I had just walked in through the main door with my 3 month old baby in my arms.

And put my keys into the front door to open it, I heard a crashing sound.
Something hit my arm and I felt my legs give way beneath me.

My baby rolled out of my arms onto the paved ground near our front door.
I do not remember much but I picked her up within seconds(I could only see her everything around me was getting darker), she had been asleep and the fall jolted her awake and she was crying.

Someone opened the main door and removed something from me and helped me get up.

I was calm,but MIL and the neighbours walked in and were getting hysterical, most thought that something had happened to the baby, because the blanket she was wrapped in had my blood on it.

I phoned my husband and told him calmy to come home, in the meantime his friend who had helped me up had called him and told him that a window from the third floor had fallen on me (my husband thought he was joking).

But that is exactly what had happened.
Somehow the third floor windows had come loose and it was a windy day, which might have rattled the windows hard enough for it to come undone(it was those sliding windows).
It had fallen and hit a ledge and then fallen onto my head, the window was on my head and I did not realise it.The window frame had fallen through my head and onto my arm, which had numbed my arm and my baby had rolled out of my arms.
I was numb on my head,but no blackness or dizziness.

I went to the hospital on my husbands bike holding an ice pack to my head, everyone else thought I was crazy,but I did feel fine.

Doctors cleaned and put some medication on the cuts on my head and prescribed medication and suggested I come in later if I felt dizzy or nauseaus.
I had cuts on my fingers and toes and head.I knew how sharp the glass was when I looked in the mirror and found a part of my hair literally chopped off when the glass fell.

My baby did not even have any inuries, just a graze on her nose which must have been when she rolled out of my arm onto the ground.

My daughter is now 2 years old, and she is fine and I am fine too.
Nothing has happened to me physically in relations to this incident.

This incident changed my outlook on life forever, I believe I was saved by the grace of the Almighty.
I had always being a believer in my heart,but never had I thought that I needed to be a practising believer to have much benefit.
This incident brought me to my senses, that if I had died on that day,I had not been ready to meet my Creator.
I wanted to be better and a firm believer.

This incident was one of the turning points in my life from mere believer to a firmbeliever, along with the birth of my baby and the Asian Tsunami.

Was it mere chance or luck or divine will?

Good morning FB! It is around 8:30 a.m. where I live. This was a very interesting read and I am very thankful that there wasn't any permanent damage to you and your baby. While I was reading it, I was getting nervous about the whole thing thinking this just happened to you until I managed to get closer to the end.

If this is what turned you into a firmbeliever, why are you questioning it? Has something happened that has made you question your faith at the moment? If you believe that this was divine intervention created to wake you up to realize you needed to be closer to the creator, it shouldn't matter what others think or believe. If you believe, in your heart, this to be true, then it is. What someone else believes should have no bearing on your own perspective.

Good morning FB! It is around 8:30 a.m. where I live. This was a very interesting read and I am very thankful that there wasn't any permanent damage to you and your baby. While I was reading it, I was getting nervous about the whole thing thinking this just happened to you until I managed to get closer to the end.

If this is what turned you into a firmbeliever, why are you questioning it? Has something happened that has made you question your faith at the moment? If you believe that this was divine intervention created to wake you up to realize you needed to be closer to the creator, it shouldn't matter what others think or believe. If you believe, in your heart, this to be true, then it is. What someone else believes should have no bearing on your own perspective.

Sorry about scaring you!

No, my faith is stronger than ever.
This month being an extra spiritual month for us, this incident kept coming up in my thoughts and where better than here to share my experience.

The question is not because of a receding faith,but just a thought which does not really need an answer because as you mentioned it has already being answered.

Thank you for your thoughts and concern.

Ahhhh, I didn't realize that this is an extra spiritual month for you. I understand fully what you are saying. Just out of my own curiousity because I do like to learn about others spiritual beliefs, what is it about this month that makes it different from any other month?

This is the month Quran was revealed to Muhammad (pbuh) and this whole month in the Islamic calendar is for obligatory fasting for all muslims, unless healthwise incapable.

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Ramadan: Month of Holy Quran, Month of soul purification, Ramadan and Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) (http://www.ezsoftech.com/ramadan/ramadan01.asp)
Fasting in the month of Ramadan, like Namaaz (prayers) is a divine command. Allah says in the Holy Quran, "O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard (against evil)." (2:183)

It was reserved for Islam to formulate and perfect a form of spiritual purification for every one of its followers, notwithstanding the state of society they belonged to, and which could be performed without interfering with their normal avocations and callings in every day life.

Whatever calling or vocation he is engaged in, does not hinder a Muslim from carrying out this annual requirement of the Faith, the fast of this month of Ramadan, which incidentally, is also one of the five cardinal points of Islamic tenet.

The Muslim fast means a complete abstention from eating or drinking between daybreak and sunset. The sighting of the thin sickle of the new moon of Ramadan heralds for the Muslim the beginning of a month of glory and of spiritual elevation, when, at Allah's command, he voluntarily and of his own free will, denies himself between day-break and sunset, the blessing of food and drink, and surrenders himself up wholly to Allah, observing the same abstention throughout the whole month in his thoughts, his speech, his behavior, his every act.

For this month, for the Muslim, means the triumph of the spiritual and the pure in his nature over all the grossness and carnation, which is an inevitable component of our human make-up. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in the following words beautifully explains the actual significance of the fast: -

"One who, while fasting, does not guard his tongue from telling lies, does not refrain from doing bad deeds, is not respecting his fast and Allah does not approve of mere abstention from food". When you are keeping fast, you should not speak ill of anybody, nor should you be boisterous and noisy. If anybody speaks ill of you or tries to pick a quarrel with you return him not, but say unto him that you are fasting.

Divine Revelation: Ramadan however, has another deeper significance for the Muslim, Ramadan's greatness is manifest in the fact that Almighty Allah chose it for the revelation of His Scriptures from time to time.

Abraham [Ibrahim (A.S.)] received scriptures on the first or third of Ramadan, David [Dawood (A.S.)] on the twelfth or the eighteenth, Moses [Musa (A.S.)] on the sixth, and Jesus [Esa (A.S.)] on the twelfth or the thirteenth of Ramadan.

It was in the very month of Ramadan that the Holy Quran, the last revealed Book, started descending upon Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW). It testifies: (Ramadan is the month in which was sent down the Quran as a guide to mankind... ) (2:185)

But the Holy Quran, the divine revelation from Allah to mankind through the medium of our Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), has remained. In every Ramadan the Muslims celebrate the spiritual significance of that divine fact the eternal abiding permanence of the Holy Quran.

During this Holy month therefore, the Muslim takes himself more assiduously to the reading of the Holy Book of Allah, the standing miracle of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), the miracle which he stated would remain to testify to the authenticity of Allah's message even after he, Muhammad (S.A.W.) passed away.

Throughout this holy month, therefore, from every Muslim home is heard, during the day and night, the pleasant and beautiful cadences of Quranic recitation.

Then there is the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) saying as an incentive to renewed reading of the Holy Quran especially in this month: "A man gets the same reward by reading one verse of the Holy Quran as others do by reading the whole of the Holy Quran in other months." In this holy month of Ramadan it should be the duty of every Muslim to read the Holy Quran and thereby gain an insight into the Divine secrets. It breathes peaceful spirit to the human body. It imparts purity to the human soul and removes many a curtain hanging between man and God.

As the month of Ramadan is a specified period of purification, so the Holy Quran must carefully be studied by every devotee of Islam for self-guidance. Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth and the Holy Quran a light for the seekers of truth. It wards off the evil effect of unhealthy atmosphere, it sanctifies the cause of the fast and keeps the true believer in direct communion with Allah, and it does but speaks His own words.

Only constant experience can tell the tremendous amount of pleasure one finds in reading the Holy Quran.

"Says verily, my prayer, my sacrifices, my living and my dying are but offerings to Allah, the Lord of Creation" - like a beacon of hope for the faithful, these heartening words occur in the Holy Quran to strengthen the hearts of the believing Muslim in the realness of their whole-hearted surrender to Allah.

What has the believing Muslim to fear after reading this clear promise by Allah of His nearness to His servants, not only throughout this life but also in the hereafter?

In the holy month of Ramadan, especially, this promise of Allah's has a particular significance for the believing Muslim who dedicates his prayers and his sacrifices (in the form of his fasts) up to Allah, the Lord of Creation.

Ramadan is the month of soul purification:


The Month of Ramadan is also the month souls are purified. The social scientists studying ethics believe that acquiring ideal sublime and ethical conscience passes through three stages:

1. Getting rid of bad habits and attitudes;
2. Acquiring new good traits and habits;
3. Strengthening and crystallizing these traits.

To Allah we shall return at two bows length or nearer. O man, strive hard towards your Lord until you meet Him.

In this respect I believe that the month of Rajab, as it was related, is the month of asking forgiveness for one's guilt's and sins, and it is also the month of the Prince of the Faithful (A.S), while in the month of Shaaban Muslims try to acquire the manners of the greatest Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and then they will strengthen them and crystallize them in the month of Ramadan. Thus the month of Ramadan is the month of generosity, and feeding all who are needed.


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Thank you for sharing that. Very interesting. It does seem to parallel Judiasm in a way. Although they don't fast for the month, but their day of fasting just passed.

I believe we come from the same source(One God) so we must have similarities.

Are you Jewish?(EDIT:::but you did say "they" not "us" in your post, so you are not Jewish?):)
And this one day fast is only a day,24 hours?

I was just remarking about it because it is on my calendar and I was discussing with a friend when her daughter would be off from school last month. She pointed out Rosh Hoshanah & Yom Kippur. Yes, it is only a day. I am not that familiar with it but from what I remember it is considered the day of atonement. The fasting is part of the ritual to atone for the sins of the past year. I don't remember how Rosh Hoshanah figures into it ( I don't remember what that holiday means), which is a two day holiday the week prior to Yom Kippur. The kids in the U.S. get the days off from school, even if they aren't Jewish. I guess it is the balancer to the Christian holidays that are taken off.

Divine will would be my thoughts. Your baby was unharmed, except for being scared. Your injuries were minor. You both could have been killed. I believe you had the Hand of God on you and your baby. Some would say it was a mere accident but truly, there was powerful intervention on behalf of you and your daughter.

Blessings to you and your daughter.

I'm just glad that you and your kids are okay :)

Me too,
Thanks Marily!