Road To Jannah

Chapter 22

"Life hurts! But the best pain reliever is waking up before the dawn prayer and supplicating to your lord who is always near."

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"Nik put this pillow beside Mariam, she was about to fall yesterday when Ahmad caught her Alhamdulillah." said Ayesha as she sat on the couch while Nikita did as she was told by her.

"Dads are such a blessing, my dad saved me too from an accident when I was a child." Ayesha recalled the memories of her father. Watching her daughter with her father sometimes brought back the memories of her beloved father.

"My father saved me too." Nikita expressed something about her father.

"Really? How?"

"Yeah. I used to go on morning walks with my dad and one day while we were walking casually just like other days, dad held my hand and stopped me from proceeding. I stopped the midway while taking my step. Guess why did he stop me?"

"Umm why?"

"Because there was a snake who was passing by, and if I would have taken that step then the snake would have surely bitten me right back." sighed out Nikita.

"Dads are such saviours. I really miss him but the hope that we'll meet in jannah someday keeps me going." stated Ayesha.

"Jannah?" Nikita said exaggerating the word to get the meaning of it.

"I mean heaven. We believe that death can never do us apart. We will again be raised up and those who did good deeds, they'll live happily ever after with the people they love. So we have hope that we will live together in sha Allah."

"Ohh we believe that too."

"But good deed is not the only thing which will take you there. It's also the tawheed." claimed Ayesha.

"Now what does that mean?" asked Nikita thoughtfully.

"It is to testify that God is one."

"We believe that God is one but God has several faces." Nikita replied.

"How can god have several faces? Like how can he even be similar to a humn being. He is magnificent, do you think the one who created this earth and the sky could be  so ordinary and can be seen by us so easily?"

"Hmm I don't know. We follow this."

"You should know about your own books. It's written in

[Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]
'Ekam evadityam'
'He is only one without a second.'

[Yajurveda 32:3]
'Na tasya pratima asti'
'There is no image of him.'

[Swetasvatara Upanishad 6,9: part 2, page 263]
'Na casya kasuj janita na cadhipah.'
'Of him there are Niether parents nor lord.'

And there are many more."

"Woah. How do you know about our books? You have not only read it but memorised it too."

"Yeah not only yours but other major religions too. The only mistake people do is not to read their own books and follow what their fathers have been doing. Every religion speaks the same about God but people differ because they follow not what has been revealed." stated Ayesha.

After a while, the table was set and there sat the husband and wife having dinner together at 9 O'clock clock.

"Are you tired?" Ayesha asked after taking a morsel towards her mouth.