ألاء

I’m a thinker, not a talker.

“Me, We.” Muhammad Ali

When I was in Madinah studying, there was a student who was one of my best friends. His family was not that rich but they sent him some amount of money every month, so we would go to the supermarket together. Over there in the local neighbourhood supermarket, there is a trust factor. You go and buy for the whole month, they record it in a notebook, and at the end of the month you go and pay it. This friend of mine used to take the money his family gave him, set it aside and not spend it on himself. He would go to the local neighbourhood market, and ask them is there anyone struggling who cannot pay and they are giving you a hard time? One time he said there was a widow and she had a few kids. It was probably a few months that she had not paid, so he took out the money and paid it. No one knew – he told the owner not to tell anybody and just to tell her the amount has been paid. Some time thereafter, we returned one time and he said the widow came to pay and he told her it has been paid. He said she stood there crying and crying and making Du’aa for the one who paid that amount.