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Beneath me is a thin, extra-long twin mattress. In my hands is a tattered mushaf<\/em>, too thick to easily hold even in two hands. I\u2019m sitting in a dorm room for the first time at UC Santa Barbara with the ocean\u2019s waves playing softly in the distance. A mustard yellow dupatta pulls itself uncomfortably around my neck as I stumble through reading Surah Al-Mulk in Arabic. I hope my roommate and friend isn\u2019t watching too closely as she sits on the bed next to mine with her phone, but I\u2019m struggling so much to finish reading in time for dinner that I don\u2019t have much energy to spare for feeling self-conscious.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Companion In The Grave\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

This devotion to reading Surah al-Mulk is new, and something I\u2019m doing solely for myself. Some random lady at a masjid wearing a niqab told me that reading it every night will make it a companion in my grave that will save me from being punished.1<\/a><\/sup>https:\/\/sunnah.com\/tirmidhi:2891<\/span> That sounds like a hack I\u2019m willing to believe in and implement.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fear of the punishment of Hell is supposed to be a great motivator for Muslims; otherwise, why would it be mentioned in the Quran in horrifying detail? But when I hear about the punishments of Hell, I don\u2019t break a sweat. Sorry\u2026Hell? It\u2019s just too abstract and theoretical to impact me. I\u2019ve got to die first, wait for the entire world to end in an insane earthquake, be resurrected, and go through the Day of Judgment with all of humanity, and then maybe eventually I\u2019ll be thrown into a pit of fire. I\u2019ve got a <\/span>lot<\/span><\/i> of time before any of that happens. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what truly scares me is what is real in this world: that\u2019s the punishment in the grave. If I read a few words about life in the grave, I\u2019m paranoid for a whole day and sobered up for a good week. Why? Because I\u2019ve been to a cemetery, prayed a funeral prayer with a dead body in front of the congregation, smelled the sickly scents inside of a morgue, and seen a fresh pile of earth next to an empty grave. To me, that\u2019s real, and I could be in my own grave tomorrow night, for all I know.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I spend the hour break during student government camp at sixteen years old, making sure I deal with my life in the grave adequately. It is a miracle I am there in the first place\u2013but a miracle with conditions. I could go <\/span>if<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>only if<\/span><\/i> I promised I would <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> a) attend the dance, and b) perform in the skit\/dance competition between schools. It was something I put on the table outright when negotiating going on a multi-day-and-night co-ed trip. My parents were already not fans of my decision to join the student government, and going to this camp was unofficially mandatory for everyone. I knew I was pushing my luck, but they eventually signed the permission slip and I packed my bags before they could change their minds!<\/span><\/p>\n

That<\/em> Night<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s from out of these very bags that I pull the full-blown carpet janaamaz<\/em>, my yellow namaz dupatta<\/em> with the tiny Sindhi mirrors studded all over it, and my mushaf every day of the trip. I admit, it\u2019s an assortment of odd additions to what could easily be a trip brimming with unabashed rule-breaking away from home. There are two things I would guard on this trip, no matter what: praying all five prayers every day, even if they are all late, and reading Surah Al-Mulk before I sleep. These are not things I promised my parents. These are not things they ask me to do or keep track of at home. These are things I do to prepare myself for my grave.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Surah

“There are two things I would guard on this trip, no matter what: praying all five prayers every day, even if they are all late, and reading Surah Al-Mulk before I sleep.” [PC: Md Mahdi (unsplash)]t<\/span><\/p><\/div>t<\/span><\/p>\n

My friend disturbs me as our free time concludes, saying she\u2019s off to meet the others for dinner if I want to join her now. I haven\u2019t finished, but I\u2019ll wrap it up before bed. The next couple of hours aren\u2019t extraordinary\u2013eating dinner in the cafeteria and attending a leadership seminar of some sort. After that is the big dance, which I am <\/span>not <\/span><\/i>attending, of course. I run into some minor problems, though: nobody else is going to the dorm, and I\u2019m worried about walking by myself at night on an unfamiliar college campus, and I\u2019ll be passing right by the dance that\u2019s happening in a courtyard along the way. I\u2019m already feeling hesitant about being alone, and I\u2019m very aware of the fact that I\u2019m definitely the black sheep in the student government group. As I try to figure out how to get back to the dorm on my own at the top of the steps towards the festivities, some of the seniors press me to join them. It only takes a couple of entreaties, and my curiosity takes the best of me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I descend the concrete steps into Dante\u2019s Inferno with the gaggling group of senior girls, a reluctant smile on my face. I\u2019m going to my first high school dance and I know this is the only time I\u2019ll ever get away with it. Maybe prom won\u2019t be too much to ask for in two years\u2026? I pass Mr. Garcia, the teacher in charge of our high school\u2019s group, and see a smirk flit across his face. He knows I\u2019m breaking my moral code because I expressly told him I need to be excused from all dancing activities for religious reasons. I push it from my mind and tell myself to see what this quintessential high school experience is all about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the night goes poorly. Although I\u2019m no stranger to dance parties with my sisters and our friends, I can\u2019t relax here. My shoulders are tense, my throat is tight, and my jaws feel hot the same way they get when I\u2019m lying. I can\u2019t make myself smile, and my limbs jerk in an awkward way when I try to groove along to a beat. I have danced to these very songs so many times, but here, I\u2019m too aware that the air is heavy with teenage sexual angst. I try to ignore it, but I\u2019m too busy being disgusted and feeling guilty for breaking my promise to my parents and going against my personal code. I finally see what grinding looks like in person, and I am horrified; particularly to see some girls I look up to partaking in what looks like a pre-mating ritual. I get what all the hullabaloo about banning it from school dances is about now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think of another tactic: I take in the oppressive air and use the energy to my strategic advantage towards a cute, unassuming white guy from my school that I\u2019ve been nursing a crush on for a while. This is my chance to make a tiny move\u2013nothing too extreme. I\u2019m trying to muster up the courage, but I can\u2019t breathe enough to propel myself into action. Is the air as thick as slime, or is it just me? I look around and want to close my eyes to everything I see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All I wanted to do was have a good time!<\/em> I scream at myself in my mind. Grudgingly, I know it\u2019s not going to happen here. I\u2019m not like the rest of them, even the other Pakistani girl who is also Muslim and has been empathetically nudging me towards all the haram things that the others do. I can\u2019t be like the rest of them, even if I want to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I decide to leave before I can witness more of my classmates’ t strange escapades, not sparing a care about getting back to the dorm on my own. I nudge my roommate and tell her I\u2019m not feeling well and need to bounce. Luckily for me, she has a headache and wants to knock out. We walk towards the steps, and I make sure to wave down my teacher and let him know we\u2019re leaving. I hope he chokes on the fact that I only spent half an hour here and had a horrible time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not Tonight, My Friend<\/h2>\n

Twenty years later, I admit that I have thought about that night often, particularly when I feel tired and would rather sleep than read Surah Al-Mulk. They say that the Quran can be a companion, and when I hope it can be a companion in my grave, I remember wearing the dupatta while reading the surah and hearing the ocean. I remember walking down the steps to the dance into the muggy air pregnant with teenage titillation. I remember feeling like I was moving through sludge even though I thought I could indulge in a secret night away. I wonder how I could do such opposing things in the same night. I feel the surah wrapping its mustard yellow wings around me in an embrace. Holding me, it whispers\u2013<\/span>not tonight, my friend. I’ve got you. <\/span><\/i>Somehow, it was my wingman back then, saving me that one night and thus probably on many others.\u00a0 <\/span>I remember that night when I can hardly look at myself in the mirror from the shame and guilt from my sins of the day and feel that I am not worthy of reading Surah Al-Mulk. But we’ve experienced so much together since that night at UCSB. I owe it so much and I know I can\u2019t leave it hanging now.\u00a0 Once I’m six-feet under, I I hope it returns the favor and clings onto me.<\/p>\n

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Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Lessons From Surah Al-Mulk: How The Bees And Birds Teach Us About Tawakkul<\/a><\/p>\n

– Surah Al Waqiah Paid My Tuition Twice<\/a><\/p>\n

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