The first day we went their to get our memberships, my husband and I were so wonderfully surprised by the friendly attitude and gesture demonstrated by a very sweet lady. She took the trouble to come all the way around the table to explain a system to us which was pretty much self explanatory. She spoke to the point but she was so kind and it felt like we had known her all our lives. In fact we had just moved into the city and she gave us a very warm welcome. The beauty was that we were not customers but just using a free facility so it must have been really genuine how caring she seemed. So my husband and I walked out of the library that day smiling and saying to ourselves that she was the first friendliest person we met in Arizona.
Today at the library I went to the desk to make it known to them that two dvds I borrowed did not work. Although the due date approached and I had already returned them I was hoping they could check my records and correct the situation if necessary. However to my surprise I found this lady quite rude and very abrupt. She interrupted my sentences and spoke to me as if I had done something wrong. May be she just had a bad day. but I was thinking and thanking God that it was the other lady that I met first and not this one.
So why am i writing about this in my religious blog. This experience reminded me that when i go out I am dressed as a a muslim and reveal my identity as a Muslim. When you look at a man its hard to tell if he is a muslim or not but a woman on the other hand is walking with the label "Muslim" on. Everything we do affects not only hoe we are being perceived as a person but how indeed our religion is looked at. I told myself no matter how bad my day was or whether i just fell off a roof, I would always be nice to people. I would always try to make them happy just like that lady did on the first day I went to the library. I hope that you will too!
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