The Best Planner
Creator: Muhammad Alshareef
Date: 2008-02-15
Format: text
Identifier: http://www.khutbah.com/en/ramadan_hajj/planner.php
Language: en
Subject: ramadhan
Title: The Best Planner
Created on: Tue Jan 29 11:03:28 -0500 2008
Updated on: Fri Feb 15 15:34:39 -0500 2008
Version: 3
Abstract: ... arn on our journey - lessons of patience, compassion, and humility. Every corner you turn, or any spot you can find to sit, has the potential to mold a Hajji for better or worse. Sharing our experiences with each other helps us reflect on what we have learned, and may also have the invaluable effect of encouraging our fellow Muslims to perform Hajj. Here's a story from my Hajj, which truly showed me that Allah is the best of planners: During one Hajj a man in our group became very ill while we were staying in the tent city of Mina. As we sat down to dinner he began shivering uncontrollably. We stopped our dinner and made du’a for him. Soon, paramedics were called and carried him to the hospital on a stretcher. The morning after he returned from the hospital, I went to sit with him in the tent. He told me he was afraid he would be unable to perform his tawaf at the end of his Hajj, and asked my advice on what to do about that. I told him, “No problem; Allah does not place a burden upon you more then you can bear. However, you'll be required to sacrifice a sheep to be given to the poor, as a means of fulfilling that tawaf duty.” He asked me to arrange the sacrifice and gave me the payment of $100 US and 400 Saudi riyals for him and his wife. I promised him I would take care of it. A few hours later, I checked my pocket to make sure the money was still safely there. It wasn't! I couldn't believe it - I lost the guy's money! Fiqh questions raced through m... [Full Article...]
