The Rope of Allah(SWT)

Assalamulaikum folks!

       Today’s topic is about The Rope of Allah azawajjal, faith in Islam. Moving to India was a challenge for me. Nothing seemed to go right. Everything seemed to be out of place. I thought moving to India would be a cultural expierence and it was, it just wasn’t Indian culture. It seemed as if I landed in a Third World America. Every one seemed to emulating the west. This was fine, but what bothered me is tha they emulated the wrong aspects of the west. It was extremism to the evil light of the west. School, well, I thought school was going to be like a school in the Bollywood movies. I was afraid of the beating I might get daily, I thought no one knew english fluently, and I thought no one knew about the west. That was my ‘extreme’ way of thinking. I came there and saw a completely different school as how I had imagined it to be. People knew english better than me! That’s not the schocking part though. What schocled me was the fact that the school I thought was the other extreme of what I had imagined it to be. The kids had all the bad qualities of the west; drinking, gossiping, smoking, smoking pot in the bathrooms, buying condoms and porn,  everything. Astakfarullah you say? Well brother, let me tell you the bitter truth, half of these kids are Muslim. I then completely lost hope, even worse, I lost faith. Faith in everything. Faith in a better Ummah, freinds, and sometimes even in Allah (SWT). My hands were slipping off the Rope of Allah azawajjal. Then I realized that , I can’t do that. It’s not just just that it’s wrong. It’s completely HARAM!!! So I grabbed the Rope and made intense du’a. I went out and started a youth group. This was the craziest and misunderstood idea ever. Why? Because I started. I was a nobody. This was not even a legitamate group. No kid accepted it. No parent accepted. I made more du’a. I then found a group of five devoted kids who were at my doorstep. Allhamdullilah the mission was almost accomplished. Coencidently, Peace Exhibition was going on the following week. I had bumped into Zakir Ahmed (Chairman of Peace) and later Zakir Naik, both by accident, and I just brought the subject and they agreed to support us on our mission. Allhamdullilah after alot of du’a, everthing came to place. The kids coming to my doorstep, Peace coming up without me knowling, bumping into the Chairman of Peace and a Muslim Icon, coencidence? No. This is all because of Iman, a lot of du’a to Allah azawajjal. Allah (SWT) put things in place and gave it to us on a platter. Honestly, I barely did anything. Wallahi, it was all givin to us by Allah (SWT).  So always make du’a and hold on to the Rope Of Allah azawajjal.

Shabba Khair