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A Special Book
Walking down the streets of my neighborhood in the early morning and making my way towards the ’taxi stop’ (Muslim-majority country), I expected to routinely make it to my class. I soon found out that there was an enlightening twist awaiting me today.
I entered the taxi, which would usually be filled with passengers later on in the day, and it was just me and the driver. Taking a look at the driver, he just seemed like a ‘regular’ old man, cigarette in hand, and the effects of poverty were quite apparent in his attire and his facial expressions. I tried to block those digressive thoughts out of my mind and tried to focus on the Qur’an I was preparing for my class. To my surprise, the man somberly told me: “Read Qur’an for me ya Shaikh”. To me, this was a bit awkward. I was never accustomed to having conversations with taxi drivers, let alone recite Qur’an for them. But Allah blessed me to accept his request, and I only asked him if he could please put out the cigarette.
“Take Your Portion of Seclusion”
The acquirement of knowledge or the improvement of one’s condition.”
The same message can be found in many of the Salaf’s narrations wherein they warn from heavily mixing with the people and encourage seclusion. Of course this is not to say we should abandon our friends or family! But we should be balanced. We should make time for them and also for ourselves; time to remember Allah without any distractions, time to take ourselves to account for good and bad deeds.
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