A Tasbih from the Masjid-l-Haram + The Stories of my Life
ALLAH Is Closer Than You Imagine The Story of a Tasbih from the Masjid-l-Haram When I performed Umrah some time ago, I met a fellow sister from Nigeria who has lived in Makkah for about 8 years. She was so warm to me—and she speaks Yorùbá. She isn’t Yorùbá by tribe, but she lived in Kwara, and that is how she learned the language. So we spoke Yorùbá inside Masjid al-Ḥarām . I was very happy about meeting a fellow Nigerian at the Haram because I did Umrah without the typical group. It was just a nice feeling. As a parting gift, she gave me a tasbih counter. She herself is like a gift from ALLAH and a delight. May Almighty ALLAH preserve her. That tasbih counter turned out to be a very meaningful gift. The Plan of ALLAH About two years before the Umrah, a grandmother accepted Islam through me. I tried so hard to get her to observe Salah, but she never budged. So I had already given up hope and began to assume she'll never observe Salah. I had already stopped thinking about h...