It\u2019s the little things that people do, that have others praying for them, without them even realizing, and may be the reason they enter Paradise.<\/p>\n
While we were sitting in the Haram in Makkah, on the third floor, I noticed people fidgeting in front of me, and then slowly I noticed the crowds flicking a large cockroach or cricket-type bug around.\u00a0 When you\u2019re sitting in a crowd of a million, there\u2019s no place for this insect to go but onto another person.\u00a0 And so it got dangerously near me.\u00a0 And though I don\u2019t have a fear of insects, this one was pretty large, and I had no tissues on me to pick it up with.\u00a0 So I ignored it, moved my feet and prayer rug around, and let it go on its merry way, bothering some other hajji.<\/p>\n
A few seconds later, a young man came and picked up this insect with his own bare hands, to dispose of it God knows where.\u00a0 All I could do was pray for him.\u00a0 He had just saved one million other hajjis from discomfort; had helped save their concentration for prayer.\u00a0 May Allah reward him greatly.\u00a0 He did us all a favor and removed harm from his fellow Muslim\u2019s path.<\/p>\n
The Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said,<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce, a man saw the branch of a tree in the middle of a road. So, he said, \u2018By Allah, I will remove this from the path of the Muslims so they may not be hurt. \u2018 For this action, he was put in Paradise.\u201d Muslim<\/p>\n
Fatima Abdallah<\/p>\n
Fatima lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two daughters.\u00a0 She is currently a full-time mother and part-time youth worker with MAS Youth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s the little things that people do, that have others praying for them, without them even realizing, and may be the reason they enter Paradise. While we were sitting in the Haram in Makkah, on the third floor, I noticed people fidgeting in front of me, and then slowly I noticed the crowds flicking a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[416,509,511,1187],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","tag-fatima-abdullah","tag-hajj","tag-hajj-lessons","tag-small-things-people-do"],"yoast_head":"\n