A lovely story my aunt told me

[~Unity~]

My aunt told me a story of this woman. She was 18 living in Somalia and she had this dream that she married a man with no legs. She woke up and thought nothing of the dream. 20 years later now living in England, her best friend as a living works at the local masjid and speaks for the Sisters interested in marriage. One day she told her friend (the one who had the dream) that a man from Saudi Arabia has just arrived in London from Afghanistan fighting and as a consequence lost both of his legs. Her friend then replied that this was the man of her dreams 20 years ago and said she wanted to marry him. Now they have twin sons, mash allah.

How many of us can honestly marry for deen and taqwa rather than beauty and wealth?

[SisterIslam]

My aunt told me a story of this woman. She was 18 living in Somalia and she had this dream that she married a man with no legs. She woke up and thought nothing of the dream. 20 years later now living in England, her best friend as a living works at the local masjid and speaks for the Sisters interested in marriage. One day she told her friend (the one who had the dream) that a man from Saudi Arabia has just arrived in London from Afghanistan fighting and as a consequence lost both of his legs. Her friend then replied that this was the man of her dreams 20 years ago and said she wanted to marry him. Now they have twin sons, mash allah.

How many of us can honestly marry for deen and taqwa rather than beauty and wealth?

Mashaallah

[miss-islamic]

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L-!Thanks for posting. :)

[Chained_Water]

mashaAllah, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "man of your dreams" :rubeyes:

I heard this story about a young shaykh in Syria who really wanted to marry a woman so he asked his own shaykhs to come and make the proposal on his behalf to this womans father. So they went to the womans house, and took gifts and it was quite a big thing [as in people knew they'd come to propose] and everyone was :D about it. So the shaykhs ustads asked the girls father for her hand in marriage for the young shaykh and the girls father remained silent :rubeyes:

And the teacher asked what was wrong, why the father wasn't happy with this. The father replied that how could he possibly be happy that they were asking for the younger daughters hand in marriage whilst she has an elder unmarried sister.

[Culturally back then it would have made it very very difficult for the elder one to get married then.. this is still the case in many places.. if the younger ones get married first everyone thinks badly of the elder, wondeirng why not her, she gets seen as a reject].

So the teacher said OK we'll make the proposal for the elder daughter instead.

The young shaykh who had wanted to marry the first woman, sat silently and didn't say anything or object. He had really wanted to marry the other sister, but his teacher made the proposal for the elder, the father agreed it and they settled it and he went along with it.. out of pure respect and obedience for his teacher and trust in Allah, subhanAllah.

He ended up marrying the elder daughter then as his teacher arranged and.. they actually had a very long loving marriage and lived happily ever after :D

I thought it was an amazing story.

Would take one in a million to do that. :nervous:

[SisterIslam]

mashaAllah, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "man of your dreams" :rubeyes:

I heard this story about a young shaykh in Syria who really wanted to marry a woman so he asked his own shaykhs to come and make the proposal on his behalf to this womans father. So they went to the womans house, and took gifts and it was quite a big thing [as in people knew they'd come to propose] and everyone was :D about it. So the shaykhs ustads asked the girls father for her hand in marriage for the young shaykh and the girls father remained silent :rubeyes:

And the teacher asked what was wrong, why the father wasn't happy with this. The father replied that how could he possibly be happy that they were asking for the younger daughters hand in marriage whilst she has an elder unmarried sister.

[Culturally back then it would have made it very very difficult for the elder one to get married then.. this is still the case in many places.. if the younger ones get married first everyone thinks badly of the elder, wondeirng why not her, she gets seen as a reject].

So the teacher said OK we'll make the proposal for the elder daughter instead.

The young shaykh who had wanted to marry the first woman, sat silently and didn't say anything or object. He had really wanted to marry the other sister, but his teacher made the proposal for the elder, the father agreed it and they settled it and he went along with it.. out of pure respect and obedience for his teacher and trust in Allah, subhanAllah.

He ended up marrying the elder daughter then as his teacher arranged and.. they actually had a very long loving marriage and lived happily ever after :D

I thought it was an amazing story.

Would take one in a million to do that. :nervous:

Another beautiful story. It's true isn't it?

[Chained_Water]

Another beautiful story. It's true isn't it?
Yep it's true but I forgot the names of the shaykhs :( :smack:

[Bint Yusuf]

MashAllah beutiful stories. Touched my heart, first one especially.

[Nasibah]

My aunt told me a story of this woman. She was 18 living in Somalia and she had this dream that she married a man with no legs. She woke up and thought nothing of the dream. 20 years later now living in England, her best friend as a living works at the local masjid and speaks for the Sisters interested in marriage. One day she told her friend (the one who had the dream) that a man from Saudi Arabia has just arrived in London from Afghanistan fighting and as a consequence lost both of his legs. Her friend then replied that this was the man of her dreams 20 years ago and said she wanted to marry him. Now they have twin sons, mash allah.

How many of us can honestly marry for deen and taqwa rather than beauty and wealth?

aww! :masha:

[Hello:)]

mash'allah
both stories are beautiful:)

[~Unity~]

gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "man of your dreams"

Yeah exactly!

[evaldo]

The young shaykh who had wanted to marry the first woman, sat silently and didn't say anything or object. He had really wanted to marry the other sister, but his teacher made the proposal for the elder, the father agreed it and they settled it and he went along with it.. out of pure respect and obedience for his teacher and trust in Allah, subhanAllah.

He ended up marrying the elder daughter then as his teacher arranged and.. they actually had a very long loving marriage and lived happily ever after :D

I thought it was an amazing story.

:Yes, one could say, all's well that ends well... But what if they had had a terrible life together, didn't stand each other and, in the end, separated dramatically ? would then this young sheyk have gone to his teacher and held him responsible for all the human suffering involved ?

Logically, it makes sense that people choose each other... we may make errors, but at least we are responsible for our own errors, and can try to learn from them ...

No, in my view arranged marriages don't make much sense, except in very closed, clannish societies.

All the best