[ Thursday, October 13, 2005 ]
People of the BookI was relieved to get out of lab earlier today so that I would not have to rush to pray Asr salah. As I got into an elevator, another student wearing mostly white entered and pressed the button for the fifth floor. I saw that he was wearing a yarmulke and as I had read the signs for the "chabad" on the fifth floor, I asked curiously, "It's Yom Kippur today, right?"
"Yeah, it's the last day," he replied.
"I saw the signs by the elevator," I explained. "What does 'chabad' mean?"
"Chabad," he responded, pronouncing it like the letter "kha" in Arabic, "is the religious service."
By then the elevator had stopped to my floor.
"I've been fasting for 22 hours," he said, looking tired.
"Yeah, I know how that feels," I replied with a smile. "I'm fasting too."
I couldn't help but think about the parallels of our faiths. We both had our heads covered, were fasting, and were on our way to pray for forgiveness from the same God. Subhan Allah, we all have more in common than we think we do.
6 comments
6 Comments:
That was just beautiful. Alhamdulillah.
i hope he also saw the same meaning in that encounter.
Salams
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Wasalam
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And Eid Greetings! :)
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