Love For the Sake of Allah (s.w.t)

Quran For All - In Every Hand, In Every Heart.

"Love For the Sake of Allah (s.w.t)" by Unknown

I had last night what I call one of my 'wow' moments of Ramadan.
As we started to make the suff for esha salah at our masjid, and I, concentrating only on joining feet to feet and shoulder to shoulder, was taking my place next to this lady, she turned around, looked me full in the face with a beautiful big organic smile, eyes shining, and said: 'Sister, I love you!'

For a second there I was totally nonplussed, as my automatic response system searched frantically for the correct Arabic reply to this taught by the Prophet saw....the imam was reaching the end of his iqama...the sister was still smiling at me expectantly....(my mind was racing: Did she know me? Did she recognize me from somewhere? Did it matter??!!!)

Then Alhamdulillah some good instinct kicked in...my arm went round her shoulders to give her a warm squeeze and I was able to mumble something about loving each other for the sake of Allah, and Allah accepting all our good deeds and intentions in this blessed month, on this powerful night.....hoping my gesture would convey what I couldn't put in words very coherently.....phew!!!