The path of Islam ✨

- The boy who tried to escape death (2)

All praise is due to Allah, The Most Beneficent and The Most Merciful. We praise Him, and    seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of    ourselves and the mischief of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides cannot be misguided and whomsoever Allah misguides cannot be guided. Peace  and   blessings be upon the final messenger, Muhammad (SAW), upon his family and his noble companions

- Ameen. 🍃

Ahmad's Father, Muhammad, sat at the breakfast table, eyes staring down, watching the steam from his hot tea rising up into the air. Ahmad's mother, Aliyah, approached Muhammad and sat next to him.

"My beloved husband, what makes you sad?"

He turned to his wife and replied. "It is Ahmad. I wept for him. I've always had a hard life and never had the life of a proper child. I was brought up in sin and wasted so many years of my life in which I could have spent in my worship for Allah. All I ever wanted is to have a son who'd worship Allah at a early age so that I could at least feel like I've replaced what I have lost. And on The Day of Judgment I'd walk towards my Lord holding hands with my son and smiling to Allah to show to The Most High, my pious son whom I have brought into this World with the permission of Allah."

Muhammad looked at his wife. "But look what we have done! We have all turned towards Allah but our son is lagging behind! What if he dies now and goes to Hell?" Ahmad's father said.

"Would I be able to live with that burden on my shoulders?" Ahmad's father suddenly burst into tears. "My son, .. my son ..."

Ahmad's mother herself couldn't hold back the tears and both husband and wife comforted each other ...

Two more days have already passed and Ahmad has only seven days to live.

Ahmad lay on his bed, headphones in his ears listening to music, magazine in his hand, eyes focusing on shameless pictures.

Hours pass. The sun begins to set. Ahmad jumps off the bed and prepares himself for the night out with his friends. He runs downstairs and is immediately confronted by his mother who is blocking the front door.

"Mum! What are you doing?!"

"I am stopping you from leaving the house! It is almost 9:00PM and we are about to have dinner altogether!"

"What? I made a promise to Mo that I will meet up with him tonight!" Ahmad screamed.

"It is late and we need to eat dinner. How come your brothers and sister are so obedient and not you?"

"Because I have a life and they don't!"

"How dare you? They worship Allah; they are doing well in their life...Look at you Ahmad! Can't you see what you are doing to yourself?!"

"Move!" Ahmad screamed as he moved forward towards his mother.

With his elbow, he knocked into his mother pushing her over. She fell to the side knocking her shoulder against the wall.

"Ya Allah forgive my son, forgive me son!" 'Aliyah burst into tears holding her shoulder.

Ahmad's father ran towards the front door to comfort his wife. Before he could say anything to Ahmad, he had already run down the street towards his friends. Ahmad's father sat down holding his wife in his arms who had already collapsed from the pain and sadness of what her own son had done to her.

'Aliyah stared straight into Muhammad's eyes, tears rolling down her cheeks, eyes red with pain.

"Why? Why? I could die to save my son for the sake of Allah. He is a part of me and a son whom I love. What he has done to me hurt me deeply. I love him ya Allah! Guide him and protect him..." 'Aliyah again burst into tears.

Ahmad's father didn't respond as his heart was into pieces.

Little did Ahmad know that in Islam whoever harms their mother, Allah sends punishment straight away upon them...

Ahmad ran down the road towards his friend Mo.

"Yo Ahmad! Where were you?!" Mo called out as Ahmad ran towards him.

"Ah! It's my parents again! They filled my ears again with all that religious rubbish."

"Haha! Don't they have a life? I mean, Allah says He is forgiving, so as long as we believe in Him we will all go to Paradise as long as we don't harm other people!" Mo spoke without knowledge.

Mo and Ahmad continued down the road towards the local nightclub they usually attend.

Little did they know that a police chase was actually taking place just a few minutes' drive away from where Mo and Ahmad were!

Five police cars continued to pursue a stolen car that headed directly towards the road Mo and Ahmad were heading. As Mo and Ahmad joked along the road they heard the sound of several sirens heading towards them.

One hundred meters away from the two, the stolen car traveling at 40mph lost control and smashed into a parked car, skidded to the other side of the road towards Mo and Ahmad ...

Mo screamed as he jumped out of the way while Ahmad hesitated. The car kept on skidding towards the two and only managed to knock Ahmad with its side, thumping him with enough force a couple of yards down the road. The side of Ahmad's body collided with a brick ball and he lay motionless on the ground. Mo screamed as he ran towards his best friend.

"Oh my God! Don't die on me!" Mo screamed in panic as he tried shaking his body.

Police officers ran towards Mo and pulled him away afraid of him causing more harm on the motionless body of Ahmad.

A few Police officers attended Ahmad while a few others arrested and restrained the criminal.

Mo ran towards Ahmad's house in a panic. He ran up to the house and frantically hammered on the front door.

Ahmad's father opened the door in confusion.

"Mo? What happened?!" Ahmad's father said in a worry.

"It's Ahmad! He's had an accident!" Mo screamed out, almost out of breath.

"Bring me to him" Ahmad's father said as he quickly put his shoes on. Ahmad's mother also followed.

Ahmad's father and Mo approached Ahmad, and this time he was surrounded by a couple of paramedics.

"Is he going to be alright?!" Ahmad's father asked one paramedic.

"He is unconscious right now and is suffering from a dislocated shoulder. We need to get him quickly as possible to the hospital to give him an urgent brain scan to see for any damage or clots to the brain."

Tears rolled down Ahmad's father's cheeks.

Ahmad's father and mother approached the ambulance in which Ahmad's unconsciousness body on a stretcher was in.

"I want to come!" Mo called out to Ahmad's father.

"No. Just go home and ponder on what has happened tonight and think to yourself why this has happened!" He answered rudely.

The ambulance doors were shut by one of the paramedics, and the ambulance then proceeded to head quickly towards the hospital transporting Ahmad and his worried parents.

Mo stood there, listening to the sirens fade away in the distance, watching police detectives investigate the scene of the accident.

As everything got quiet, Mo didn't go home but headed towards the nightclub where he and Ahmad were planning to go all along.

"...Why should I bore myself at home? No one is going to stop me from enjoying this night I had already planned with poor Ahmad..." Mo thought to himself as he headed towards the nightclub ...