As'salamu Alaikum dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
Please don't feel obligated to reply. I just wanted to let you know that my father just went to his Creator an hour ago. It is the morning of the day of
Arafah (or Arafat), one day before
Eid Al-Adha. Tomorrow is the Eid. May Allah Almighty grant my father Paradise. Ameen. He died on a blessed and sacred day. Insha'Allah, this is a good Sign from Allah Almighty. May Allah Almighty also grant all of our Believers Paradise. Ameen. I may or may not be able to be active for a week.
Abdallah is gone. Abdallah in my name is my father's name. From my youth, he used point his finger towards me and say: This kid, if he puts his head into something, he will excel in it. My father used to tell me this. He engraved perseverance into me from my earliest days. He taught me to never quit. I miss him a lot already. I am in tears as I type this.
This is the first copy of the Glorious Quran I ever owned in the USA:
My father bought it and gave it to me. And from this Holy Quran's footnotes and indexes and table of content, I wrote many of this site's earliest articles and rebuttals.
See them all here.
Take care,
Osama Abdallah
