In this video, with tears in their eyes, a visitor stands inside the blessed cave of Ghar Thawr, the very place where the Prophet ﷺ sought refuge during the Hijrah.
This is Ustadh Shafiq Zaman from Pakistan. For as long as he could remember, he had one wish — to be able to paint even one panel on the walls of Masjid an-Nabawi. In 1990, he entered a competition in the Hijaz to restore 133-year-old calligraphy on the old structure of the mosque and create new designs for new structures added to the building.
He won the competition and has been working in Masjid al-Nabawi for the last 30 years. He is the blessed man whose calligraphy is used on the blessed rawda of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. This is a matter of pride and happiness for those of us who descend from the Subcontinent. May Allah bless him immensely.
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He is even getting replies from the fucking owners.
Rizq is of two kinds:
Kasbi: what comes through effort
Wahbi: what comes as a gift
You can do everything right and still not have it and someone else can have it without doing anything right.
Why did Allah seal their Ears?
The People of the Cave slept for 309 years.
To make that possible, Allah could have stopped their hearts.
He could have stopped their hunger.
But the first thing He mentions is their Ears.
Why?