Retrospective

I know I am not perfect..I am far from it actually. There are things that I wish I didn't do, didn't say or should have done better..but recently something happened to a friend of mine that made me think and rethink on a lot of things in my life.

June last year I befriended a friend at work, we became quite close and we sort of kept in touch even after she resigned in August due to personal circumstances. We lost contact for a while and sometime in November both of us decided to meet up over lunch and do some catching up on each others lives since we last meet. Lunch was then dragged on til dinner..to tell u the truth, anyone will say that we are an unlikely match, we are so much different from one another and most of the time we do annoy each other..i don't even know how now she became one of my most treasured friends.

OK, back to the story...so our friendship continue on like any other friendship would..we shop together, go clubbing together, cook together, and at times she would stay at my place for days and we would just have late night conversations til we both just could keep our eyes open anymore..mind you this irritates the hell out of my hubby..cos he would be forced to join the conversation as well when he clearly just want to be left alone to do his work...kesian Saiful..

Anywayyyysssss, in January this year suddenly she starts to ask a lot of question on religion especially Islam..she was an atheist by the way..and i would answer the best as i can cos believe me i am not the best Muslim there is to be answering the questions that came from this inquisitive woman. She even asked me on how to pray, and uses the word InsyaAllah regularly..amongst others.

Then last week when she called me and told me that she just returned from the mosque to see someone about embracing Islam as her religion. I was speechless for a couple of minutes..for a while there i thought she just spoke in a totally different language. I was proper stunned! When we met later that day, she told me on how she came to make that decision..how she has been reading a lot about Islam and other religions as well but she said Islam is the only religion that made sense to her. How she learned a lot from staying over at my house and observed the way we communicate with each other..she felt like all of the sudden, the pieces of jigsaws in her life suddenly fits together..the events that lead her to this moment finally made sense.

She said that although she made the decision on her own, she couldn't help but feeling that God wanted her to meet me. She was thankful that God crosses our paths together and ever since that her life has been more meaningful. This came from a woman who used to hate muslims because of the misconceptions that she had towards the religion. She said that meeting me and all of my friends here in Sunderland and Newcastle changed her perception. To be frank, if she turned around and say that she wants to embrace any other religion, i would be happy for her as well, if thats her choice. But Alhamdulillah in my imperfections i have in a way influenced her to Islam and if that what makes her happy, and feels right for her, then it is even better.

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds,
and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth,
and of Patience and Constancy. ~Al Ansr

Comments

[R'nis JuniTa]

i m touched reading this entry :) , happy and proud at the same time. Alhamdulillah