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Stories
Who Will Help
You?
Mariyah was a very
intelligent and pious little girl. Not only was she at the
top of her class in school and madrasah but she was also
caring and helpful. Mariyah always tried to help her mother
with the housework and was always willing to run an errand
for her father.
Mariyah's parents were
also pious, practising Muslims and always advised her on
how to live as a good Muslim. Once her mother taught her
the lesson that if you ever lose anything you should
recite, "Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un" and also ask
Allah (SWT) to help you find your missing
item.
It so happened that two
days after learning this lesson Mariyah lost her new pencil
whilst playing with her friends at school. The little girl
started to cry as this was a gift from her
grandmother.
After a little while
Mariyah remembered the lesson taught to her by her mother.
Quickly drying her eyes she recited the dua and asked Allah
(SWT) to help her find her lost pencil. Before lunch time
had finished Mariyah's best friend, Fatimah, found her
pencil in the playground and returned it to her. The little
girl became very happy and thanked Allah for helping
her.
Moral:
Whenever we face any
difficulty or hardship we should ask Allah (SWT) for help.
It is only through Allah's Help and Mercy that our troubles
will come to an end. Similarly, we must remember to thank
Allah (SWT) when our difficulties have been
removed.
THE GOLDEN
EGG
Once in
a village far away lived a little girl by the name of
Sumayyah. She lived with her mother and had lost her father
at a very young age. They were very poor and used to barely
find enough food to pass the day. Once an old man gave them
a small chicken as a gift. They were very pleased and
looked after the chicken with a lot of care. As the chicken
grew older, it began to lay eggs. Sumayyah would rush to
collect the egg first thing in the morning. One morning
Sumayyah found that the chicken had laid a very strange egg
- it was a golden egg! She ran to show it to her mother,and
to their amazement it was a real gold egg. They went and
sold the egg and received a lot of money.
The chicken started to lay a gold egg every morning and before Sumayyah and her mother knew it, they were living a life of great luxury. But Sumayyah's mother slowly started to get greedy. She told Sumayyah one morning, 'It's very good that this chicken lays a golden egg every morning, but it makes us wait 24 hours before it gives us another one.' She continued, 'Instead of this, I have an idea'. She took Sumayyah to the kitchen and asked her to take the knife... 'But mum..!' exclaimed Sumayyah. But her mother didn't want to listen as she hurried towards the hen house. She told Sumayyah, 'If we cut the chicken we will get all the gold in one go, this way we won't have to wait every morning for it to lay an egg for us.' Sumayyah knew this was a very bad idea but her mother did not want to know. She cut the chicken... 'Where's all the gold?' she asked, as she looked at the dead chicken. There was no gold of course, just a dead chicken which will never lay a golden egg again. Sumayyah turned away in sadness whispering to herself, 'All because of greed!'
The King or The Kingdom Once there was a king who had a huge kingdom. He hod a very large palace with many rooms of which there were some rooms full of gold and silver. He also had many slaves, but from these slaves he had one slave, Mahmood whom he loved very much. Once the king decided that he wanted to have an open day in his palace in which people from his entire kingdom would come and take whatever they placed their hands on. The date was fixed and the time between Fajr and Maghrib was chosen to be the time of opening. Very soon the day arrived and people queued outside the gates of the palace. Immediately after the Fajr salah the gates opened and the crowd began rushing straight into the king's palace and taking whatever they could get their hands on. As time for Maghrib approached the king turned to his slave, Mahmood, and said, 'Do you not intend to take anything from my kingdom? Quickly, go! Place your hands on something before it is too late'. Mahmood replied, 'Could I have whatever I place my hands on?' The king replied, 'Of course! Can't you see people have been comming since Fajr and taking whatever they wanted!' Mahmood paused for a while and slowly moved his hands in the direction of the king and very inteligently placed them on the king's shoulders and said, 'This is what I want, the items in your kingdom will soon finish but if I have you then the entire kingdom will be mine.' Like in the story we are also in a big kingdom with our King "Allah". Though we should ask Allah for everything we want, as He is the only One who gives, our aim should always be to acquire Allah. Because when Allah becomes ours then whatever we need will be ours. And the way to acquire Allah is to follow the teachings of the Qur'an and Hadeeth.
Kinder Character We are Muslims so let us try, Never cheat or tell a lie. Nor to backbite or to be rude, Or with people to be cruel. We are Muslims so let us aim, Never to hurt or harm or pain. Nor to show-off or deceive, Or to carry an unfair deed. We are Muslims, try we should, To leave all wrongs and plant all good. To please Allah a whole lot better, Let us start with a kinder character. by Bushra Abdul Rauf, London (Age: 10 years)
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