As I was walking with my Arab guys, we are talking about the current political issues, world events (such as the earthquake in the Indian subcontinent), also we are talking about the Ummah here and internationally.......we are going to our cars when Yahya stops and cries out "We didn't pray asr yet!!!"....I look at my wacth and reply "By golly your are right we can make the Jammat inshallah if we hurry!"....to this a brother replies that we could have missed it and let us just make our own jammat......on this an argument erupts.....
I am standing there tearfully, in my head I remember a story I read once long ago when I was much younger. The Prophet (saw) on a campain before the warriors left he told them to march straight for there destination, and they left. As the army marched it was time for Salah....half wanted to stop and pray, while the other haplf sayed the Prophet (saw) sayed to march straight to their destination. So the army split 50/50....by the time the half that stayed and prayed first reached the battefiled the army that marched straight had already won the battle.
When the reached the Blessed city of Medina they told the Prophet (saw) what happened....The prophet sayed no side was at fault "this is how my Ummah will split" he sayed. Another time the blessed Prophet (saw) drew a fine straight line in the sand and drew branches from it and sayed "My Ummah will split in the 73 sects, they will split like I have drawin this...but one the ones on this path (the straight line) will enter Paradise" (Note: I have not quoted it excatly word per word)
As they continued to argue I looked around and my eyes fell upon Yahya who also had tears in his eyes we gazed upon each other, our eyes locked and I realized he was also remembering those Hadiths I told him......Abraham, Solomon, and Ariel back of letting us Muslims sort it out (2 Christian Arabs, and 1 Jewish Arab)
"ENOUGH!" I cry.
"We already missed whatever chance we had on cathing the Jammat thanks to your guys bickering, so we mite as well just make our own Jammat" sayes Yahya
And so we make our own Jammat....and after we reflect on whjat we did wrong and pray that it will never happne again and then we............
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