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Story of br. Abdul Tawwab

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Bismillah IrRahman IrRahim
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

I had an opportunity to visit IREF, Hyderabad in Dec 2015 to listen to Br. Imran LIVE. Alhamdulillah, it was an amazing experience and Alhamdulillah, Br. Imran gave me 15 mins of his crucial time to talk 1O1. I will keep the experience about the meet with Br. Imran for a later article InshaAllah.

In this article, I want to talk about the story of one of the revert brother that Br. Imran narrated in his lecture. The story is about a non-muslim brother who was in love with Urdu and wanted to learn it. Since, he was very poor, he couldn’t afford to take classes for Urdu. However, he use to associate ‘Urdu' with Muslims and thought of going and sitting near a mosque to learn this language. He started to go and sit on the stairs of one of the Mosques every Friday. Now, on every Friday, there is a sermon where the Imam reminds people about islamic duties. In the sermon, he use to hear the word ‘Allah’ ‘Allah’ a lot of times. This word had so much impact on him that he started loving this word and wanted to know more about it. He was again unable to find anyone who would tell him more about it.

His daughter use to work at someone’s place where she saw a leaflet from IREF something very similar to the one below.



His daughter informed about this session to her father. The venue of this session was close to 30 KMs from his home and he didn’t even have money to travel to the venue. But, he was so much interested in knowing more about Allah that he decided to cycle all the way 30 KMs to the venue. Imagine a 60 yr old (approx) cycling 30KMs!!!!! Alhamdulillah, he attended the session and in due course he accepted Islam. Today, he is known as Abdul Tawwab.

Kindly note that he cycled 30KMs to know more about Allah. How much are we doing to know more about Allah SWT or Islam in general? We have all the information just a click away but we can’t even take that step and this non-muslim brother took the hard 30KMs on bicycle!!!

There is one Hadith that is coming to my mind right with which I will end inshaAllah.

Narrated Anas:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "My Lord says, 'If My slave comes nearer to me for a span, I go nearer to him for a cubit; and if he comes nearer to Me for a cubit, I go nearer to him for the span of outstretched arms; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari 7536 (Vol. 9, Book 93, Hadith 627)

This Brother took that hard step of cycling 30KMs and Allah SWT rewarded him with Emaan. He may be far ahead than most of muslims in the akherah!! May Allah make us amongst those who are always moving towards Him.

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