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It was a beautiful spring day, and Yasmeen was outside with the other children on the school playground. Yasmeen went to a public school, and she had another Muslim friend named Hala. They were both on the swing, when Yasmeen noticed some of the kids crawling in the grass. They looked like cats searching for mice! Thinking that they were picking flowers, Yasmeen said, "Hala, why don't we pick some pretty flowers for our moms?" Hala noticed the other students too, and then without a word they ran to join the others.
When they reached the
other students, they found out that the children weren't picking flowers. They
were in a bed of clovers looking for four-leaf clovers. "What do you want with
those? Those aren't flowers!" remarked Yasmeen in confusion. But one of the boys
laughed and said, " Yasmeen, don't you know how hard it is to find a four-leaf
clover? If you do they bring you good luck!" "Wow, how neat! Yasmeen then
exclaimed. She too began to crawl with the others. Hala just frowned and said, "Yasmeen...
you really shouldn't..." but her friend cut her off before she could finish what
she had to say. "I found one! Now I'm going to have good luck!" Yasmeen shouted.
The next week all sorts
of good things started to happen to Yasmeen. She found her favorite sweater, she
got a new dress from her mother, and she won a math contest at school. Yet she
gave the credit to the four-leaf clover, rather than Allah (SWT) and her own
hard work.
When Yasmeen noticed the
green plant was gone the next week she became very upset. She began to search
everywhere but it wasn't anywhere to be found. That wasn't the end of her
troubles though. She broke a crystal glass and some plates. She tripped over her
book bag and stubbed her toe. She even lost her new sweater. Devastated, she
called Hala and told her of her bad day.
"Oh Yasmeen! Haven't
you learned your lesson yet?" was her friends reply to her awful day. "Yeah, you
should put your four-leaf clover in a treasure chest." Yasmeen said, despite her
tears. "Anyway, I was trying to tell you that clovers don't give you luck. There
is no such thing! Everything happens through Allah's (SWT) will. Did you know
luck charms are haraam?" Yasmeen gasped in reply, so Hala continued saying, "You
should not believe in luck charms, and that they can bring you good or bad luck.
Everything really only happen through Allah's (SWT) will! Believing in luck
charms is like not believing in Allah (SWT)! Yasmeen just gasped again.
"Then she ended the
phone call by saying, "I didn't realize it was that serious! Well, from now on
I'll work hard and never use a luck charm again!" And she kept her promise after
that.
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