One Good Deed: A Personal Story -Mufti Abu Layth

what does it mean the parable of the grain Oh this about the grain is just to show that the way or the way a seed has exponential growth that you know you drop a seed and it grows grains and then they have multiple seeds and and this is how good deeds work in this world okay so your one good deed you never know where it may where it may benefit somebody you have no idea sometimes you know it's amazing you think sometimes our good deeds I don't know you know sometimes I think back to myself and I

think like maybe like you never know like maybe like there was some good deed that you did that Allah blessed you because of I don't know you know like sometimes I think back you know this this incident occurs to me that uh is he like I mentioned before I I wasn't really I never grew up in a religious family at all family still like really religious in that sense and I never used to pray or anything all of us used to

pray but I remember when I was about 16 just before going into 17 like that my mom won't wanted to go on Omar and there was a group of people that were going on homra and and they said let's take me so I was like yeah alright whatever it's like a holiday you know we had respect obviously for Islam and Makkah and Madinah and I had as a kid being too much cheese had the kind of I was gonna say had the he'll be a beaten out of me like everybody else memorized

all the stuff and then all of that not with the juries and stuff but but my point was I I knew the basic stuff I knew what's a lies I didn't know how to pray and stuff but I never used to so I went the end and I remember that you know I was in Medina and obviously you're just chilling going around you know my things I'll just a kid as well and and I remember there's this guy Pakistani kind of a bit you must have I don't know like maybe late teen 20 most something like that you're all mine and I saw him then you

just and really kind of bothered and and yet like shalwar kameez and socket speak basic kind of all those I spoke to him and I said like is everything okay and he just said that you know like he said like he'd heard that to recite ayatul kursi in front of the in the Roda of the Prophet was like a really great deed so I said I said okay yeah I'm like I don't really know much so and he said I don't know it though he said I don't know a little curtsy

so I actually knew it I mean I wasn't religious or anything but I knew because obviously we memorized his kids because like I said they used to beat the crap the hell out of us so we had to memorize stuff so I said to him well I could see like is it like allahu la la hey la la and he said yeah i said well i know that i said i can read it for you if you want you know you can read it after me so he said we you and i said yeah yeah and so we went and we just sat being that robot by with the prophets gravy's and i just read it to him just me mitered we the

proper messed up to read back then and he ready after me and he was so chuffed by I mean I didn't really I don't think too much of it but you know sometimes you think we just sat thee by me I'm not too far from where the prophets gravies and just read there and and sometimes I think you know when I came back from Umrah in the in the weeks that followed that's when I started to get this interest to learn Arabic and my whole life really changed from that point and he just makes you think maybe sometimes

in life you've done like a little eat you know just made somebody's day somewhere and I think that may have made the difference to everything never really know but I I don't know like I some time so I often like that that memory kind of occurs to me that I think back and and I suppose a blessed place the prophet's mosque you may allah accept from eating home i mean