Waleed Basyouni – The DuA Of The Chinese Revert
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A woman describes a cemetery where she lost her mom while traveling to Oklahoma. She describes the story of her mother, who is a new-ugsher American woman and her sister's (an old-ugsher Muslim woman) mother. The two women discuss the cost of burying the mother in the cemetery and express their desire to reserve the grave for their children.
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I was at the city in Oklahoma.
They have a cemetery, mashallah, a nice good
Muslim cemetery.
Five years fighting with the government to get
a permit to to bury people according to
the way of the sharia.
They win the case on Monday, Tuesday or
Wednesday.
He got a phone call.
Sounds like a white lady calling him saying,
hey, my mom passed away and we need
to bury her in your cemetery.
So it's not ready yet.
Sorry to ask, are you Muslim?
Because from the conversation he can he said
either she's very, very new Muslim or she's
not a Muslim.
He said, I'm not.
OK, what about your mom?
She said, yes, she is.
OK, you can come to my to the
mess and I will meet you.
So the imam met her and he found
out that her mom is Chinese American.
And basically her mom came from China and
she arrived last week.
And she's an old woman.
She left her husband because her husband left
Islam.
So she now stays a Muslim.
And her husband stayed in America and he
kept the kids.
So they raised Christian or whatever religion that
they have.
And the mom returned back to China.
But, you know, she wants her mom to
visit.
So she brought her for a visit.
And when she arrived, she said, my mom
went to the yellow book in the airport
and she took the yellow book.
And she looked in the Islamic Center.
She even ripped the paper out of the
yellow book.
Oh, and she told her daughter, if anything
happened to me here, these are my brothers.
I said, Mom, what do you mean?
So just that, you know, said I took
it like I didn't care for her.
Maybe she's tired from the long trip.
She'd spend the first night.
Second night, she died while she is in
her bed.
So the sheikh said, I will bury her
in the cemetery.
Even if it's not really, I will make
it happen.
The first grave in that cemetery, Khutbah al
-Jum'ah.
He mentioned the story to the people.
Everybody prayed Jum'ah that day, almost followed
her janazah.
Then the family were shocked.
And they said to him, why?
Who are all those people?
They said, those are her brothers.
She said, my brothers, those were brothers.
They were in tears.
Then after she was buried, he handed him
a piece of paper.
She said, that's my mom's favorite prayer.
Can you make it?
She said, Dr. Ahmed, he told me.
And I looked at it and I started
crying.
Daughter and the son and like her husband,
ex-husband came.
He said to him, what is in it?
And she said, Subhanallah, she wrote in a
broken Arabic letter.
Yeah.
And it says, Ya Allah, guide my kids.
Guide my children.
That's her favorite prayer.
And I told her that.
Her son accepted Islam in that moment.
Before we left the grave, he became Muslim.
Her husband said, I want to reserve, her
ex-husband said, I want to reserve the
grave next to her.
How much did it cost?
So the imam said, the cost of that
grave is la ilaha illallah.
And he said, ash hadu an la ilaha
illallah wa anna Muhammadan rasulallah.
Both became Muslim on the spot.