Do not put off a good that you intended to do

[Homer76]

A man woke up early in order to pray the Fajr prayer in the masjid. He got dressed, made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid. On his way to the masjid, the man fell and his clothes got dirty. He got up, brushed himself off, and headed home. At home, he changed his clothes, made his ablution, and was, again, on his way to the masjid.

On his way to the masjid, he fell again and at the same spot! He, again, got up, brushed himself off and headed home. At home he, once again, changed his clothes, made his ablution and was on his way to the masjid.

On his way to the masjid, he met a man holding a lamp. He asked the man of his identity and the man replied 'I saw you fall twice on your way to the masjid, so I brought a lamp so I can light your way.'


The first man thanked him profusively and the two where on their way to the masjid. Once at the masjid, the first man asked the man with the lamp to come in and pray Fajr with him. The second man refused. The first man asked him a couple more times and, again, the answer was the same. The first man asked him why he did not wish to come in and pray.The man replied 'I am Satan.

'The man was shocked at this reply. Satan went on to explain, 'I saw you on your way to the masjid and it was I who made you fall. When you went home, cleaned yourself and went back on your way to the masjid, Allah forgave all of your sins. I made you fall a second time, and even that did not encourage you to stay home, but rather, you went back on your way to the masjid. Because of that, Allah forgave all the sins of the people of your household. I was afraid if i made you fall one more time, then Allah will forgive the sins of the people of your village, so i made sure that you reached the masjid safely.'

So do not let Satan benefit from his actions. Do not put off a good that you intended to do as you never know how much reward you might recieve from the hardships you encounter while trying to achieve that good.

[Homer76]

Any one got a source where this story comes from?

[Ramsey]

Not a clue,. but I've come across forums in which people actually treated it as an authentic story. When it's most probably just a nice little story a decade old. Somebody wrote it, send it out and it spread.

I say treat it as a nice little story unless we find out something new.

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On second thought this story has a few peculiarities.

1) I don't recall falling down being a valid reason for loosing ones wudu. In fact I looked up a list of things on the internet:


1. Discharging urine; faeces, or any other matter from these passages; (advance topics)
2. Passing stomach gases from the back;
3. Flow of blood, or pus from any part of the body;
4. Mouthful-vomiting;
5. To fall asleep, while lying down, or when leaning against some thing;
6. Fainting due to illness, or for any other reason;
7. Going mad; insane
8. Laughing aloud in Prayers (Salat)

So my first question is: why did he wash himself three times?

2) Don't mosques usually have somewhere where you can wash yourself? If this man has some kind of problem that requires him to perform multiple ablutions just to make it through his prayers then he might as well make them at the mosque. Obviously the journey is too long for him to make it without losing his wudu.

3) How early did this man wake up? Apparently he wakes up so early that he can make ablution, start his journey, fall, go home, make ablution and change his clothes, go on his journey again, fall, go home, make ablution and change his clothes yet AGAIN, go on his journey and STILL make it in time for Fajr prayers.

This man should clearly write a book on time management.

[Homer76]

Well I naturally asumed that his clothes got dirty that is why he went home and changed.

8. Laughing aloud in Prayers (Salat)

Laughing will invalidate wudu and your prayer?

[Osman]

This is a very good story. A good reminder. :)

[Ramsey]

Well I naturally asumed that his clothes got dirty that is why he went home and changed.

8. Laughing aloud in Prayers (Salat)

Laughing will invalidate wudu and your prayer?

But that still doesn't explain why he lost his wudu.

And I didn't think it up, I just quoted it.

[Sadiq_b]

Good story. I understand there might be logical fallacies, but come on, whatever is the source the intention was to pass a message that do not let things happening put you off from whatever good you intended to do. And I feel that is a wonderful message to give.

The message is very true in our lives. I remember in Ramzan I had decided to visit a particular place and donate some amount from my zakaah to some poor people who were there. Since I had to make some extra effort in getting to that place, I kept putting that off for later and eventually (and unfortunately) the month of Ramzan passed and I couldn't donate the zakaat amount there. If only I didn't keep putting it off :(

[Peace]

Ramsey how do you loose wadu if your are bleeding
never heard that one

How badly should you be wounded as to say that you have broken your Wudu ?

If you get a cut and you are bleeding don't you have wudu ?

[Ron]

I'd like to consider each one by one:

1. Discharging urine; faeces, or any other matter from these passages; (advance topics)
This is well known and no arguments there.

2. Passing stomach gases from the back;
This too is well known.

3. Flow of blood, or pus from any part of the body;
This was related to fasting. By some standards if someone loses too much blood they cannot fast. As for wudu, it is my understanding that that's not correct.

4. Mouthful-vomiting;
Again, not for wudu.

5. To fall asleep, while lying down, or when leaning against some thing;
The point of this is that you may lose enough consciousness that you pass wind. That's my understanding. So if you doze off it may not take effect but if you fall totally asleep, in any position, then you should perform the wudu.

6. Fainting due to illness, or for any other reason;
Again, has to do with losing consciousness as in the above.

7. Going mad; insane
This does not negate wudu. It affects your thinking to the point where religious matters are not the issue.

8. Laughing aloud in Prayers (Salat)
Laughing does not negate wudu. I don't know why anyone would laugh but one should try to recompose themselves or stop the prayer totally get themselves in the proper state of mind and then pray.

Regards

[Ramsey]

Ramsey how do you loose wadu if your are bleeding
never heard that one

How badly should you be wounded as to say that you have broken your Wudu ?

If you get a cut and you are bleeding don't you have wudu ?

As I said before, I didn't make that list. Actually I just entered some words into google and took the biggest list I could find in ten seconds.

You can ask the people at the original site though if you want.

http://www.as-sidq.org/ghusul.htm

[Peace]

Asslamalikum to both Ramsey and Ron

once again thanks to Ron
To Ramesy , Ah shouldn't you done some reasearch first ? :p

[Ramsey]

Asslamalikum to both Ramsey and Ron

once again thanks to Ron
To Ramesy , Ah shouldn't you done some reasearch first ? :p

Oh my research is usually quite good, even when done from memory. But that post had to be done fast or probably wouldn't

In any case my points still stand, the man did nothing in the story that would make him lose his wudu. The story doesn't seem very plausible and therefore probably never happened.

But as a moral (but fictional) tale it isn't too bad.