If this story doesn't make you smile, sue me :0)
So I was watching Iqraa international TV with my mum and a sheikh
told an anecdotal story about how one should never put themselves down or
discourage themselves from doing good. This story related to memorisation of
the Quran and how it's never too late to start learning.
A lady walked into a Daar- in Saudi I'm supposing- at the age of 60
and asked the sisters there to help her memorise the Quran.
They looked at her a little shocked, and rightly so,
she's 60 and most girls that go there are 18, 19 in their 20's.
They said "O Aunty, your 60 it's going to be too hard for you!"
She said, "I want to memorise it, teach me."
They looked at her a little shocked, and rightly so,
she's 60 and most girls that go there are 18, 19 in their 20's.
They said "O Aunty, your 60 it's going to be too hard for you!"
She said, "I want to memorise it, teach me."
They said "Ok",
They supposed she'd stay there for a few weeks, months at most and eventually tire and give up.
They supposed she'd stay there for a few weeks, months at most and eventually tire and give up.
They took her in and the teacher wanted to test her reading
to see which level she should start at, whether it be beginners,
intermediate or advance
She picked up the Quran, upside down and sought to read.
The teacher looked at her shocked and said "O aunty!
What are you doing! Your reading the Quran upside down!"
She said, "O my young child, I don't know how to read or
write."
This shocked the teachers.
They said, "How do you suppose you will memorise the Quran when you
can't read Arabic?"
She said, "I'm going to memorise it, so solve my problem for me."
They took her to the faculty of Arabic reading and writing nearby,
and there she learnt from scratch,
how to read and write- at the age of 60.
and there she learnt from scratch,
how to read and write- at the age of 60.
She finished learning how to read Arabic within 1 year.
She went back to the Quran school at the age of 61
and there she began to memorise the Quran.
She memorised it whole within 4 years.
She graduated from that school having memorised the Quran by the
age of 65.
Persistence was the key, and she never let her age get in the
way,
simply because
age is never an obstacle for starting anything.
SubhanAllah, how lucky she is, she caught herself just in the nick
of time and saved herself from being alone in the grave and having nothing
interceded for her at the questioning and on the day of Resurrection.
SubhanAllah, when Allah wills good for someone nothing can prevent
it, and when He wills bad for someone no one can stop it.
~~~
Surat Al Ra'd (The
Thunder) Verse 11:
For him are angels
ranged before him and behind him, who guard him by Allah's command.
Lo! Allah changeth not
the condition of a folk until they (first) change that which is within their
hearts;
And if Allah willeth
misfortune for a fold there is none that can repel it, nor have they a defender
beside Him.
~~~
