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Something which we all can learn
from......
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Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:11 AM
Subject: Fw: [fpmalumni] FW: ALLAH IS GREAT
Hailan Abdul Hamid
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This is something from the Islamic
E-Group.
Read it and we may find deep within us...we have strayed too far
from the
teachings of
Al-Quran.
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Just
to share the news that I just received.
God is great.
A True Story
of Repentance Layla Al Helw, a Moroccan woman,
has been afflicted
by cancer, and the doctors were completely helpless
to cure her. The
best specialists of Europe had no hope for her
recovery - even Layla herself
lost all hope - but Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala (SWT) had the
solution....
Here's Layla's
story:
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9 years ago I found out
that I have a very dangerous disease,
cancer.. everyone here knows even
the mention of this name is
scary!..
My faith in Allah was very
weak. I had completely drifted away
from the remembrance of Allah
SWT, and I used to think that one's
beauty and health shall
remain all her life.. I never ever
thought I would be
afflicted by a disease like cancer.. and so
when I found out, it did
shake me so strongly from the inside..
I thought of escaping.. but,
where? where in the world I can escape from
this disease that is
inside me whereever I go? I thought of committing
suicide! But..
I was deeply in love with my husband and my
children.
I
did not think of Allah's punishment if I committed
such a sin.. because, as I
told you before, I was far away from
remembering Allah..
It was
of Allah's will that this disease was the reason for my guidance
and
the
reason for guiding a lot of people as well..
I went to
Belgium, and I visited many doctors there.. they told
my
husband that I first have to remove my breasts, then go on
certain
medication! I knew that such medication would make my
hair
fall and my eye lashes and brows to disappear.. it shall
also grow
a beard on my face and make the nails and teeth fall as
well...
so I completely refused this solution.. "I would rather
die with my
breasts,
teeth and everything that Allah has created for
me than to live
without them", I said...
I asked the doctors
to give me another medication course that is
less effective.. and
so they did.. I went back to Morocco.. I used the
medication course and
it did not have any bad effects on my body
which made me so
happy.. I thought; maybe the doctors were wrong
and I
didn't have cancer...
However, after about six months, I
started losing weight quickly,
my color started to change and I had a
continuous pain.. My
Moroccan doctor adviced me to go back to
Europe, and so I did..
There, in Belgium, was the disaster!.. the
doctors told my
husband that the disease has spread all over my body,
that the lungs
were completely infected and that they now have no
solution for my
case... they said: "you better take your wife
back to her
country so that she dies there!"..
My husband got
shocked...and instead of going back to Morocco, we
went to France
thinking that we might reach to a solution there......
But, we got
in France, nothing more than what we achieved to in
Belgium!
Finally, we decided to enter the hospital to remove
my breasts through
a surgical therapy and go on the strong
medication (the doctors
prescribed before)..
However.... my husband thought of something
that we had always
forgot.. something that was always too far away from
our
thoughts, sadly.. God inspired my husband to take me to His
holy house
in Mecca.. maybe we can stand in front of Allah and
ask Him to
help us find away out of this problem...
We left Paris
saying: "Allahu Akbar, La Ilaha Illa Allah" (Allah
is the Greatest, No
God but Allah)... I was very happy because
this was the
first time for me to visit the Holy House of Allah and
see the
"Kaaba".. I bought a copy of the Quran from Paris,
I
did not even have that with me before that!... And we went
to
Mecca...
When I entered the holy mosque and first saw the
Kaaba I cried
a lot.. the sight, of the place of worship of the prophets of
God,
the Holy Mosque, the multitude of Muslims and Majesty, the
Bounty and
the sheer Splendour of my Lord, Allah...!
I was crying because I
couldn't face all this, because I regretted
all those past years I had spent
without praying and seeking
Allah's help... I said: "O'
Lord, the doctors were unable to cure
me... (You) have the cure for
every disease.. All the doors are
locked in front of me.. I have
nothing left to seek except Your
door, so please.. please Lord,
don't close Your door on me..."
I kept on praying to Allah and
making Doa while I was going
around the Kaaba.. I asked Him not
to disappoint me or send me back
with empty hands...
As I said before,
I was completely ignorant regarding the
religion of Allah, so I went to
the scholars there and asked them to
guide me to the little books and
supplications that can be easy to
read..
They adviced me to read
as much as I can from the Quran..
They have also adviced me to make
a lot of "Tadhalloo" from Zamzam
water (Tadhalloo: is to drink a
lot of water until the water reaches your
ribs)... They have
also
adviced me to mention Allah's name a lot and make Salawat
on
the prophet SAW. In Allah's holy place I felt very peaceful and
relieved..
I asked my
husband to allow me to not go back to the hotel and
stay in the
"Haram" all the time (the holy mosque).. He gave me his
permission to stay
there..
In the holy mosque, there were some
Egyptian and Turkish sisters
beside me, who saw me crying a lot..
They asked me about the reason..
I told them that I came to
the holy house of Allah and I never thought I
would love it that
much! I
also told them that I have cancer..
They kept beside me
all the time and did not leave me.. they also took the
permission of
their husbands to stay with me at the mosque... During that
time, we
rarely slept.. we ate very
little quantities of food.. but we
drank a lot of "Zamzam" water..
And as the prophet SAW said,
"Zamzam water is for whatever you
drink it for, If you drink it
for the intention of being cured, Allah
SWT shall cure
you..
If you drink it because you are thirsty, Allah shall quench
you out of
thirst..."
etc. and so we didn't feel
hungry.. We kept on doing Tawaf
(going around the Kaaba) continuously..
and read Quran a lot..
This was the way we were day and
night..
When I came to the holy house of God I was very thin, and
the
upper part of my body and my breasts were filled with swells,
blood
and pus... This was because the cancer had completely spread
all
through the upper part of my chest...so the sisters kept
on
begging me to wash the upper part of my body with Zamzam
water.. but I
was very afraid to even touch it..
I was afraid to remember my
sickness, because then that sickness
shall occupy my thoughts instead of
remembering Allah and
worshipping Him in complete submission.... hence
I was always
washing my body without touching the part affected
by cancer..
On the fifth day, my friends insisted that I should go over
my
whole body with Zamzam water.. at the beginning I
refused..
but I felt something forcing me to do it!
I
slowly started trying to go through the parts I always avoided,
over my
chest.. but I became frightened again... then I felt
this thing
forcing me again.. I hesitated... and on the
third turn, I forced
my hand to the upper part of my body and finally
went over my
breasts!
Something unbelievable happened..there were no swells..
no
blood.. no pus!!!
I couldn't believe what I felt.. I went over my
breasts with my
hand again, and it was true! Yes that was true!..
I
shivered!! But I remembered that Allah SWT is capable of
doing
anything whatso ever.... I asked one of my friends to
touch
my body with her hand and look for the
swells.. she
did! ..and they all automatically shouted: Allahu
Akbar.. Allahu
Akbar!!
I ran to my husband in the hotel... When I saw him, I tore
my
shirt up and said: "look at Allah's Mercy!" I told him of
what
happened and he couldn't believe it!!.. He cried and
cried..
He said: "Do you know that the doctors swore that you
shall
die within a period of three weeks only"?
I said:
all fate is within the Hands and Will of Allah
(Praised be He), no one knows
what the future holds except Him SWT..
We stayed in the holy house of Allah
for one week, I thanked Him
for His un-countable Graces.. Then we
went to the prophet's
mosque in Medina.. then we traveled to
France..
There, the doctors were confused and surprised..they
nearly became
crazy!!
"Are you the same person?!", they asked
me.. I was very proud
to say: YESS!! .. and this is my husband..
we have returned to
God..and I now fear nothing but Allah
SWT..The fate is from Him
SWT.... They told me that
mine is a very strange case..
they said they want to examine me
again..
They did it again, and they found... nothing!
Before, I could
hardly breath because of the swells.. but when I went to
Allah's
holy place and asked Him to cure me, the cancer has all
gone...
I looked for the "seerah" (biography) of the prophet SAW and
his
companions (may Allah be pleased with them).. I read them and
I
cried a lot.. I cried, as I was regretting all what I have
missed
in my past life.. I missed the love of Allah and
His
prophet...a humble slave of My Lord, who should
have Loved Allah with
all my soul, had spent my love, for all these
years, on meaningless things of
this world.... I cried for the time
I have wasted away from
Allah SWT, my Creator..... time which we
should all spend worshipping Allah
whilst loving Him
truly, and loving the Messenger by following His Noble
Example, his
Sunnah and the Hadiths...
I ask Allah to forgive me, my
husband and all Muslims... and to
accept me as His sincere
worshipper....
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