I remember a teacher I had in elementary school, once telling the class a very interesting story. One day (when she was little) she was walking down the street, near her house, when she was almost hit by a car. However, right before the car was about to hit her, somebody pushed her out of the way and she was saved. The strange thing is that when she turned around to see who had pushed her, nobody was there. This teacher was raised by her father, since her mother had passed away when she was very young and she believed that it was her mother’s spirit/guardian angel who was watching over her and had saved her from being injured or worse.
But of course guardian angels come in many different forms. They do not necessarily have to be actual angels (in religious terms) or spirits. They can also be human beings (such as friends and acquaintances) or even animals (including people’s pets who sometimes help out their owners). Does anyone have any stories of being helped and/or saved by their own particular guardian angel(s), spiritually or otherwise?
I don’t have a story but when I get stuck behind a slow driver on the road when I am in great rush and really feel like speeding, I think of the driver in front of me as my guardian angel for that time.
Recently (well.. six months ago which is not so recent) I was driving alone in downtown when my cousin’s car started acting up. I had to immediately pull over to a parking lot near a cafe, desperately hoping someone would help. I was inwardly praying, praying and praying for someone to show up (I can’t get myself to actually ask for help). Didn’t have my phone with me either. I had no other way of getting home. Everyone was in a rush, nobody seemed to notice my struggle of opening the hood (yes, that’s right. I don’t know how to open that). Suddenly I looked to the left, and this middle aged man was seated on the stairs of a garage (later turned out he was the owner of the cafe). I would’ve sworn he wasn’t there five seconds ago! He walked over and asked if I needed any assistance. Thoroughly inspected the issue, and made multiple, back-in-forth rounds to the cafe and the car carrying huge jugs of water. I later came to know that the car was heated up (I’m sure he told me that, but I was too worried to comprehend anything). I guess he was the guardian angel that this thread describes.
This is all I could think of. Other than this, I haven’t quite experienced anything related to safety. I’m obsessed with ayatul kursi, so I definitely have the least to worry about.
Wait, now I’m starting to feel like whatever I wrote has absolutely no relevance to the thread whatsoever. Too bad. I’m posting it before I backspace it all.
For sure it’s very relevant to the thread.
A lot of people can relate to car trouble scenarios which can be such nightmares if you don’t know how to handle the situation.
Any helping hand at that time is like a Godsend.
Question for you - did you try to give him some money on the spot as a token of appreciation and if so what did the guy say / do ?
Yeah he had a brief conversation with me and told me he owns the cafe. I guess money wouldn’t have been appropriate at the spot as he seemed to be doing it out of humanitarian intentions. I asked him if there’s a way I could compensate for his 20 minutes. He told me it’s not a problem at all and that I should help myself with something in his cafe, to which I declined. Couldn’t have too much banana bread. Not good.
I also have a question for you - what caused such disparity between your previous and current avatars?
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