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Preparing to Lose My Mother: Ust. Roohi Tahir | My Moment of Conviction
Was there a moment in your life when you knew for certain Islam was the truth? Ustadha Roohi recalls her moment of conviction, which came as she was preparing for her mother's return to Allah.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. So, a moment in time that was really transformative for me was, and it's been a monumental experience in my life, I guess, is losing my mother. She very suddenly became ill, and as a family it was obviously, as many have gone through this, it was really traumatic. But the one thing that really got me through, and I think I was committed to dealing with it in what I understood to be, quote-unquote, the right way, as somebody who'd been living a life believing in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, believing that Islam is true. But sometimes you don't realize what that really means until it's tested, right? And I think commitments really come into full view when they're tested. And so it was relatively over a short period of time, it was very, very intense for us, and for me personally in those few months, that's all we had with her. It really made me learn what tawakkul in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is, to the point where there was no other way to explain what was happening, why it was happening, and how we were going to get past it other than the fact that this has to be the truth. We are here for a purpose that's greater than what we see around us in the world, and what we experience day to day. And that led me, I think, to be able to, and I really prepared myself very consciously that whenever that moment comes that we are no longer in her presence and she's no longer with us here, that I would be able to say that those first words would be alhamdulillah. And I used that time, those few months, to really develop a relationship with the Qur'an and with the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in a way that I probably never done it before in my life. And I needed that, not just for myself, but to be there for my siblings, for my family. And alhamdulillah, that is exactly the way it played out when it did happen. And that was, to me, also a proof to me for myself that inshallah this is a sign that I do believe this is the truth. And going forward it gave me the strength to be able to say this is a temporary separation. And inshallah one day as believers we fully believe that when we have that kind of conviction that Allah will reunite us in Jannah and that is the dua with which I live and the hope with which I live. And I hope that, I can't wait to see what, out of Allah's generosity and mercy, what He has ready for us that I can look back one day and say, you know, yes this was a moment but alhamdulillah we're just in such a better place for it.
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