Il Ham Mai Hum

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

On the way to meet up with the guys...and lady, i chanced upon a peculiar white clad arab fellow in the moulana mosque at raffles place.

He was asking for donations for them gaza people.

So as always, it was a ask, give, thank, smile, leave thing.

But after drawing cash to go buy some dinner, i met said rollie-pollie (lol fatmah's line)
arab guy walking towards the pub areas.

So i caught up with him and he went (pointing to the pubs) Kafir? Kafir?

So i thought, finally! someone with common ground.

So i striked up a conversation with him. Apparently he's from some place near kandahar and was here to collect donations.

His words, were always filled, drenched, laced with praises, supplications, prayers to Allah. His actions calm and collected (though he was lost, trying to find his way back to some mosque in little india).

He only got angry, and when i say angry i dont mean shout and curse but more like...a tad increase in tone when he walked pass the pubs.

Kafiruns he said. Along with some qoutes from the holy Quran. Kafiruns and yahudis (he shakes his head). Then he talked about it being near the end of times (yes it sure is).

The whole experience, really answered that answered question thats been nagging me for the past few days.
How to best emulate The Prophet.

I guess its like that dude.

He's a total stranger. Yet i felt very comfortable being alongside him. As if i knew him for a long time, as if he was blood. Till the point that i didn't want to go off. (i wanted to help him get to mustafa). Though he spoke little english and a microscopic amount of malay, i felt that we really could communicate.

Not by race, hobbies or what not.
But by relgion.
By the love of Allah, his prophet Muhammad saw, and his religion Islam.

Now that, to me, is the answer to the question that has deluded everyone from the mere peasant to the knowledgable.
What is the meaning of life?
Peaceful Submission to the Almighty.

Now what he's doing. Its the true jihad. Going into a new place. Filled with satan and sin. Alone, lost but with strong faith and will, to help the ones oppressed by the ones who are cursed.

This week is study week!.
yet, i totally wasted(not) by hanging out with gang.
=DDDD