A day well spent..

Eid Mubarak to everyone, taqabalAllahu mina wa minkum! I hope you all enjoyed your Ramadan and that it continues for you all year long,

For Eid, me and 2 sisters decided to go to the hospital and stay with the aunt I’ve previously wrote about (habyar Habiba) and it was so cute. We got her cards and hung them around her room, then began reciting Quran for her. Our initial plan was to stay with her for a little then leave to have fun but once we got there our mood changed and we all felt sick to our stomach knowing that we would leave and she would remain on her bed. So we stayed with her for majority of the day only leaving too go eat shortly. As we sat by her we started to recite Surah Hashr and we got to the ayat where Allah says, ”Not equal are the companions of the Fire and the companions of Paradise. The companions of Paradise – they are the attainers [of success]” and subhanAllah this is where I broke down, I just began to repeat that ayah and started to cry because as I was looking at her I was thinking, wallahi she is someone who deserves a house in paradise beside Allah, someone who has been tied down to there bed for 5 years not able to speak or do anything for herself. I felt so sad knowing that we would leave her to herself on such a joyous day so we discussed and decided we would stay with her and recite Quran on her all day, and we weren’t prepared for what happened next. 

 

I began to play with her hair and massage her scalp and she turned her head in my direction and began to come close to me sitting up. One of the sisters dropped to the floor and bursted into tears because this is something the aunt has never done before, she does not move around nor get up by herself. And she sat up for a long period of time, holding herself up. We began to recite Juz Amma from the bottom up and we noticed more of a reaction towards the shorter surahs then the longer ones (baqarah) almost as if she knew these surahs. After about an hour of reading Quran we asked, ”habyar should we continue reading the Quran?” and she nodded her head yes, so we continued, and she would keep sitting up and diverting her gaze looking at each of us. Then she began to look at random parts of the room like corners and her eyes would widen and mouth would open so much so that we swore there were angels in the room with us because of the way she was looking around, then she would squint as if there were light in her eyes although there wasn’t. All in all this was probably the best Eid I’ve ever had due to how much khayr came out of it, staying at the hospital for Eid made me realize how lucky we are for the health that Allah gives us. A lot of times people forget that Eid in itself is a day of worship so you should keep up your acts of ibaadaah that day as well, so going to the hospital reciting Quran on Eid was the most fun I could have ever had. Then the second day ended up buying Toys for our Eid Toy Drive for sick kids hospital and dropping it off to them, and the third day the actual Eid event with all the sick children at the hospital. 

 

I just wanted to share that with you all, may Allah make us of those people who use our health to worship Him while we can. May Allah also cure the aunt who has been sick for so long, and may He grant my sisters jannah-tul-firdows for being so beneficial ❤