A Muslim Wish

Written by Hafsah A
Friday, 05 January 2007

She looks nice. Very polite. Friendly. Open-minded. Genuine. Sincere. Definitely what you’re looking for. Suddenly ideas start whirling in your head… there must be a way to snag this one!!

And of course, there is. You immediately flash a welcoming smile. Your heart swells with as much hope for your newfound acquaintance as a mother’s does for her newborn child. Generosity overrides you. Lavishly, your lips spill babbles of kind, soft words. Mashallah! your mind sputters in disbelief, imagine she was a Muslim too! And so, the seduction begins.
She cracks a joke, although not a funny one.

“Ahahahaha,” you laugh out loud, “that was a good one. Ahaaaa hahaha.” So she doesn’t have the greatest sense of humour, but you muster up a laugh and convince yourself that she’s still a great catch. Besides, her name is Sarah. She won’t even need to change it.

Eventually, after several such graceful encounters, the “I’m a flowery Muslim and look how beautiful Islam really is” notions start to kick in. If she thinks I’m great, you ration, she’ll think Islam is great too.

“You know, the reason I’m nice is ‘cause Islam tells me to be that way. It is, after all, the religion of peace and kindness. Isn’t that something?”

“Wow, I didn’t know that,” she says out loud. To herself she thinks, I’m really liking this Islam thing. Everyone is so nice. I’d like to be around more Muslims more often.

Enter Sister Fatima.
“Ass-,” she’s caught off guard by your dirty look, “salamu Alaikum” she mutters as she quickly escapes your frowning glare. But you don’t hear her mutter; you’ve already heard enough. You whip your glance away, faster than Ben Stiller on the Magnum runway. Astaghfirullah! You think to yourself, This sister seriously needs to clean up her act. Makeup and a hijab?! Astaghfirullah! Jeans? Double astaghfirullah! Talking to a non-mehram? Hopeless! And greeting a fellow Muslim with profanity? It can’t get any worse!! La hawla wala quwata illa billah. What kind of an example is she setting for this Sarah who harbours so much potential? You shake your head.

“What’s wrong?” Sarah asks.
I better let her know that not all of us Muslim girls are like that, you decide.“Nothing. I just wish that some Muslims knew what Islam was really all about. You know, the peace and kindness stuff I was telling you about earlier.”“Oh,” she replies.

Don’t we all?

From: Maniac Muslim
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LOL.
That’s definitely what I needed after a full week of finals and midterms.