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The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 3
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He was yelling and wondered if there was any person who was
going to help him. He was yelling of all the good deeds he had
done, how he had helped his father, his fasts, prayers, the Qur'an
that he read, he was asking if none of them would help him. The
Jahannam angels continued to drag him.
They had gotten closer to the Hellfire. He looked back and these
were his last pleas. Had not Rasulullah [saw] said, "How clean
would a person be who bathes in a river five times a day, so too
does the Salah performed five times cleanse someone of their
sins"?
He began yelling, "My prayers? my prayers? my prayers." The two
angels did not stop, and they came to the edge of the abyss of
Jahannam. The flames of the fire were burning his face. He
looked back one last time, but his eyes were dry of hope and he
had nothing left in him.
One of the angels pushed him in. He found himself in the air and
falling towards the flames. He had just fallen five or six feet when
a hand grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back.
He lifted his head and saw an old man with a long white beard.
He wiped some dust off himself and asked him, "Who are you?"
The old man replied, "I am your prayers". "Why are you so late! I
was almost in the Fire! You rescued me at the last minute before
I fell in". The old man smiled and shook his head, "You always
performed me at the last minute, did you forget?"
At that instant, he blinked and lifted his head from Sajdah. He
was in a sweat. He listened to the voices coming from outside.
He heard the adhan for Salat-ul Isha. He got up quickly and went
to perform Wudhu.
Pass this on to your friends and family... maybe you can help
someone open their eyes. And who knows? Maybe this is a good
deed that can help you during the day of judgment.
Atif
Miami, Florida
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disposed of in the proper Islamic manner.
ABBREVIATIONS USED
SWT - Subhanahu wa ta’ala (Allah is pure of having partners &He is exalted from having a son)
PBUH; SAW; AS - Peace Be Upon Him,
R.A.; R.A.A. - Allah was pleased with him/her
B, M, T, AD - Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawoud, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah are the names
of the transmiters of the Prophet’s (SAW) Hadith and Sunnah (words and lifestyle.)
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to
pay his way through school, found he had only one dime left, and
he was hungry.
He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened
the door. Instead of a meal, he asked for a drink
of water. She thought he looked hungry so she
brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it
slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe
you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she
replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept
pay for a kindness.” He said..... “Then I thank
you from my heart.”
As this boy, Howard Kelly, left that house, he not
only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was
stronger also. Until that moment, he had been ready to give up
and quit.
Many years later that young woman became critically ill. The
local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city,
where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Howard
Kelly, who was now a doctor, was called in for the consultation.
When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange
light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall
to the hospital room. Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to
see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the
consultation room determined to do his best to save her life.
From that day, he gave special attention to the case. After a long
struggle, the battle was won.
Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to
him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the
edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it,
for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all.
Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the
side of the bill. She read these words..... “Paid in full with one
glass of milk”
Signed, Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her
happy heart prayed: “Thank You, God, that Your love has spread
abroad through human hearts and hands.”
Dr. Howard Kelly was a distinguished physician who, in 1895,
founded the Johns Hopkins Division of Gynecologic Oncology at
Johns Hopkins University. According to Dr. Kelly’s biographer,
Audrey Davis, the doctor was on a walking trip through Northern
Pennsylvania one spring day when he stopped by a farm house
for a drink of water.
Many thanks to Andrew Harrison, the Processing Archivist and
Fine Arts Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions,
for help with this story.
PAID IN FULL WITH ONE GLASS OF MILK
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