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She was nearly seventy years old when the call came to migrate.

Most people that age would have stayed behind. The journey from Mecca to Medina was brutal even for the young. But Umm Ayman (RA) had never left the Prophet (ﷺ) before. She wasn't about to start now.

Somewhere along that desert road, she ran out of water.

Just endless sand and the very real fear that she might die of thirst.

Then the sun began to set.

She describes what happened next: "When the sun disappeared, I saw a bucket descending from above my head, held by a rope. Wallahi, I could not see the top of that rope."

She drank until her thirst was gone. Then she poured the rest over her body to cool herself down.

She said that from that day forward, she never felt thirst again.

She would fast on the hottest days. She would make tawaf in the scorching sun. She would push herself deliberately just to test it.

Fasting became the easiest act of worship for her.

When she finally arrived in Medina, her feet were swollen, her face covered in dust. The Prophet (ﷺ) looked at this woman who had held him as a baby, who had consoled him as an orphan, who had walked this brutal road in her old age because she refused to be separated from him and said: “O my mother, O my mother. Indeed for you is a place in Jannah."

The second time he promised her Paradise.

Some people get glad tidings once. She is one of the few to recieve them twice. And she got a miracle in between.

She was given water from the heavens when she had none left on earth. Today, you can be the means of water for others. Help us complete the well and utilities for this masjid and let every drop that quenches a believer’s thirst be a witness for you on the Day you need it most. Click here to make a difference.

Reflect on this:

She never felt thirst again after that bucket descended. What has Allah given you that you've stopped noticing?

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