dianek
Junior Member
Salaam All!
I wanted to share this event with you all. Yesterday after picking up my children from their babysitters I was stopped at a stop light. There was a little woman going car to car and ofcourse my first thought was that she was looking for money. I could tell she was foreign but from where I could not guess. I had my car windows down and quickly became a target for her. She told me that she just needed a ride back to the laundry mat about 3 miles aways at Broad Street and parham......I agreed to let her in, figuring she was so tiny she isn't a threat. So she got in and immediately we started talking. She said she was from Afghanistan and was brought to the US after she suffered injuries from shrapnel.....to which she had a very tender side where there were once 60 stitches. I asked if she was muslim and indeed she said she was. I felt so terrible for her. I asked her how she got to the US and she said by the Grace of Allah and some kind US soldiers. Yet here she is in the US, no family, no car. She had walked the 3 miles from the laundry mat to return something to Walmart so she could get her $$ back to use to wash clothes. They would not refund her and she was just in too much pain to walk all the way back. I told her I had taken shahada and she smiled and said "Alhumdullilah, I was going to tell you that you have a beautiful heart and the heart of a muslim, that you should learn islam"....when she got out, I gave her some $$ for her to wash her clothes but after she left, I teared up. How alone she must feel! Do you know she said the people in the US are very kind though she said "Walmart is MEAN!"......so I suggest, lets boycott walmart! LOL!!! She touched me.
I wanted to share this event with you all. Yesterday after picking up my children from their babysitters I was stopped at a stop light. There was a little woman going car to car and ofcourse my first thought was that she was looking for money. I could tell she was foreign but from where I could not guess. I had my car windows down and quickly became a target for her. She told me that she just needed a ride back to the laundry mat about 3 miles aways at Broad Street and parham......I agreed to let her in, figuring she was so tiny she isn't a threat. So she got in and immediately we started talking. She said she was from Afghanistan and was brought to the US after she suffered injuries from shrapnel.....to which she had a very tender side where there were once 60 stitches. I asked if she was muslim and indeed she said she was. I felt so terrible for her. I asked her how she got to the US and she said by the Grace of Allah and some kind US soldiers. Yet here she is in the US, no family, no car. She had walked the 3 miles from the laundry mat to return something to Walmart so she could get her $$ back to use to wash clothes. They would not refund her and she was just in too much pain to walk all the way back. I told her I had taken shahada and she smiled and said "Alhumdullilah, I was going to tell you that you have a beautiful heart and the heart of a muslim, that you should learn islam"....when she got out, I gave her some $$ for her to wash her clothes but after she left, I teared up. How alone she must feel! Do you know she said the people in the US are very kind though she said "Walmart is MEAN!"......so I suggest, lets boycott walmart! LOL!!! She touched me.
