man walking past that mosque that time of night? That particular mosque, being open this specific night for that sheikh? ... and the person who is going to save this mans wife is in the upper floor of that building?
سبحان الله
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