Ramadhan Day 12.

Salaams all. I've got 2 stories for ya! It's about "The Athiest Teacher" & "The Man and The Cocoon".

The Athiest Teacher.

A young woman teacher, with obvious liberal tendecies, explains to her class of small children that she is an athiest. She asks her class if they're athiests too. Not really knowing what anthiesm is but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks. There is, however, one exception. A beautiful girl named Zainab has not gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different. "Because I'm not an athiest."

Then, asks the teacher, "What are you?" "I'm a Muslim." The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Zainab why she is a Muslim. "Well, I was brought up knowing and loving God. My mum is a Muslim, and my dad is a Muslim, so I am a Muslim."
The teacher is now angry. "That's no reason!" she says loudly, "What if your mum was a moron, and your dad was a moron, - what would you be then?"

She paused, and smiled. "Then..." says Zainab, "I'd be an athiest."


The Man and The Cocoon

A man found a cocoon of a butterly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.

The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would grow and expand to be able to support the body, which would eventually become smaller.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Allah's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If Allah allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.

We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never "fly"!

I asked for Strength...
And Allah gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom...
And Allah gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity...
And Allah gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage...
And Allah gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love...
And Allah gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favours...
And Allah gave me Oppurtunities.

I recieved nothing I wanted...
And Allah gave me Everything I needed!

"So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators!" [Surah 23: Ayah 14]

~Peace.