{"id":61,"date":"2010-11-27T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/11\/27\/the-passing-of-brother-mokhit-hossein\/"},"modified":"2010-11-27T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T11:16:00","slug":"the-passing-of-brother-mokhit-hossein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2010\/11\/the-passing-of-brother-mokhit-hossein.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of Brother Mokhit Hossein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim<\/p>\n

Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know Mokhit Hossein. \u00a0I never met him. I \u00a0talked to him on the phone a couple of times. \u00a0Usually I keep it pretty short. \u00a0No, brother, my husband is not home, let me give you his cell phone number\u2026. \u00a0But Br. Mokhit was a bit talkative so he would always ask about the family and keep me on the line a couple of minutes. \u00a0I would hang up the phone with a smile on my face thinking of how he must talk peoples\u2019 ears off. \u00a0Now I\u2019m smiling at the memory but close to tears, because I opened up my Facebook page and saw posted on my wall that he had suddenly passed away last night. \u00a0Inna lilahi wa inna ilahi rajiuun.<\/p>\n

My shock was greater than you might think for someone I didn\u2019t know. \u00a0Though I never met him, I already had an idea of his personality. \u00a0He had been developing a friendship with my husband since he moved his family to our area a while back. \u00a0See, Mokhit was no ordinary man. \u00a0He had been a successful businessman up in D.C., but he gave it all up to move out to the country and raise goats. \u00a0Yes, goats. \u00a0He had a small herd on fifty acres, and just yesterday afternoon, after the Friday prayer, he visited my husband at his warehouse to talk business. \u00a0He had crunched the numbers and was wanting to buy more land and expand. \u00a0The ideas enthusiastically poured out of him as he talked with my husband. \u00a0My husband loves this brother, but was on the way to an auction and couldn\u2019t stay to talk. \u00a0He promised they would have to get together soon to talk about business, then he left to go buy and sell. \u00a0I\u2019m sure Mokhit left him with a smile on his face, too.<\/p>\n

After Sherif came home from the auction, we sat and talked. \u00a0He recounted Mokhit\u2019s visit and we laughed about his friend\u2019s tendency to keep talking. \u00a0My husband said he looked so healthy, his hands big and callused from the hard work of raising the goats and running the farm. \u00a0He was impressed by Mokhit\u2019s organizational skills, by the fact that he wasn\u2019t just bogging off with no plan to raise goats and live the country life, but rather he was wanting to make it a successful business and had lined up the tools to make it work. \u00a0He inspired my husband and energized him. \u00a0He could see that Mokhit loved what he was doing.<\/p>\n

So, here we are. \u00a0We slept with kind thoughts of a kind man and woke to the sad realization that his time on earth was only borrowed and that Allah\u2019s Qadr had been fulfilled. \u00a0My heart breaks for his wife and children, but I am heartened by the fact that he was loved by many and inshAllah they will be assisted through this fierce time of grief. \u00a0InshAllah I\u2019ll do what I can for this man I did not know but whom I love fi sabil Allah because he made my husband smile.<\/p>\n

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Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim Salaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah. I didn\u2019t know Mokhit Hossein. \u00a0I never met him. I \u00a0talked to him on the phone a couple of times. \u00a0Usually I keep it pretty short. \u00a0No, brother, my husband is not home, let me give you his cell phone number\u2026. \u00a0But Br. Mokhit was a bit talkative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Passing of Brother Mokhit Hossein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bismillahi Rahmani RahimSalaam Alaikum wa Rahmatullah.I didn't know Mokhit Hossein.  I never met him. 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