My Father Has Passed Away...
Assalamu alaykum dear brothers and sisters, I want to share something from my heart. For the last ten years, my relationship with my father was very complicated. We tried to mend things in the last two years and kind of managed to forgive each other. But then he fell ill-he had a stroke that left him bedridden for nine months. The stroke was caused by a lot of stress and his smoking habit. Looking back, I feel like I lost my father that day because he was never really the same again. He was using a mild drug, and where I live, this kind of thing destroys everything and everyone around it. What hurts me even more is that instead of helping him stop this addiction, some of my brothers actually encouraged it. Doctors advised us not to give him the drug because it worsened his thinking and caused insomnia, but they gave it to him anyway. Two of my older brothers did this, and my older sister gave him too many sleeping pills. It turned him into a walking zombie. Between the drug and the pills, he was in a bad state. One night, he fell and broke a bone in his leg. That was the turning point. Because of all this, they caused him more harm, not caring or being patient. They rushed him to a hospital that felt like a morgue, and things got worse from there. He had surgery a month after being admitted. Then, a doctor treated him poorly, opening his wound in an unsterile place just to show interns, instead of moving him to a proper hospital. I had asked them from the start to take him to a certified hospital, but they ignored me because I’m "young" and supposedly know nothing. I’m not sure if I can ever forgive what was done to him. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. Allahumma ghfir lihayyina wa mayyitina, wa shahidina wa gha'ibina, wa saghirina wa kabirina, wa dhakarina wa unthana. Allahumma man ahyaytahu minna fa-ahyihi 'ala al-Islam, wa man tawaffaytahu minna fa-tawaffahu 'ala al-Iman. Allahumma la tahrimna ajrahu wa la tudillana ba'dahu. I ask Allah (SWT) to welcome him with His infinite mercy and grant him Jannah. I am thankful that after six months of suffering, Allah gave him peace on the blessed eve of Jummah. Despite his faults, my father was devout, and I find comfort knowing he rests on such a blessed day. Allahu Akbar. Please make dua for me, as I am also unwell with hyperthyroidism, and for my mother, who faces many health challenges. Kindly remember my father in your prayers. May Allah grant him Jannah, Ameen. Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh. Thank you for reading my story. Take care of yourselves, and assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.