Heart touching Real Life True Story!!!

It’s about a Muslim man named Rashid. He Says. “I was not a practicing
Muslim, I had bad friends. I enjoyed
going out with them. I was almost never home, but always at
gatherings with friends, in these gatherings we backbite, gossiped and
made fun of people. I was especially known among my friends to make
jokes and
people were impressed by the way I was so good at it.
One night (at the time I was 30 and married and my wife was pregnant
with our 1st child) I was as usual gathered with my friends and talking
useless talk. I was telling them how I was at the market one day and I
saw a blind man and I put my leg out in front of this man and the blind
man tripped and fell on his face. My friends laughed and so on. When I
went back home that night, my wife told me ‘were have u been?’ ‘I am
so tired and sick and I think I am in labor.’ A tear dropped down her
cheek. I felt guilty, for I hadn’t cared about my wife properly. I
quickly took her to the hospital. She was in pain for a long time and
could not give birth,
I waited patiently, but eventually I left and told the hospital to call me
when she gave birth. An hour later, they called telling me my wife had
given birth to baby boy named Salem. I quickly went to the hospital. I
asked which room my wife was in. They told me that I had to see the
doctor first. I got mad at them and said
“What doctor? I want to see my son!?!” they insisted that I see the
doctor first. So I went to the doctor, she first talked to me about
calamities and that one
must accept the will (qadar) of Allah.
Then she told me, ‘your son is blind!’ I lowered my head and
remembered the blind man I tripped and made fun of. I didn’t know
what to say, I thanked the doctor for her kindness and went to see my
wife. My wife was not sad, rather she accepted the will of Allah
Almighty.
She had always advised me not to make fun of people and not to gossip
and backbite. We left the hospital. I
did not care about Salem, I did not like him, I pretended that he wasn’t
even in the house. But, my wife loved Salem very much and cared for
him.
Salem grew and he began to crawl, he wasn’t crawling properly. When
he began to walk, we discovered that he
was handicapped. This was too much for me. Later, my wife gave birth
to 2 boys, Omar and Khalid. Years passed, Salem and his brothers grew.
I continued
to hang out with my bad friends and did not like to be at home.
However, my wife was patient with me and she always made Dua that
Allah guide me.
One Friday, I woke up at 11 am (which was early for me) and was
getting ready to go to a walimah (I did not go to Jummah). I got
dressed, put on a tie, and was about to head out the door when I saw
Salem (who was 10 yrs old) crying very loudly in the living room. So,
for the first time in 10 years I cared and went to ask him why he was
crying. When Salem felt me coming near, he stopped crying and pushed
me away as if to say, “Now you care, where you were for the past 10
years!”
Salem was calling his mother and brothers, but no one was answering
him, so he went to his room. I followed him. At first, he would not tell
me why he was crying. Do you know why he was crying? His brother
Omar, who normally took him to the masjid, was late. Salem was afraid
that since it was a Friday, he would not be able to get a spot in the
front row at the mosque. I said,
“Is that why you cried salem?” Salem answered positively.
I, out of disbelief from what I heard, forgot about my
friends and the walimah. I then told Salem that I would take him to the
mosque. Salem could not believe what he had heard. He thought his
father was mocking him. He then began to cry. I wiped Salem’s tears
and took him by his hand to take him to the car. Salem refused. He said
the mosque is near, and he wants to walk there by foot. I could not
remember the last time he went to the mosque. The mosque was full,
but I was able to find a spot for salem in the first row. After prayer
was over, Salem asked me to get him a copy of the Quran. I thought,
‘how can he want a Quran if he is blind!!!! [truncated by WhatsApp]