HUJAN I

It was raining heavily that evening. I sheltered myself under a small bus stop. Pulled myself together as it was a bit chilly. My mahallah was about another 500 meters from here. I just could sprint away to go there but I refused because I did not want to get wet. Silly me who decided not to bring my small umbrella this morning just because it would cause me too many things to carry. Sitting there alone, I just scrolled through the posts on my Instagram timeline, and viewed some tweets on Twitter.

‘Huh, I am so bored. When is the rain going to stop?’, I murmured.

“Oh, shoot! My clothes that I hung at the clothesline! Supposedly, all of it got wet again.”, I sighed.

As the rain poured heavily, I saw a girl walking through it happily. She let herself get wet under the downpour. As soon she arrived and sat next to me, I asked her, “Why did you let yourself wet? You might catch cold you know.”

She replied, “MashaAllah, sister. The rain is rahmat from Allah. Why did I have to resist myself from His rahmat? Allahumma Soyyiban Nafi’a!”

I was stunned.

It was narrated from ‘Aa’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Messenger of Allah

(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) saw rain, he would say: “Allahumma sayyiban naafi‘an {O

Allah, (make it) a beneficial downpour).” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (1032)