A young man had been to Wednesday Night Class of Quranic Studies.
The Mualim had shared about listening to Allah and obeying Allah
through intuition.
The young man couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Does Allah still speak to
people through intuition?’
After Lessons, he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and
they discussed the message.
Several different ones talked about how Allah had led them in different
ways and that at the end you’ll know it was Allah(SWT) Who has directed
you.
It was about ten o’clock when the young man started driving home.
Sitting in his car, he just began to pray, ‘Allah…If you still speak
to people, speak to me. I will listen.
I will do my best to obey.’
As he drove down the main street of his town, he had the strangest
thought to stop and buy a gallon of milk.
He shook his head and said out loud, ‘Allah is that you?’ He didn’t get
a reply and started on toward home.
But again, the thought, buy a gallon of milk came into his head.
‘Okay, Allah, in case that is you, I will buy the milk.’ It didn’t seem
like too hard a test of obedience. He could always use the milk. He
stopped and purchased the gallon of milk and started off toward home.
As he passed Seventh Street , he again felt the urge, ‘Turn Down that
street.’
This is crazy he thought, and drove on past the intersection.
Again, he felt that he should turn down Seventh Street ..
At the next intersection, he turned back and headed down Seventh.
Half jokingly, he said out loud, ‘Okay, Allah, I will.’
He drove several blocks, when suddenly, he felt like he should stop. He
pulled over to the curb and looked around. He was in a semi-commercial
area of town. It wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst of neighborhoods
either. The businesses were closed and most of the houses looked dark
like the people were already in bed.
Again, he sensed something, ‘Go and give the milk to the people in the
house across the street.’ The young man looked at the house. It was
dark and it looked like the people were either gone or they were already
asleep. He started to open the door and then sat back in the car seat.
‘Allah, this is insane. Those people are asleep and if I wake them up,
they are going to be mad and I will look stupid.’ Again, he felt like
he should go and give the milk.
Finally, he opened the door, ‘Okay Allah(SWT), if this is you, I will
go to the door and I will give them the milk. If you want me to look like
a crazy person, okay. I want to be obedient. I guess that will count for
something, but if they don’t answer right away, I am out of here.’
He walked across the street and rang the bell. He could hear some noise
inside. A man’s voice yelled out, ‘Who is it? What do you want?’ Then
the door opened before the young man could get away.
The man was standing there in his jeans and T-shirt. He looked like he
just got out of bed. He had a strange look on his face and he didn’t
seem too happy to have some stranger standing on his doorstep.
‘What is it?’
The young man thrust out the gallon of milk, ‘Here, I brought this to
you.’
The man took the milk and rushed down a hallway.
Then from down the hall came a woman carrying the milk toward the
kitchen.
The man was following her holding a baby. The baby was crying. The man had tears streaming down his face.The man began speaking and half crying, ‘We were just praying. We had some big bills this month and we ran out of money. We didn’t have any milk for our baby. I was just praying and asking Allah (SWT) to show me how to get some milk.’
His wife in the kitchen yelled out, ‘I ask him to send an Angel with
some.
Are you an Angel?’
The young man reached into his wallet and pulled out all the money he
had on him and put in the man’s hand. He turned and walked back toward his
car and the tears were streaming down his face.
He knew that Allah (SWT) still answers prayers.
The End…
Always remember… “All good things that happen, comes from Allah and all bad things that happen, comes from us.” So if our intuition brings out something good, then it is the will of Allah but if our intuition brings out something bad, then it either the will of our nafs or the will of influence from the devil, na’uzubillah….
Posted by zainon on November 27, 2007 at 10:50 am
Exactly. Blaming others for something bad that happen to us and being proud of what I have done is the characteristic that I always remind myself of not to practice. Only after many lessons that I have learn this habit. Being grateful to Allah in even the smallest gift is the best key to unlock it.
Every piece of rice that I eat I have no idea where it comes from, Alhamdulillah, it came right onto my plate. Every sip of water that I drink, comes from a source that is far away from me, yet it still comes clean in my glass. Alhamdullillah. Syukran, syukran, syukran..
Posted by javeria on November 28, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Asalamu Alaykum,
this is simply beautiful..
if we all take up the “blame thy self” attitude, this world will be a lot better place..
This is just soo true:
“All good things that happen, comes from Allah and all bad things that happen, comes from us.”
If only we learn to blame our own selves rather than pointing our finger to others…
coz in the end we can only change our own selves and nobody else.
JazakAllah for sharing this.
Wasalam.
Posted by ummabdurrahman on November 30, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Jazak Allahu Khair for sharing
Posted by Maryam on December 1, 2007 at 7:56 pm
What a beautiful story, I must say.
Reading this brought tears in my eyes. I too felt like Allah is/was talking to me through intution at-times.
Thanks for sharing…………..