I try to read some of the Qur’an every night and I just got to Al-Rahman, which reminded me of something that happened two years ago.

I was in Cairo, and I went with my aunt to visit the grave of her husband, who was like an angel that walked among men. We said our salaams, read Ya Sin, and asked Allah to have mercy on him, and then it occurred to me to read to him Al-Rahman. So I began reading it silently and, having read one quarter or one third of it, my aunt headed back to the car.

In Cairo, every family builds a room inside the cemetery, with a locked gate, and members of the family are all buried inside that room. There are roads passing through between all these family cemeteries and so the car was parked right outside the room.

My aunt started calling for me to come and I didn’t want to keep her waiting but I also didn’t want to stop without having finished the Sura. But all of a sudden, I heard someone reciting the same verse that I had reached, with me, at the same speed as if we were reading it together, despite the fact that I had been reading silently! The voice came from right outside the door, where the car was, and I just couldn’t believe that whoever it was, that they began at the same exact verse I was on!

I was quite confused for a moment but then I smiled, knowing that Allah had sent someone to finish the Sura for me, for the sake of my aunt’s amazing husband, rahimahullah. And so I left and got into the car and we drove off, and I didn’t even look to see who was doing the recitation.

Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny? (Al-Rahman)