(Actually there are not too many stories to tell.)
When I first went to pray in Masjid Nabawi, I experienced something new.
The prayer hall, was always full. Before prayer, you hear a constant hum - a combination of these hundreds of people reciting the Quran or talking to one another within the prayer hall. As soon as prayer starts, the hall is silent from voices but now the sounds of crying children/babies would fill the hall, as their mothers started to pray and leave the babies by their side or in front of them. Some of these cries continued to the end of solat. I was thinking, if this happens in Singapore, the mosque will probably get a few letters banning children and babies from the mosque so as not to disturb the jemaah. :-\ But here.. you fight for your own khushyu' Live with it.
After one of the prayers, on the way to Masjid Nabawi exit, and there are a lot of people sitting around the exterior part of Masjid Nabawi.
I noticed a mother seated on the floor with a, probably, 2 yr old child. The child was crying on her lap quite loudly and the mother was trying to calm the child down. As I was still looking at them, walking, suddenly I saw something small and hard being threwn at the mother and child. I was surprised and looked around, trying to locate the person who threw it at them. How can they just throw things at people because the child is crying?? Could it have been a mischievous boy?
The mother was also of course surprised and felt around her trying to locate the thrown thing. She picked it up in her hands and she saw that it's a sweet. She looked around and so did I. Then we noticed this old woman who is also seated on the floor 3-4 meters away from them, smiling and gesturing to her to let the child have the sweet, go on, let the child have the sweet. Apparently she was the one who threw the sweet at them. :D
The mother thanked the old lady and gave the child that sweet. In the midst of surprise and getting the sweet, the child had stopped crying.
And I was thinking.. astaghfirullah, how easy to think bad thoughts first - and it turned out to be a sincere, concerned act.
I must practise my husnozon (to think of the possible good intention) in any event.
2 comments:
Perhaps Singapore makes one think of orderly life - remove the unwanted if it causes conyinued irritation. So yoiu learnt something there. Many people talk of strange experiences in the Holy Land. It makes us wonder what. why and finally WHO.
Are we that clever after all?
Salam Pakcik :):)
Singapore - orderly life? I don't know, it's too complicated for a simple description. Shouldn't we be contented and happy if things are orderly? Of course there are many things to be thankful for - in that 'orderliness' But there seems to be lesser and lesser human touch, humanity. :(
No, we are not clever, we'll think we know some things, but the more we learn, the more we realise how much more we don't know.
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