This is a conversation i heard while leaving the mosque today after Jumu’ah between a brother and an Eastern European woman holding a young child and begging for money:
Woman: Money please…
Brother: (ignores her and walks on)
Woman: (enraged) I hope Allah kills you because you don’t help my child. Watch out for the rest of the day!!
Brother: Don’t have children then stupid!
5 Comments
April 20, 2008 at 2:28 am
Hmm…. And the moral of the story is…?
April 20, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Salam! Wow! That was cold! I would be honored to have you as a member. Hope you don’t mind the plug! If you do, feel free to delete. Wish you’d join! Thanks!
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April 21, 2008 at 10:18 am
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
I don’t think there’s supposed to be a moral; I think it’s probably typical of the experience of some brothers who attend mosques in certain parts of London. I know that’s how it was when I lived in Croydon in the late 1990s and attended the mosque there; we would have Romanian gypsies accompanied by their children (or babies, or dolls) saying “salaamu ‘alaikum” and begging for money in the irritating melodramatic way some of them do.
May 1, 2008 at 6:38 am
Salaams – Didn’t the Prophet (aws) say you should give to a beggar even id he is fat and riding on a horse? Should we not be kind, even if we do not think someone is genuine in their request for help? That’s the moral. I would have thought it was one every Muslim should be aware of.
August 19, 2008 at 3:29 pm
walaikumassalam
really? i mean, the saying of the Prophet (saws) br. julaybib’s talking abt? can someone confirm?