Tamara Gray – Donuts For Eid

Years ago, maybe eight years ago. Now, I was getting donuts for the

family for aid, and I went to this donut shop, and I was doing the

Salawat Brahimi, and I went in the donut shop, and after I ordered so

many donuts, they said cash only, and I was like, Oh my God, I

didn't have cash. There was an ATM machine down the road, so I pulled

out, I had, I had pulled out my my debit card to pay when they told

me no cash only. And so as I was gathering myself to go and get

this from the ATM, a woman walked in,

and she said, I'll get your donuts. And I said, No, no, you

don't know how many donuts I got. I didn't just get one donut. I got

a whole bunch of donuts. She said, Oh, I'll get them. And she

literally got all of my donuts, and then didn't have enough money

to buy herself her own donut.

And so someone had come with her, who bought her a donut and

swallowed up as I when I went to the car and sat down to complete

my

salah. Salawat Ibrahimi, it occurred to me the the beauty of

what we're saying when we say in every prayer of what we are

saying. Allah musaldi, Allah Sayyidina, Ibrahim, WA Allah Ali

Ibrahim, who is the family of Ibrahim, may Allah svantana Send

him greetings and peace. It is humanity. It is humanity. It is

the people we see every day. As I felt like, wow, Muslims every day,

five day times a day. Whenever we pray, we're literally making dua

for all of the people around us. And on the day of Hajj, we are

reminded of our connection to Ibrahim, alaihi salam, and our

connection to all of the peoples that have come from that line of

the Abrahamic line.