A blessed Wednesday

In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Assalamualaikum

Title: A blessed Wednesday

Sometimes, a word of encouragement, is all that one may need, to help them go through with life. We should never get tired of doing little things for others because it is these little things, that will ocuppy us a big place in their hearts. As of from today, I want to be kind; like really really kind, because I want to practise the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w's sunnahs. And when I perform the acts of kindness, I want to be able to do it with sincerity, and do it all purely out of love for The Almighty.

On a side note, for some reason, I feel so blessed today, so many good things happened to me. All the good things that happened to me, could probably be a small form of reward from Allah s.w.t. Or well, maybe it could just be pure luck. But then again, things could only really happen if He wills it to happen, right?

Why was today a good day for me? Here's why!

1) I received a text message from a sister asking if I could relief a class at Darul Makmur Mosque during the coming weekend. I jumped at the opportunity and gladly gave her a yes for an answer. I was then referred to the Executive Officer of the Youth department from Darul Makmur and I was told to wait for a call tomorrow morning from the Ustazah in charge because she will be briefing me about the lesson plan for the students. I really hope that it will be little children that I will be dealing with because it is my area of expertise! That would really make my job a little easier. But deep down, my heart says otherwise. I've just got this strong feeling that I will be given a youth class instead. Youths, my age. Yikes, that'll be awkward. But at this moment, I could only just keep my fingers crossed and wait for the call from the Ustazah to fill me in, with the necessary details. InsyaAllah, all will be well. Please make doa' for me!

2) & then I received another text message from a cousin early this morning, asking if I could tutor her Mathematics. Her SA2's will be coming up and she's freaking out like mad. I'm not good in mathematics and I hated mathematics. But I still gave her a yes anyway because it is Secondary 2 (NA) maths that I'll be dealing with. Shouldn't be much of a problem, or so I hope. So, I'll be going over to her house tomorrow afternoon and I will try my very best in assisting her, to the best of my ability insyaAllah.

3) Remember I blogged about this one makcik that I met at Assyakirin mosque months back? The one who asked me if I wanted to get married etc, and then I freaked out? Yeah, that one. I met her again at the mosque today. Actually, my dad had first bumped into her in the afternoon andu upon their 'meeting',(then I was still at home), dad sent me a text message and in it, he jokingly warned me that the makcik is back at Assyakirin to look for me and that I should be wary. So anyway, here was how their conversation was like, as narrated by my dad.

Makcik: Haji, haji! Anaknyer datang belajar tak hari ini?

Dad: Ye, saya. Anak saya akan datang nanti. Kan dia ade pergas hari ni.

Makcik: Alhamdulilah. Dah lama saya tak jumpa anak haji tu. Takpelah, nanti maghrib saya cari dia kat musollah.

Dad: Kenapa?

Makcik: Ade bende yang saya nak kasi kat dia.

*makcik turns to her friend*

Makcik: Kau tau, anak haji tu lawa tau. Putih, cantik. Aku suka pandang dia. Lawaaaa, putihhhhh.

Dad: *laughs & walk away*

True enough, the makcik came to look for me at the musollah during Maghrib prayers. We merely exchanged smiles because Maghrib prayers was about to start. Upon completing the Maghrib prayers, I went up to the makcik and asked her politely:

Me: Cik, tadi ayah saya cakap, cik nak jumpa saya ye? Ade ape-ape yang saya boleh bantu ke cik?

Makcik: *grabbed my hands* Takde ape-ape sayang. Cik nak kasi duit raya aje ni. Selamat hari raya ye.

Me: Lah, buat susah-susah aje. Terima kasih ye cik. Semoga Allah murahkan rezeqi cik sekeluarga. Jumpa time isya' nanti.

Okay so, it was just a green packet. Phew, I felt a sense of relief, for some reason. Because initially, I thought that she had wanted to give me a ring and ask my hand for marriage or something. Even my parents had jokingly thought so too. Haha! So, as I climbed the stairs back up to class, I opened the green packet and had expected a $2 note to be inside. But I was wrong. It wasn't a $2 note. Not a $5 note. Not a $10 note even. If was a freaking $50 note! I nearly lost my balance from the stairs because I was so shocked. At that moment, I really wanted to run back to the musollah and return the green packet back to the makcik because I thought that the amount of hari raya money she gave me, was just too much! I mean, I don't even know her personally. But it wouldn't be so nice to do that would it? It would seem rude. So, I just took it as another form of rezeqi from Allah and I could only pray that Allah make all her affairs easy; both in dunya and akhirah insyaAllah.

4) At about 11.00pm, I received a call from a sister. She was crying on the phone as she ranted about her family problems and I feel kinda bad for her, because I couldn't be that much of a help, except to give her words of comfort and lend her a listening ear. Her crying grew even louder when she mentioned that her current 6 year old sister, is not able to read well and she is worried for that because her sister will be entering Primary 1 in 2012. Her family did send her for tuition but unfortunately, they could not afford to pay the fees. And that was where I jumped in at the opportunity, to help her sister ace in reading. I'm in Early Childhood anyway and so this should be my area of expertise and I could use this as a good platfrom for me to put all the skills that I have learnt in school, into use. It'll be a good opportunity for me, and besides I am really sorry for the state that they are in and I wanna help them. I sincerely want to. & given the current financial situation that they are in, I decided that I will not ask for any fees and will tutor her little sister for free. And I am doing all this, all for the sake of Allah. See, I'm just helping another one of His servants. I just asked that the family pray for my well-being, dunya wal akhirah. So tutoring will officially begin on every Sunday, starting October insyaAllah. Make doa' for me, and make doa' for this family too!

What a blessed Wednesday today was. And I consider today to be a blessed day because I'm glad that Allah has opened many room of opportunities for me, to render assistance to those who are in need. It just feels great, to be able to help, and  make other people feel at ease. Weehee, I'm a happy girl today. Alhamdulilah! =]