Maryam Amir – A miraculous marriage story

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The transcript describes a personal story about Gaudi Abu Bakr, a powerful man in Islam who claims to have been in Mecca and sold books to get food. He found jewels inside a bag and eventually found them. The story describes a woman who found a beast in her necklace and eventually led her to return to Spain, where she found a woman who had been praying for her daughter. The woman eventually became a fundraiser forraiser families of people who are evacuating from Iran.

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			If you need one of those stories
on how dua was answered for
		
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			marriage, listen to this personal
narrative of Gaudi Abu Bakr, huge
		
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			scholar in Islam. He said that he
was in Mecca. He was very
		
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			impoverished at this time, so he
goes in front of the Kaaba, and he
		
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			makes dua for provision. He stops
making dua, and he goes and finds
		
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			a bag on the floor, and inside of
this bag are jewels. He's like,
		
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			I'm not going to keep jewels as
desperately as he needs it. He
		
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			doesn't even have money for food.
He sold his books so he could be
		
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			able to eat. He looks around Mecca
and finds an older man speaking
		
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			about jewels he had lost, and he
confirms that these are for the
		
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			older man. The older man wants to
pay him a large sum, and he's
		
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			like, No, I can't accept any
money. All I did was return what
		
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			belongs to you. Years pass and
called the Abu Bakr receives a
		
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			position in Cordova. This is when
Muslims ruled Spain, and so he
		
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			goes on a boat from Jeddah,
leaving to Spain. Couple days in,
		
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			there's a huge storm. The ship is
wrecked, and he wakes up after
		
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			holding onto driftwood on a beach,
and finds out he's in Yemen.
		
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			There's a group of people who take
care of him, nurse him back to
		
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			health. And while he's in Yemen,
he starts reciting Quran. People
		
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			hear his beautiful recitation, and
he starts leading Salah teaching
		
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			of Quran. And eventually, they ask
him if he could be the Imam of
		
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			their community, because the Imam
whom they loved so much had passed
		
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			away the year before. And he
explains that that's how he ended
		
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			up in Yemen instead of Spain. He
settles there. And then an elder
		
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			in the community goes to him and
says that the imam from before has
		
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			a daughter whom was entrusted to
him to help her find a very good
		
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			spouse. So with her acceptance and
the acceptance of Gaudi Abu Bakar,
		
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			they meet, and she is wearing a
necklace. And he says, Where did
		
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			you get that jeweled necklace
from? It was the same jeweled
		
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			necklace he had found in Mecca
years before. So the elder says
		
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			that this has a very interesting
story. Her father was the Imam of
		
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			this Masjid. He went to Mecca. He
lost them, and a very righteous
		
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			man returned to them. He refused
to take any payment for it. And
		
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			the father, the Imam had been
praying for and intending to go to
		
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			Mecca with his daughter, because
they wanted to look for that man
		
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			again to see if he was available
and interested in marrying his
		
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			daughter, because the Imam wanted
someone so righteous and so honest
		
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			for his daughter. And then the
elder says that he's so glad he
		
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			was able to facilitate for a man
of similar qualities that the Imam
		
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			had been praying for for his
daughter. And that's when Claudia
		
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			Abu Bakr said, I am that man. PS,
right now, I am fundraising for
		
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			Palestinian families who I know
personally who are evacuating.
		
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			There's a link in my bio. If each
one of us gives 20 or $100 we can
		
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			literally, Inshallah, help
evacuate an entire family. These
		
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			are links with family members here
in the United States, people that
		
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			I know personally whose families
are trying to evacuate. Police
		
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			support.