After working in my first job for just over two months I’ve finally discovered the PRAYER ROOM! Praise be to God - alhamdulillah!

I couldn’t believe it! If you saw where I worked, you’d be shocked too. I work in a small site in Kent. Kent (unlike London, where I graduated) is bereft of many Muslims. There’s no shops for miles around and there’s only 60 men and women working on my site. Of these 60, I’m the only Muslim along with one other student with a summer job. He’ll be gone in a few weeks.

Being the first Muslim here, you can imagine my delight when I saw the luxurious wudu facilities with shower gel and shampoo already inside each cubicle.

Ok, to be honest, they weren’t really wudu facilities and I hadn’t really discovered a prayer room, but it was close enough. And didn’t Jabir Ibn Abdullah narrate that the Prophet (pbuh) said “The earth has been made a place of prostration for me, and a place to perform Tayammum. Thus, my followers can pray wherever they like, when the time of prayer is due” [Bukhari]?

So I decided this would be my new prayer room. What I had actually found was an unused, yet beautiful shower room in the far corner of the building. So this was my personal wudu facilities. But where was I going to pray? Up until now I was praying outside the building, in the car park, near some bushes or anywhere else I could worship my Creator simply because He is my Creator. But it had been raining the last few days and I was looking for something a little more up market.

This is the strangest bit: in the shower room I found a door and opened it. Inside I found myself in a square room. Each wall was about a metre and half long and the room was clean and cosy. It wasn’t a cupboard because the lock was on the inside and not on the outside. Perfect to come in, lock the door, pray comfortably in peace and then leave. And that’s exactly what I did and have been doing for the last week.

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