Mama Hekmat

wish i could tell you baba that mama hekmat passed away, and console you and itrahham 3leeha together, but you and her are in it together now.  I ask Allah SWT to bless her and gather her with all the good people, to accept her good deeds and mulitply them and to forgive her sins and overlook them.  Ya Allah, ighfir laha warhamha wa anta khayrul rahimeen.  Allahumma ameen.

July 22nd, 2011

first july 22nd without my baba.  Allah yerhamak.  thinkin of deeja on this day, must be lonely for her. 
had a short qiyam at the mascc and saw baba during his last ramadan standing there giving one of his last khawatir. 
lots on my mind this ramadan, as baba vividly was a part of my memory last ramadan.  will write more inshaAllah. 

Where do Words Come From?

Sumayya wants to know who named the animals with their specific names?  ....

Who invented language? Was it when Allah SWT taught Adam the names of all things? Was that the teaching of the concept of speech and language?

Yellow Socks

Yesterday Shifaa was visiting mama in the hospital.  "Giddu Esam Allah yerhamu kaan laabi shurab abyad," she said as she noted Teta's white hospital socks. 

The nurse noted that yellow socks denote that the patient is a fall risk....

Watermelon

I was eating a watermelon a few minutes ago, and a pain washed over me.  I remembered Tariq Dahmas's passing, and remembered how baba's appetite was taken away by the cold, unfeeling hospital staff and doctors who starved him to death when he had an amazing appetite, made him reach the point of not wanting a taste of anything within 5 days. Allah yakhudhum.  They starved my father. 

I still see the image of him gulping down that small, 4 oz bottle of Danone yogurt drink like a starving man, with no reservations, not even caring that we were all looking at him with shy eyes.  He gulped it down like a starving man and wished for more.  May you be swimming in a Paradise of sweet tasting, cool water ya Abi.  May Allah take them for treating my father that way. Coming in the middle of the day, at 2 pm, and telling him not to eat anything or drink anything till the next morning so they could run a ct scan on him.  And him muttering, 'la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah.'  Another day of starvation for a man who was already down to 115 pounds.  Another day of starvation, when he didn't need to.  He could've done that stupid CT scan and have only fasted 8 hours before it, not 18.  I hate them and the system for its cold hearted unfeelingness.  And then, just three days later, we were begging him to take a spoon of soup, a sip of a drink.  But he didn't care for food anymore.  All he wanted was water.  Irhamnee ya rab.

Tariq Dahmas Passed Away

Allah yerhamuh.  Saif and Muhammed's close childhood friend passed away yesterday at the age of 34 years from a brain tumor that took over his body.  May Allah envelope him with his rahma ya rabb.  My heart goes out to his family, his wife, his parents, his siblings, his best friends and everyone who was touched by him.  I still hear his voice ringing in my ears from Saif's fone calls to him at random times, telling him of the latest prognosis.  Allah yerhamu.  He is now with his Creator. 

Maryam is Engaged!

alhamdulillah.  been looking fwd to this day, and happy it's here, but defn worried for my lil sis.  hope Allah gives her sa3ada in this life and hereafter.  be happy maryam!

why worried? just always wondering if this is the guy that will be right for her.  fear she looks for too much excitement in life and is too anal about marriage.  Allah Kareem.