The Stranger

[Yasmin]

aslamualykum


hey everyone, just find this topic on the net and though maybe usueful for the young ones. sorry is tooo long


The Stranger


A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. Fom the beginning, dad was fascinated with this enchanting new comer and soon invited him to live with our family.Though his outside apperance was not attractive, the 'stranger' was quickly accepted, and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later. As I grew up, I never questioned his place in the family. In my young mind, each member had a specific niche. My parents were complementary instructors. Mum taught me to love Allah and dad taught me to obey him.


But the 'stranger' was our storyteller. He would weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spell bond for hours each evening and would consume most of our time over the weekend. If I wanted to know about politics, history, science; he knew it all. He knew about the past and understand the present. The pictures he could draw where so life-like that I would often laugh or cry as I watched. He was like a friend to the whole family.


He was always encouraging us to see the movies and made arrangements to introduce us to several famous people. The 'stranger' was an incessant talker. Dad did not seem to mind but sometimes mum would quietly get up, while the rest of us were engrossed with one of his stories of far away places, she would go to her room and read the Quraan. She would quietly tell us that the Holy Prophet Muhammed(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said(something similiar to...) "THE BEAUTY OF ONE'S FAITH IS SHUNNING ALL NON-PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES".


I wonder now if she had ever prayed that the 'stranger' would leave. You see,my dad ruled the household with certain moral convictions, but this 'stranger' never obligated to honour them. Profanity,for example, was not allowed in the house, from us, from our friends nor from anybody else.


Our long time visitor however used four letter words that burned my ears and made dad squirm. To my knowledge the 'stranger' was never confronted by anyone. My dad was a teetotaller(a person who advocates total abstinence from intoxicants) who did not even permit alcohol in his home, but the 'stranger' felt that we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often. He made cigarettes look appealing. He encouraged us to flirt with women. I know now that my early concepts of the man and women relationships were influenced by the 'stranger'.


As I look back I believe that it was Allah's mercy that the 'stranger' did not influence us more. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. But if I had to walk in my parents's bedroom, I would still see him sitting in a corner waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures and enchant his audience with his magic.


His name you may ask?


we call him the T.V.

[Anyabwile]

Hehe that was great. It reminds me of my job, basically i work for a Cable TV and Telephone company in the faults department, taking faults by the phone and helping the customers resolve them if possible. And sometimes, if a persons Cable receiver where they get all the hundreds of channels though their TV goes down, they will scream to me down the phone...


"what am i supposed to do with the kids this weekend, the TV isn't working!!!!"


On the last day i work at that place, if somene says that to me, i swear i'm going to say something like. "Try talking to them"

[NewBeginning]

Sad.

[umm Zachariah]

There are many sad and unhappy people out there that has not found their place in life

[lifutushi]

Alhamdulillah....


it is great to be a Muslim.... faith is the most essential passion...

[NaSra]

Asalamalaykum


Jzk Yasmin


I agree with the above posters "sad" indeed.


<b>In Saheeh al-Bukhaari (6343) it is reported that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:</b> “Every son of Adam has his share of zinaa decreed for him, and he will undoubtedly get his share. The eye commits zinaa and its zinaa is looking. The tongue commits zinaa and its zinaa is speaking; the feet commit zinaa and their zinaa is walking; the hands commit zinaa and their zinaa is touching. The heart longs and desires for something and the private parts confirm that or deny it.”


Imagine how many people committ zina every second by watching t.v, and they don't even realise it?

Hehe that was great. It reminds me of my job, basically i work for a Cable TV and Telephone company in the faults department, taking faults by the phone and helping the customers resolve them if possible. And sometimes, if a persons Cable receiver where they get all the hundreds of channels though their TV goes down, they will scream to me down the phone...
"what am i supposed to do with the kids this weekend, the TV isn't working!!!!"


On the last day i work at that place, if somene says that to me, i swear i'm going to say something like. "Try talking to them"

SubhanaAllah. Instead of spending some valuable time with their children, they keep them busy with the t.v so that they can do somehting else instead.


I think for many parents, its a some kind of a gate'away, "give the children food, and just tell them to watch t.v" How more cruel can some parents get?

[ahmedyhy]

God has commanded humanity to avoid evil; he has forbidden immorality, rebellion, cruelty, aggressiveness, murder and bloodshed. Those who do not obey this command of God are walking in the steps of Satan, as it says in the verse above, and have adopted an attitude that God has clearly declared unlawful. Of the many verses that bear on this subject, here are only two:


But as for those who break God's contract after it has been agreed and sever what God has commanded to be joined, and cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They will have the Evil Abode. (Surat ar-Ra'd: 25)


Seek the abode of the hereafter with what God has given you, without forgetting your portion of the world. And do good as God has been good to you. And do not seek to cause mischief on earth. God does not love mischief makers.' (Surat al-Qasas: 77)


As we can see, God has forbidden every kind of mischievous acts in the religion of Islam including terrorism and violence, and condemned those who commit such deeds. A Muslim lends beauty to the world and improves it.