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| This is alaulaualauala who needs a $100,000 for a rare surgery to help her see properly, in the upcoming months I hope inshAllah to work on a huge campaign to raise this money! |
How cool, just as I was about to write this post or was thinking about it, on my Arabic Dish TV, there is a documentary in English about poverty and economics, and the first part I saw was about poor neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and I was going to write my whole life changed and how I view poverty has changed and how I have a greater duty to take care of those who need me, a greater feeling of accountability. This is how you make shukr as Dr Islam El Fahymoui spent weeks talking about the topic of gratitude and Shukr and how you appreciate a blessing Allah provided you with through helping others.
This documentary is SO ON POINT lol wow , I hope I can find out what its called
Anyways,
The past couple of days changed the way I view poverty, my ummah, and once again Allah, this documentary is addressing everything I just learned in this experience about poverty. Honestly I never dealt closely with anyone who had a serious financial problem, most the people I am around are doing great finically alhumdAllah, while some are very well off mashAllah others are in the middle, but all are living great alhumdAllah. This experience also taught me that I have to be very caerful with which man I choose for marriage, I cant imagine raising children without the support of a husband, weather its financial support or just arm support because I will tell you those twins were HEAVY. May Allah increase the pyhiscal and emotional strength of the struggling mothers
I always meet.
I always meet.
This past weekend Allah tested me and my local community. A young convert divorced sister I know (I don't really know her that well , I just know her as the mother of the adorable twins, mashAllah) was put into a difficult situation, honestly I think her situation is a combo of the story Surat Yusuf in which Prophet Yusuf was going through a hard time but he had sabrun jamil (beautiful patience) and Surat Al Qasas in which Prophet Musas mother was seaperted from her son but soon after Allah brought him back to her. That was how I saw her situation, I saw it as a "kashf" as Dr.Elfahymoui taught us in which Allah tests the Messengers through hardships to reveal (kasf) how they will react since the Messengers did not sin much. And although one may think this is only her test, and her hardship, wrong, I think this experience was a community kasfh to see how we would react, how patient would we be? Did we pass this test?
I wana say JazkAllah to those who did help weather you helped raise money, pushed people to raise money, or the mothers who helped take care of twinses, and the partial blind 2 year old for a couple of nights until our community was finally able to get the money alhumdAllah. Some people doubted us, they didn't think we would get her out before Friday, but we never doubted Allah. Allahs promises are always true, and He always finds a way to show off His Miracles, His Signs and Examples of His Names, His words in the Quran, through experiences we never expect to learn from.
He can show us His Greatest Signs of Mercy through moments of hardship. Allah separated this mother from her children for about three nights, but He placed a feeling of trust and peace within her heart as He assured her that she would be reunited with her children. She believed in Allah, she placed her trust in Him, just as Prophet Musas mother did when she was separated from her new born, Allah tells us in Surat Al Qasas:
And the heart of Moses' mother became empty [of all else]. She was about to disclose [the matter concerning] him had We not bound fast her heart that she would be of the believers.
About two months ago I was able to take a course at NYU about the tafsir of Surat Al Qasas.
throughout this experience I keept thinking of Surat Al Qasas . Honestly, the story within this Surah which is very relevant and similar to everything that happened recently brought me hope and trust in Allah when I was disappointed and in tears at the comments, reactions, and lack of help from the people. Me and my friend, were saying how we felt like beggers, it was the most humiliating experience ever, walking around with a baby seeking money.
It was the following aya, that gave me greater hope that ALLAH will reunite the mother with her children, why not, Allah said HIS PROMISE is true.
So We restored him to his mother that she might be content and not grieve and that she would know that the promise of Allah is true. But most of the people do not know.
I can talk and talk about this experience, but our work here is not done at all. There is still so much we need to do to help our neighbor, we need to bring her back to our neighborhood. She is not living in a good area right now, a different state in fact, and yesterday when she was going back home finally with her kids, I was worried, mentally it did not feel okay to let her go back to square one, a lonely place with no support. I thought I was going to sleep in peace again knowing that she is finally home with her kids, but yesterday I stillllll couldn't sleep without having some werid nightmares of the babies. I keep and will keep thinking about them until our community gets together to help bring her back to a safer neighborhood with the full care and attention her family needs. I don't have LOTS of hope in my community, but I have lots of hope that Allah will show us His Light once again, He will show us His Promise, He will show us that
"Verily with hardship is ease".
Have you ever wondered why Allah said this aya twice within the same Surah, right after each other? He is ASSURING us that its true, that you will experience some type of unexpected ease in your hardship as you seek Him for help, as you place your trust in Him, just do your part , yes you gota do your part which requires hard work sometimes, but don't worry Allah will also do His part, He will take care of you inshAllah.
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