Another repost..~

This is another repost which I originally got from a friend. At first I thought after I read this, it was kinda washed me inside.heh. Well, here it is. The post titled was,

It is useless, Granpa

An old American Muslim lived on a farm
in the mountains of eastern Kentucky
with his young grandson. Each morning
Grandpa was up early sitting at the
kitchen table reading his Quraan. His
grandson wanted to be just like him and
tried to imitate him in every way he
could. One day the grandson asked,

"Grandpa! I try to read the Qur'an just
like you but I don't understand it, and
what I do understand I forget as soon as
I close the book. What good does reading
the Qur'an do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from
putting coal in the stove and replied,

"Take this coal basket down to the river
and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the
water leaked out before he got back to
the house. The grandfather laughed and said,

"You'll have to move a little faster
next time," and sent him back to the
river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again
the basket was empty before he returned
home. Out of breath, he told his
grandfather that it was impossible to
carry water in a basket, and he went to
get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket
of water, I want a basket of water.
You're just not trying hard enough," and
he went out the door to watch the boy
try again. At this point, the boy knew
it was impossible, but he wanted to show
his grandfather that even if he ran as
fast as he could, the water would leak
out before he got back to the house.

The boy again dipped the basket into
river and ran hard, but when he reached
his grandfather the basket was again
empty. Out of breathe, he said, "See
Grandpa, it's useless!"


"So you think it is useless?" The old
man said, "Look at the basket." The boy
looked at the basket and for the first
time realized that the basket was
different. It had been transformed from
a dirty old coal basket and was now
clean, inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read
the Qur'an. You might not understand or
remember everything, but when you read
it, you will be changed, inside and out.
That is the work of Allah in our lives."