Shadee Elmasry – The Miraculous Story of An Answered Prayer
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So this was an amazing, amazing story. It's widely known in the
Arab countries, because this Imam is apparently widely known. I
don't know him personally. But the when Imams narrate this, they
always say one of our colleagues who's on Egyptian, he's very
popular in Egypt. And they tell the story.
There was a man, an imam in Egypt is a very popular Imam. And he
privately told the story to people that he had a flight
very early in the morning 6am Flight, which means he got to be
in the airport.
Around that time a little bit before 6am. Okay. So he he's far
away. He's like three hours away. So he calls up his friend, and he
has another shift. He says, I know your message. It is literally
right next to the airport. Like can you keep the door open for me?
I'll go in and I'll sleep in the masjid. I'll pray Feds right away,
and then I'll go and I'll be very close to the airport. So he said
fine, no problem. So he tells the people leave the door open for the
shake and leave a light on.
So most masajid in Egypt they close after Aisha
but this man he left the masjid the door open. And the servant
they left the door or the worker in the mosque left the door ajar.
Right meaning open a little bit of the mosque. So the show he has his
dinner, he packs up his bags and he drives all the way up. Or it
takes a cab all the way up. And then he takes and he arrives at at
the masjid. When he goes to the masjid all the lights are off
except for one light in the front of the mosque. And he puts his
bags down and he hears like weeping, crying.
And then he goes up and he sees a regular man sitting right in front
of them
saying, Oh Allah, I don't have anybody else. The operations
tomorrow, I need this money. I have nothing. And he's crying and
crying and crying and he's making dua and he's sometimes lifting his
hands up like this. And sometimes crying and talking in common
Egyptian language, saying, there's nobody else. My mother didn't have
anything. My brothers don't have anything. Nobody wants to lend me
anything. And my wife has to do this surgery, and he's crying and
he's making this drop.
Then he hears the Imam come in. So he stops and he gets up to leave.
Right? And Imam, he says what is this dua that you're praying
Subhanallah you like you broke my heart just hearing you. And he's
weeping. So the man he cleans his face, he's he's he's a, like an
adult. Like, he's not some youth. He's an adult. And he's an older
man.
And he says,
My wife has an surgery tomorrow. It's unnecessary surgery. We keep
delaying it because we don't have the money. And I went, I spent all
night going to look out trying to get loans from everybody trying to
patch together 5000 from you 2000 From you. Nobody will give me a
loan because his job isn't really strong enough. They don't think
they're gonna get paid back. Nobody will give him a loan. He
said then on the way home, I saw the masjid open the door, the
mosque. I said, Okay, maybe this is for me to ask ALLAH SubhanA wa
Tada. So I came in. And I began to ask my Lord,
he said, How much do you need? So the man says, I need 15,400
pounds, 15,400 pounds. So he said, Well, I don't have that kind of
money. But I will leave you to go back to the one who's going to
answer you. So the man goes back and he spends the rest of the
night all in da until Fechin. The Imam sleeps on the side when
everyone starts coming in for so lots of veg and then goes off and
the shape of the mosque comes in. He insists that his guests lead
the prayer. So he leaves the prayer now in this in this masjid,
the prayer is actually there's a little loudspeaker. So the
apartment building next door can all hear the prayer.
And he's a famous Imam. So he's praying. And if he prays a long
prayer, because February should be pretty long period to make sure
that people would come down.
He turns around after the Salah, and he sees a man get up right
away and start approaching him that man, it looks like a very
rich guy like with a scarf, polished, really clean looking
guy. And he's smiling and he's so happy. He's like, I watch you
every day on TV. And we listened to your Quran and I couldn't
believe that you're reciting in our Masjid. He said, Yeah, it was
a coincidence as Subhanallah that I had to take an airport a flight
and this semester is right next to the airport. So I spent the night
here in the masjid and
And he made me pray. So that's why I'm here. He then says that, like,
what can I do for you? Right? And he's he just talks about himself I
own factories, anything you need you have any. And you know, most
mache, they have these initiatives. They got initiative.
They feed the poor, they have students, he's whatever you need
your students need money. Your institution needs money. You just
tell me what you need. So he's a No, everything's good. hummed it
up. But thank you so much, and we will keep in touch.
As the man is leaving, he remembers the other men is oh,
wait, hold on, hold on a second. He said,
I do have a need for you. There is somebody I came today I found him
praying, we crying his eyes out. He needs money. He said, Okay,
well, subhanAllah, my wife just today, as I was coming down, she
had
compiled this hiccup, and she said unload the Zika because we don't
want this to get in our house unloaded all today. So I have a
bag of Zika. He said, Okay, good. How much is it? So he says, It's
15,400 pounds. Now the sheriff at this time, he can't believe what
he's seeing. And he his eyes start to swell up and he starts to just
ease in shock. He calls he looks for them. And he's like, Oh, I
hope the men didn't leave. He finally found the poor man. He
says, Come Come quick.
And then he says in front of the rich man. He says to the poor man,
tell me what happened tonight. He said, Well, as you know, I was
looking for these loans. I couldn't get a loan. My wife
surgery is today at 9am.
And I saw the mustard door open. I came in and I just begged to Allah
for help. He said How much do you need? He said, as I told you
15,400 pounds. Now the Richmond began to to weep. He couldn't
believe what he's hearing. Right. And he's like this is HCA had been
piling up because I wanted to give it to one person who was in dire
need. Allah's my witness every he says, Every year we give this a
kettle as it comes in, like whatever money we just give out
envelopes to the people downstairs. And he said, This time
around, I wanted to give out the Zika to one person who was in dire
need. So I kept compiling it up in a drawer.
And this time around this morning, my wife said, if you're gonna go
out, take this money with you. I don't want this much money in the
house as it cuts. It's not it has to be given up. So she made me
take it today. And I will usually he just like, I usually don't pray
in the masjid. But when I heard your recitation, I wanted to come
and meet you myself. That's why I'm here.
So he said, subhanAllah, the Indus men, Allah has driven three
people. He drove him, the Imam himself made him to come to the
mosque and spend the night there, the rich man to hear the
recitation come down to the mosque and the wife of the rich man to to
something moved inside of her that she does not want this account
anymore. Right? She doesn't want this to get in the house anymore.
Unloaded today.
All three of them were crying. Right? And they couldn't believe
what they were seeing. They're seeing the job of Allah right in
front of them.
And now the entire message is watching at this point. And the
poor man, he just breaks out. And he starts saying,
My Lord, I love you. I love you. And he starts screaming, he has
the money in his hand. Now he's I love you. And he starts
he's losing his mind.
But that's what it's like when Allah Tada, answer somebody. It's
literally people say, Why don't we see miracles? We do all the time.
Right? This stuff is happens all the time. If you got your eyes
open, and you're either yourself or an a person and da, you're a
person of DA or you know people who are people have.
And when we say da it has to be, there's really no difference
between emotion.
A spirituality and emotion cannot be separated. You could be an
emotional person, but not it has nothing to do with spirituality or
Dean.
But you cannot possibly be a spiritual person and have nothing
to do with emotion.
That's the difference. You can be an emotional person has nothing to
do with, with with Islam or Dean, but you the other way can't be and
the stronger the emotion in the dot meaning the desperation, the
need the desire, and the brokenness, the faster that you
job.
And I've heard some of the iodsa one tear, what does the job with
Allah subhanaw That's his mercy. His compassion is that one tear
will do the job.