Bismillaah

My grandmother passed away today. She wasn’t Muslim and I never got to call her to Islaam because she was in Mexico and I am not. The last time we saw each other was when I was about 6 or 7 years old. We spoke on the phone and stuff but due to so many family problems, our talk time was always limited.

Whatever the case, my mother is so down. She had just came back last week from Mexico because she hadn’t been feeling well and this week her mother passed. My grandmother had been suffering from cancer and all types of problems and was in so much pain. My mother feels guilty for leaving so suddenly because she stopped eating after she left but I reminded her that when it is our time to go that’s it. It brought her up some but a certain entity in the family, who should be supporting her right now, is only making her life harder.

Death is the scariest of all trials and what frightens me the most is death hitting very close to home. I wish I could be by my mother right now but I can’t and plus she is leaving for Mexico soon for the funeral and all.

To know that there is so much suffering in this world and that many people will suffer in both this life and in the Hereafter is hard to think about. I don’t want to go through struggles in this life and lose my Hereafter. We really need to work on ourselves and continue to make sincere du`aa’ to Allaah to guide our families. We can’t give up on them because we don’t know what Allaah has planned.

May Allaah guide our non-Muslim families to the truth and make us steadfast in our religion, aameen

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji`oon