Halaqa # 7

Visiting the Sick

Reflections, Virtues and Etiquettes

Attendance:

• 4  Sisters
• 2  Junior Sisters

Location:  Celebration Square Mississauga

Agenda: (please note, we have included many links where you can read in detail more on each subject)

• OPENING DUA

Oh Allah, accept the fasts of those who are fasting, and the worship and prayers of all who are experiencing the month of Ramadan.

• QURAN RECITATION

We read Surah Faatihah aloud altogether, then sisters individually read aloud a few letters/words, ayahs (according to her ability and with the help and encouragement of her fellow sisters).  We read Surah Baqarah from Ayat 84  till Ayat 101.  In sha Allah, this will be an ongoing part of our halaqa and one day in sha Allah, we will have Khatam Quran and begin again.

• SISTER’S TALK

Sister Sara read the 1st part of an online article: Visiting the Sick

Sister’s Assiya and Rim read the 2nd part of the article: Visiting the Sick

We encourage you all to read this article and discover all the amazing benefits
that come from visiting the sick.

• LEARN A DUA

When visiting the sick:

Lâ ba'sa, tahûrun in shâ'a l-lâhu.

لا بأْسَ طَهـورٌ إِنْ شـاءَ الله

"Never mind, may it (the sickness) be a purification, if Allah wills."

source: http://www.hisnulmuslim.com/index-page-chapitre-id_chapitre-49-lang-en.html

• CORRECTION by Sister Winnie

Thanks to Sister Solange who commented on the talk I gave last week “The time of my life”.
I mentioned that Dhikr could be in three forms,

• tongue
• heart
• tongue and heart

She pointed out that Dhikr must be made with the tongue and using the heart only would be a form of contemplation or reflection.  Jazak Allahu Khairan for this clarification from her.

• SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AMANAH SISTERS

Visiting the Sick -

a new monthly campaign to encourage our members to experience this 
Sunnah of our Beloved Prophet (peace be upon Him)

In sha Allah, starting next month, Amanah Sisters are going to start an ongoing campaign to encourage sisters to visit the sick.  Each month we will be sending out an email to remind sisters about the benefits of visiting the sick.  Sisters can visit individually on their own or organize visits in their areas, or use the vast network of Amanah Sister members to connect up sisters who need visits with those who can provide a visit.  We hope that many of our members will participate in this new activity.  Email us if you know of a sister who would enjoy a visit.  Email us if you would like to organize a group visit.  Email us if you would like to comment on this plan.

Also, there is a sister who with her husband has started a group, specifically focused on visiting the sick in hospitals.  Her name is Sister Malika and she has agreed to present a talk to Amanah Sisters in the near future, in sha Allah.

Some of our members have already started to implement visiting and can speak from personal experience that the peace and tranquility that descends on them from the time they leave their home, till when they return are immense.  

One sister they visited, who is an alumni member and recently returned to Toronto from Dubai is Sister Layla.  We wrote to you all about her back in April.  She is a revert and paralysed (living on her own) and would love to receive visitors at her home in the York region of Toronto.  If you would like to get in touch with her, please email her at:  Layla Mandi <layla.onepure@gmail.com>.  If you would like to visit her but don’t have transportation, please contact us.

To read a collection of hadiths on visiting the sick: 

Riyad us Saliheen  The Book of Visiting the Sick.  

• SISTER’S TALK

Sister Winnie presented a talk on Social Etiquettes of Visiting the Sick.

• VIDEO  

We watched part of the following video intending to finish it on our own at home.

Visiting the Sick khutba by Ahsan Usman Zayid  27 minutes

• LENDING LIBRARY

Alhamdulilah, we received a donation of books and pamphlets for our library.  A small selection of these were circulated and some were chosen to take home by those present.

• CLOSING DUA

Supplication for Sadness  دعاء الهم و الحزن

Oh God, I servant I’m your servant, son/daughter of your servant, my forelock is in your hand, decisive in your judgment, just in your decrees.  I ask you in the honor of each name you have named yourself or wrote in your Divine Book, or taught to any of Your creation or kept its knowledge to yourself in the World of the Unknown,  I ask you to make the Quran spring to my heart, and light to my heart, and relief of my sorrow and removal of my anguish.

اللهم إني عبدك ابن عبدك ابن أمتك ناصيتي بيدك ، ماضِ في حكمك ، عدل في قضاؤك ، أسألك بكل اسم هو لك سميت به نفسك أو أنزلته في كتابك ، أو علمته أحداً من خلقك أو استأثرت به في علم الغيب عندك أن تجعل القرآن ربيع قلبي ، ونور صدري وجلاء حزني وذهاب همي

source: http://muslimhealth.org/spiritual-care/community-regional-medical-center/

If any of this information was good and true, know that it comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala.  If there are mistakes we ask for Allah’s Forgiveness and Mercy.