Saturday, July 25, 2009

Indian Muslim woman Bilkis Yakub Rasool holds her son

Mohammad (L) AND husband Yakub (R). Bilkis, a housewife, was gangraped during the 2002 Gujarat riots when she was six months pregnant and also lost her three year old child, mother and two sisters. "Or think you that you will enter Paradise without such (trials) as came to those who passed away before you? They were afflicted with severe poverty and ailments and were so shaken that even the Messenger and those who believed along with him said, "When (will come) the Help of Allah?" Yes! Certainly, the Help of Allah is near!" (Al-Baqarah 2:214)