Ramadan 2009 : Day 14

Ramadan 2009 : Day 14
Jaihoon’s journal on the Holy Month

I have always wanted to write about this. Perhaps Allah destined it only now. It has happened many times before. And I am sure it would happen again.

In layman term, we call it coincidence. While we all have it in terms of meeting people or other occasions, here I am referring to the Quranic coincidences.

Time and again I come across experiences which are related to the Quran verses or chapters I have just heard, discussed or read myself. Let me explain it in three scenes which happened the same day.

Scene 1

As part of the marathon recitation of the Holy in a bid to finish it during this Holy Month, I had reached the part of Sura Hud. This Sura focuses on the justice and punishment of sin when man runs out of all chances for accepting Allah’s mercy.

Scene 2

I and my favorite Quran tafsir lecturer are on the way to the Friday prayer. We talk about the stress at workplaces and ways to cool the head. Tension does lead to various body reactions, including grey hair. So we contemplated the use of applying oil as a coolant for the head. Besides the fact that is a sunnah of Holy Prophet.

Jaabir bin Samurah (ra) was asked: “Were there any white hair in the mubaarak – blessed head of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihe wasallam)? He replied: ‘He only had a few on the middle path, and when Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihe wasallam) oiled his hair, they did not show’”. (Shamaa-il Tirmidhi)

In this context we also talked about the Hadiths such as below

Abu Juhayfah (ra) says: ‘The people said: “Ya Rasulallah, (Sallallahu alaihe wasallam)! we see the signs of old age beginning to show on you?” Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihe wasallam) replied: “Surah Hud and similar surahs have made me old”. (Shamaa-il Tirmidhi)

Ibn Abbaas (ra) reports: “Abu Bakr Saddique (ra) once said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, you have become old’. (What is the reason? Due to this mild and soft temperament he ought to be young, and also according to his age he should still be young). Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihe wasallam) replied: “The recitation of Surahs Hud, Waaqiah, Mursalat, Amma and Kuwwirah has made me old’”.

Scene 3

We finally reached the masjid. Al hamdu lillah, on time. In the khutba which was about the patience of those who keep fasts, the Imam narrated the same Hadith, “Surah Hud and similar surahs have made me old”.

And it raised my eyebrows again. Another coincidence again.

After reaching home, I was almost on the last line of the poem, I believe in the mirror of love, when my buddy Zubair called me from the city of Prophet, Madina. He was excited to have reached there, again. I was even more excited that he called me at a moment when the subject of my poems was directly related to the place from where he was calling.

For sure, these coincidences are not without the knowledge of Allah.

In fact, I think it is not right to call them coincidences at all. They are like any other event, planned and decided by Allah.

Just that we don’t get their inner meanings.

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