The path of truth

Something in their eyes illuminates our lives.. It is true that time changes everything.. It changes the topography of rocks and mountains, so how can it not change the character of people.. Do not despair, no matter what mistakes you make when you decide to repent sincerely. Be honest, you will discover that you are not late and that God’s generosity, greatness, and love will turn your situation around and make you the happiest person.. And in Muslim’s narration (Did you not know that Islam destroys what came before it) meaning it erases sins, sins, and disbelief... There are situations that we have experienced throughout our preaching lives in which we found amazement and amazement.. In 1997, our company was supplying Sony devices for storage media, triantron screens, and digital cameras to the International Dar Al-Handasah Foundation branch in Cairo. At that time, I moved from my job as deputy director of the company to the sales department, which I love, and I had to get new customers, and this is what happened with this giant company, even though they do not like to deal with new suppliers and prefer old suppliers whose credibility has been proven. But when I approached the director of the information department and introduced my company to me, I convinced him. Engineer Ahmed was one of the distinguished engineers in the field of information technology in Egypt - may God have mercy on him. He was a polite expert who loved his work. He understood what he wanted, and with the degree of a complete human being, he realized that I was new in the field, so he would explain to me everything new, especially... The things that our company sells, and the conversation with him might extend to other works and topics, so sitting with him became a pleasure. He would send the assistant engineer to the purchasing department in the adjacent building to approve our quotations and invoices. After several times, he asked me to get to know the director of the purchasing department. She was a tough young person. She was somewhat arrogant and she did not like my appearance because I had a beard and I did not look at her face much, lowering my gaze as much as possible.. (I was surprised when we went to her office even though he was older than her and had an administrative position!?)... She was very pretentious, as my manager said later when I brought him with me to follow up on my clients. He said : (In order to put on very tight jeans, she jumped over the closet to get into it..) Our company, like all agency owners, used to give customers gifts every beginning of the calendar year, such as wall calendars for the calendar year, pens, honorary plaques, and agendas bearing the names of Sony, HP, and Compaq companies. And others.. So I used to give them to her and she distributed them to the departments and whomever she wanted.. But with these gifts, I used to bring the wall results and prayer times for the Hijri year. And booklets on the importance of prayer, fasting, the Qur’an, the virtue of remembrance, and morals and beliefs... taking advantage of Islamic seasons such as the month of Ramadan, the new Hijri year, the Arafat pause, the Battle of Badr, and national stances as well, and that was from my own money, as I was returning from Saudi Arabia at the time with a little money.. This is part of the jurisprudence of calling to God.. to employ the advocacy aspect in the course of your professional life.. I gave her a special book (titled The Mountain of Sins and the Torrent of Forgiveness). Unfortunately, I did not find a copy of it again.. Her manager used to come to her, and he is Lebanese from the poet’s family, the owner of the company. From the first moment he welcomed me and dealt with me with great comfort. Perhaps this helped her trust us. My manager recommended that I go to them once a week because they know what they want and they pay in cash on the spot. Unlike other companies, after a year of dealing, this virtuous lady changed completely and began She wears modest, loose-fitting, covering clothing, prays regularly, and changes her arrogant and aggressive behavior towards me. Glory be to God, the Converter of hearts. This change may not be because of me. Our conversations together were about work only and within simple limits, such as inquiring about the price, the duration of supply, price offers, or searching for a different product. It was in the market and I was helping them with that because one of my friends owned a shipping company in America. He used to bring us fine products, spare parts and accessories that were not available in Egypt, so he was giving her an advantage and preference in her job.. Perhaps my manager and I’s prayers were a helpful factor...!! Her life changed completely for the better, and she was the subject of conversation with everyone around her. She was the daughter of a senior brigadier general in the army and lived an exalted, aristocratic life. She began to sympathize with the workers, sit with them, listen to their problems, and help solve them. She and her colleagues began to pray on time in her office, and entry was forbidden. Before praying for her office, she started attending science lessons in the mosque, but the biggest and most resounding event was like a bomb: her boss converted to Islam, and she was a direct and decisive reason for saving an individual from Hell, and one of her great morals proposed marriage to her, so she accepted, and instead of going to spend her honeymoon in... Europe, which he traveled back and forth at least every week (and to which he would never travel again), was going to the most beautiful place on earth... to Mecca... they lived in a luxurious hotel next to the Holy Mosque in Mecca... every dawn they were exposed to this sacred, honorable view, and after a month In Mecca, they went to the city of the Holy Messenger for another month... They clung to the place and the owner of the place... They left the entire world: their work and their family, and they found what they wanted here with the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him. It is the thirst of years when fresh, flowing water comes to him; To satisfy.. It is the state of the absent beloved when he returns to the embrace of his mother and father to live again.. It is the smiling light of dawn when it dispels the darkness of the oppressive night and calms the heart and soul... Enjoy the paradise on earth before entering the paradise of heaven.. The groom died in the city. Al-Munawwarah on his honeymoon... after he was satisfied and wrote the conclusion of happiness on the foreheads of the repentant people... after he married the chaste, repentant, pure nymph of the world who sold everything for the sake of her religion to the point that she did not return to the company after him... I have not seen or heard from her since then. Now, her fragrant biography and pure behavior are unforgettable. Yes, when she tasted the sweetness of faith, she changed everyone around her. But there are souls we have known for decades. Beautiful, authentic souls in whom time has not changed anything. No matter how poor or rich they are, no matter how sick or healed they are, no matter how happy or sad they are, they are just as beautiful, and their beauty increases. There are souls who have worked with us for decades and praise our simple deeds, and our simple, few insignificant gifts are still sprinkled on them. Their honorable, noble heads are dear, and they meet them with their prayers that fill us with protection, bliss, and more. Their hearts flood us with love, gratitude, kindness, and mercy, and God still honors us with them. They are the most beautiful things in life and the greatest things in the universe, and for them we write and for them we live. These and these have not changed, but rather become more steadfast, beautiful, and radiant. And be honest... There are souls who knew us for the sake of our interests and claimed our love and service for our interests, and we lavished them upon them despite knowing their intentions. Perhaps they would be satisfied and stop harboring hatred, envy, blame and boredom, hoping that they would be committed and that God would guide them. We stood with them in their crises, fulfilled their interests, favored them over us, educated them in our companies, employed them, and helped them with their homes and livelihood, but they were not satisfied, and when we chose to stay away from them because of incompatibility with their nature, they attacked us with mournful tongues, harsh hearts, and absent, wandering consciences. They slandered us with the greatest slander, and turned every veiled thing into a detriment, and every good thing into evil, and for what... People asked them, “Do you praise them?” They said, “We were ignorant. We did not know them.. There are souls who hated us at first sight and were hostile to us without a clear reason. Perhaps we did not like them, or because they hated those who preached missions, or because they were rewarded for that... So these and these we distanced ourselves from and crossed them to where they directed us and we pray every day.” We pray, “Oh God, be our neighbor from the evils of all of Your creation. Honor your neighbor, and blessed are your names. There are individuals who were next to us whom we did not deal with, and we wished for them to be guided and to change their condition from evil to good, from distance from God to nearness, from committing sins without shame or modesty, to following the Sunnah and the Way without fear.” Or Glory be to Him. So God guided them, and our supplications for them determined their destinies, so people forgot their evil and deviation, and the tongues of the people that used to slander and curse them began to praise and thank them, and those that used to backbite and shame them... began to glorify them, cover them, and pray for them, doing so while saying: Glory be to God! Have you seen the son of so-and-so, who used to disobey his sons and oppress his brothers, become righteous towards his sons and brothers... Glory be to God! Have you seen so-and-so who, in his youth, did not pray and used to steal, beat, and bully now frequents the mosque, helps the needy, and teaches children... and this is how he treated every peer... and Glory be to God! The one who erases bad deeds with good deeds, so that people forget your ugly past when you first step towards purity and righteousness.. Be certain that you must change for the right thing...whether on your own behalf and after thinking and contemplating on your part..or a white hand extended to you like the hands of those who preach and role models...or it was extended to you. Some hand, the plot of your child, as the barefoot daughter of Bishr did in a dream after her death...or the hand of fate extended to you with a problem or calamity to remind you of your truth that you are leaving and that you will meet God and leave the world and everything in it... Written by Ali Al-Sayyar