Today I woke up as usual and put my clothes on. I ventured to work in a mumbly, sleep-deprived state – it strikes me as odd now, because I have been getting more than enough sleep. When I got to work I pulled a post-it-note off the pad and wrote “Ya Allah…“
A whole dua, from start to finish.
And it rested there for hours amongst the clutter of my day job. I wrote a phone number on the back of my dua.
When the end of the day crawled forward, I whited-out His Name, folded the square in half to make a triangle. The corners weren’t as aligned as I hoped they’d be. I recycled it.
I tend to write prayers on the corners of newspapers and pale yellow post-it notes. I scrawl them on my left palm, type them out into documents, and read them aloud when alone.
Tomorrow I will do the same.
Perhaps the more I write, the more likely my prayers are to be answered.
“Perhaps the more I write, the more likely my prayers are to be answered.”
What a great idea. Perhaps it would work. But either way, Allah answers our dua. His answers may not necessarily match the way we see success (or answered). But He hears, and He answers, EVERYtime. I know it’s true, otherwise, I would not be able to keep faith anymore.
Beautiful blog. =)
By: ajnabiyya on June 13, 2009
at 9:47 am
it is only to Him that we can write with utter (award-winning sometimes) honesty…
I’m a prayer writer too – it’s the best form/genre of writing i think.
By: commonplacer on June 13, 2009
at 6:21 pm
Beautiful habit. I think I might take it up too. I wrote a prayer on a leaf once and left it in the tree it had fallen from. And, in time, it was answered. Alhamdulillah
By: minaretmuse on October 1, 2009
at 5:13 pm