Hafiz Aslam told us this story too

I'm at the second mufti mudassir lecture in the Ramadan 2007 series:

 

"Zindagi Ki Buniyad - Allah Ka Khauf Aur Allah Se Ummeed"

 

http://www.bayaans.org/Ramadan2007/allah_ka_khauf_aur_ummeed.mp3 

 

which I get from:

http://www.bayaans.org/ramadan2007.html 

 

I'm referring to the story about the woman who built some water pipelines or something to alleviate the difficulties of hajj for the hujjaj. She passed away later on. So she and others figured that she must be going to Jannah for that. One person saw her in a dream (yes this is possible, we believe in the karamah of a awliya according to aqeedah tahawiyya, i'll let you read up on the details of it)... well anyway, in that dream this woman told the dreamer that when she presented this deed to Allah, it wasn't accepted cuz the money used was from government money anyway. But she entered Jannah anyway because one day she was eating, and the adhan started from a local Masjid, and she fell in a deep state of awe at the greatness of Allah, and she stopped eating and fixed her scarf to cover all of her hair (it was slipping off). .... and that was the action, although small, but packed with sincerity by which Allah entered her into Jannah.

 

And for the record, Hafiz Aslam heard this story from Shaykh Zulfiqaar Ahmed Naqshbandi at an ijtima in Sacramento around 2.5-3.5 years or so ago. And also for the record, I don't know where Mufti Mudassir heard/read it.

 

But its def worth listening to Mufti Mudassir tell the story directly.