Good People are valuable to God

   The smile of hope today is about a story that I witnessed myself. I have had a friend that I loved too much, his name is Ahmed Kandil, and he is one of the best people I have ever seen. He did not fool, did not laugh at others. He was interiorly beautiful. Such people when Allah put them to the proof in the present life, he does not fatigue them. Ahmed had cancer. He had been very tired. Four month before his death he phoned me. He became very tired and his movement was very difficult. He told me that he wanted to go to Hajj. I said to myself: "How can he perform Hajj. Hajj is difficult and even healthy people get tired in Hajj. How can Ahmed do?" I said to him: "Allah willing".i did not know what to say, as if I said it would not be. But Ahmed had a sincere firmness. Two weeks before Hajj Ahmed phoned me and said:"I have got the visa; I shall go to Hajj alone". Found him in such insistence I said to him "We will perform Hajj together". It was the easiest Hajj I have ever performed that one with Ahmed. After we finished Hajj, I said to him the Haram was crowded, let us pass after two days and perform Tawaf Ifadah. But Ahmed left me sleeping and performed the Tawaf. One I asked him why he said he could not, he wanted to finish his Hajj.

  Two weeks after we returned, Ahmed entered in coma for three months and died. The last thing he did was Hajj. He returned back as his mother born him. He had not do any bad thing to anybody, did not insult anyone. Allah blesses Ahmed soul. Ahmed Adhered to life and consulted physicians. We have a common friend. He know that Ahmed was about to die. He said to Ahmed: "It is your right to adhere to life, but you have to know that you have the opportunity that Allah grants to you, you know that death is nearer and you have to profit of this opportunity.

  Ahmed was very kind; he finished his life with Hajj and returned as his mother born him without sins. Allah blesses his soul. This is a smile of hope to his wife, his children and to him in his grave.

How to overcome being edgy, and how to be very calm

   Welcome to a new episode of smile of hope. People these days are nervous, apprehensive, stressed out, tense, and life is difficult for them. The episode smile of hope today is for the people who are extremely edgy, because of current events, life circumstances, traffic, or the heat. However, regardless to reason, the truth is people are very apprehensive. I will tell you a very beneficial story of how to overcome being edgy, and how to be very calm. When you are edgy,you being bothering others, sometimes your kids, wife, your neighbor, and sometimes be involved in road rage. You keep bothering and hurting others, and saying "what am I supposed to do, I'm very edgy?"

  I’ll tell you the story of a father, whose son was always very apprehensive, and whenever anything happened he'd show great anger and would start slamming around and starting fights. The father told him "I'll teach you something". Anytime you become edgy, I want you to take this piece of wood and hammer a nail into it. Every time you hurt someone or become edgy, I want you to hammer a nail into it. It was apparent the son wanted to overcome his problem, because apparently he kept on losing a lot of people in his life. He brought the large piece of wood in his room as well as a hammer and nails, and every time he'd hurt someone he'd hammer in a nail-bang, bang, bang- for every instance – bang, bang bang. The first night, he put in 30 nails. He felt like he should reduce this number. The second night, this hands-on experiment caused him to reduce it to 20 nails. The third night he did 10 nails. The fourth night it was only 5 nails. After a week, he didn't put in a single nail. The idea of the hammer hitting the nail and making the loud bang-bang-bang noise hurt him and made him be careful, and he took the decision to stop bothering others. After that, he returned to his father, and his father told him "See how great you've become? I have a request for you; please remove the nails from the wood." The son responded "but these are too many nails in the wood." The father said, "No, you must remove the nails from the wood." The son removed the nails from the wood, and the wood was filled with holes.

 The father told the son with great wisdom "you did this to the hearts and minds of those you aggravated with your edginess. Imagine all the holes in the hearts and minds of those you've bothered. You have left a scar in the hearts and minds of all those you've bothered. I wonder how many scars are in your wife's hearts and mind because of you? I wonder, young men and women: Are you hammering nails in your mother's hearts?

How can that be?

  No no, can you imagine the holes in people's hearts because of the nails you hammered into them with your rough words and edginess? Can you stop hammering nails in people's hearts? Can you remember this story? Can you stop yourself, and beware of being edgy? If you can't control yourself then get the wood and the nails, and do this experiment. May God protect us, guide us, protect our homes, and help us be calm in these hard days. There is no smile of hope without being able to keep cool. Keep cool, and see a wonderful smile of hope.

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Call on your Lord and Allah will be with you as the Ever-Powerful and Exalted in Might

  Welcome to today's episode of a smile of hope. Today's episode is about father of three children. This father was a very rich man. This is an imaginary story which has a very nice meaning. One day he filled a big box with pearls, gold and rubies. This box was very expensive and very luxurious. It was very heavy… but he carried it and put it in front of his three children that he truly loves and told them: "you are all my children… and I have decided to give this box to you all" and he opened the box in front of them and asked each one of them to reach out with their hands and take only a hand-full of jewels. Only as much as his palms can carry, but only one time.

  The eldest brother, of course, has much larger hands and so he digged his hands deep into the pile of jewels and took out lots of pearls, but only one time. The middle      brother, who also has large hands, he put his big hands into the box and took out so many jewels. Now was the turn of the youngest brother, whose hands were small compared with his brothers. He looked at his brothers…each one having so many pearls and jewels…and looks to his hands that were small and weak. So what did he do? Nothing…he did not reach out with his hands…but rather…he ran into his father's arms and asked him: "Do you love me?" so the father replied "I love you so much, my son" so he told his father "I don't want to take my share on my own. Can you give me my share, with your own hands?" so the father looked at his other two children and asked them: "Didn't you both           get your share?" He closed the box and gave the entire box to his youngest son.

  Why am I telling you this story? You and I every day, our weak strengths stop us from talking everything we desire in life. Then why don't you seek the Mighty one? Why don't you go to Allah Subhanaho wa taala? Why do we always make the wrong choices and only depend on our strengths which are weak, and we know that we are weak. I am telling you this story and God is my raw model. Why don't you go to God and tell God "All human beings and your creators, just like this man, all those children are his, but I have come to you, please help me. Of course you will have to work and exert effort but you will go to him to choose for you and to give you. There is a beautiful statement that says "In normal cases, a person who has a father does not get worried, then how would someone get worried if they have a God?" Wow…usually people with a father, especially a strong father, does not need to worry…then how can people get worried if they have Allah?

  Please when you are in trouble, and life is giving you a hard time, then go to God and tell him "My hands are small and my capabilities are limited and weak…make me strong and you give me what you wish. Please make things easier for me. Please fix my problems. They are much stronger than me and I am so weak. I have no one but you. If my father protects me…then imagine how much protection God will give me…always ask him…and then it will be a smile of hope.

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Oh Allah Almighty, gather us in Paradise

 The smile of hope today is about a very beautiful thing, but unfortunately many people do not feel it, live with it or dream of it. It is Paradise. Your utmost hope is to enter Paradise. Anyone say: "I hope to go to paradise, enjoy in it, be with my family and beloved therein, enjoy its palaces, towers, rivers, and seas; I hope I please to Allah, meet the prophet therein".

  I will tell you a joyful story. If a small child says to you: "I will give you big thing, what do you believe he can give you?" The biggest thing you can expect is 100 pounds. But if a bank manager says to you: "You have a big thing with me" you can expect 200,000, you except something complying with the weight of the person. Now if a head of state or a king says to you: "You have a large thing with me". What do you expect, one million? Of course not less than one million. If the owner of the world says: "I prepare to my righteous slaves something that no eye sees, no ear hears of and no human being can imagine". This thing is of course something which is not comparable with those promises of a small child, a bank manager or a president or a king.

  The compensation of Allah promises is Paradise. If you want the Paradise, you have to work for it. The dream of paradise is not a drug but the Prophet Muhammad never mentioned paradise without relate it with hard work in our life. The Prophet Muhammad (PBBUH) says: "Paradise is under the feet of mothers." Be kind with your mother you will go to Paradise. The Prophet Muhammad (PBBUH) said
, "Allah makes the way to Paradise easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.'' Work, make people happy, learn useful things and share them with others you will go to Paradise and will have the sustaining smile forever and smile of hope.                                                                                                                                                                                               Smile of hope

Treat people with your values & norms and not theirs

    Welcome everyone to anew smile of hope. Today episode is a story smile of hope from England. In England, There's famous park called ''Hyde park''. While taking a walk in the Hyde Park, I saw an old man. It was quite cold; he was standing near a tree &trying to climb it. He was indeed an old man. Yet he wanted to climb it. I looked at the top of the tree to know what he was searching for &I found a small nest with a small bird crying very loud. Apparently the wind blows the nest &both the nest and the bird was now crumbed between two boughs. The bird kept screaming and screaming then, I realized that the man only wanted to help the bird and save it from the fix.   

  The man tried to climb the tree& failed couple of times &then, when he succeeded& wanted to save the bird from the nest, the bird bit him hardly that he screamed out of loud! One minute later, after he saw that the wound wasn't huge, he climbed again & the bird again bit him harder. He climbed for the third & the fourth times & the bird bit him again and again. Oh! God the man was bit consecutively this appeared to be useless! The friend of that old man was there watching what was happening. He blamed him for not learning the lesson even after several times. And on contrary, he's persist ant on what he's doing. The old man told him a great statement, the eagle's nature is to bite strangers but my nature is to be compassionate and loving. The bird will keep on biting me and I will never stop being kind &compassionate towards it. The fourth time he succeeded in saving the bird, replacing the nest on a stable bough, the bird was finally calm.

   It is true that the man's finger was bitten several times in different places, but this kind man's words kept echoing in my head. ''The bird's nature is to bite the strangers but my nature is to be compassionate and loving towards others.'' treat people with your values & norms and not theirs. No matter how they're hard in their nature, no matter how rude they are, never imitate them. If all the people mean, just be the good example. Do you know how Allah treats us? Our sins are numerous but he treats us with his mercy not according to our deeds. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) taught us a very nice prayer ((oh Allah! don't treat us according to our deeds but treat us with your mercy &forgiveness.)).Never return a rude treatment, by someone who's ill mannered, by a similar treatment. Always remember that your norms and behaviors are different than theirs. Can you understand this point, fellow friends? Today in our country we could see several examples for people who harm others in different ways. Don't pay attention to them. If all the people decided to be ill-mannered, stay away from them .Stay as you are, and don't degrade yourself to others low manners. Keep your good manners, keep the smile of hope.

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