Assalamalikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatahu,
insha’allah this post finds you all in good spirits with a high iman. This is my first post on this blog after reading through some of the well writing posts here and feeling that my writing really isn’t up to as good a standard as the other contributors here. Now I feel maybe it was because I didn’t have the right feeling within me for gratefulness to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) to write about. Yes I am grateful for everything but that doesnt mean I have topics of inspiration to write about.
Alhamdulillah yesterday I got this feeling. After hearing so much about hurricane Ike in the news recently, and all those people who have been affected by probably the biggest hurricane so far this season, it was on my mind. Here in Ontario we had been told that we would be feeling the last ruminant’s of the hurricane in the form of heavy prolonged rain and winds. I was on my way to the mosque for taraweeh when the winds started, the rain had already fallen a little but not the 9 inches predicted alhamdulillah. I could feel it rattling my car as I drove down the road to the mosque that has taken me in for every problem I have encounted here in my little town. I got out and had to calm my skirt as the wind sent it flying everywhere including in my path to nearly trip me up as I walked up the steps as isha was being played over the loudspeakers in the car park. I got up there late and caught up in time to pray taraweeh from the beginning alhamdulillah and soon got into the swing of things. I have noticed that recently my posture has become bad when I have been standing for long so I have tried my best to rectify this during salah. We prayed 2, then another 2, I needed water, was beginning to feel hot, bothered and a little woozy. Then on the 6th rakah I was reminded of the people affected by the hurricane when the winds blew around and through the open window.
This is what caused me to immediately send my thanks to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) I was at that point grateful for us only getting the tail end in 2 senses of the word getting. I was grateful that we only got the tail end and nothing worse or in any way similar to those in the south of the continent. I was grateful for getting it and being shown it at a time when I needed the wind, I needed the reminder that there were worse things happening in the world than what was going on in my life.
Alhamdulillah,
thanks for reading
Ammena
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Umm Layth
A'ishah
ammena