Maryam Amir – A story of hope in duaa

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			If you need hope that Allah answers your
		

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			dua, listen to this.
		

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			I was speaking to my friend this morning.
		

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			She just came back from Umrah and I
		

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			asked her how did it happen because it
		

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			was kind of like seemed like a last
		

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			minute thing and she told me that she
		

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			had actually been in the masjid a few
		

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			weeks ago.
		

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			She listened to beautiful recitation of the imam.
		

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			It touched her heart so much and she's
		

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			been making dua for years to go for
		

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			Umrah.
		

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			She just keeps asking Allah subhanahu wa ta
		

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			'ala to invite her and her family whenever
		

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			is best but in this moment she was
		

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			so moved by the recitation.
		

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			She wanted to be at the house of
		

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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so badly that
		

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			she called out and made dua asking Allah
		

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			to invite her and her family for Umrah
		

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			the next month in October in a particular
		

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			week of October because her kids were off
		

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			school and she also made dua that her
		

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			sister would be blessed with being invited to.
		

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			She goes home, she just sat home and
		

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			a few hours later she gets a text
		

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			message from her sister and her sister says
		

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			would you like to go for Umrah with
		

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			me and she tells her that she wants
		

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			to take care of the Umrah.
		

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			It's going to be here and her sister
		

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			and their families and she asked if she
		

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			can go on that particular week in October
		

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			when their kids are off school so they
		

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			can go together and my friend started crying
		

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			and she told me be bold in your
		

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			dua.
		

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			Be bold in your dua because Allah subhanahu
		

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			wa ta'ala answers and I know right
		

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			now because of and Sudan and so many
		

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			places of his Ummah my car just got
		

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			hit.
		

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			Sometimes you may have said exactly what the
		

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			Qur'an states until the messenger and those
		

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			believers with him said where or when when
		

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			is the victory of Allah and Allah affirms
		

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			that Allah's victory is near and I know
		

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			that sometimes we see what is happening and
		

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			we think where is the answer to dua
		

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			well we don't realize that the dua is
		

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			being answered maybe at a timeline that we
		

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			don't understand but it is our responsibility to
		

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			do the work for Gaza for this Ummah
		

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			and at the same time remember stories like
		

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			this one.
		

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			Allah is listening he is answering so keep
		

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			making dua.
		

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			Have certainty in it for yourself and for
		

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			this Ummah.