He has white hair.

Today at school I bumped into Mimin and her husband Raoul. Mimin is an Indonesian lady who is also a mom to a student in Taufik's school. She is probably about my age, and her husband looks like he is in his sixties - if I had to estimate.

As I was chatting with Raoul, Taufik was on my hips studying him. He turned to me and said rather loudly, "Mommy, this man has white hair. He is old. He is going to die soon and go back to Allah." Oh my gosh, how I wish the earth would swallow me up. Fortunately, Raoul did not hear what he said, but he did hear the part where Taufik said he had white hair. He jokingly said, "I put flour in my hair when I am baking." and chuckled quite happily to himself.

How on earth did this come about you wonder?

Well, once I was telling Taufik that so and so is old and so she is not so strong. Taufik asked me, "Mommy, what is old." For the life of me I couldnt think of an explanation better than the one I came up with. I told him that old people have white hair, and old people are people who have lived here on earth for a long time. Meaning that their white hair might mean that they will meet Allah soon. They will die and not return back to earth but be in Jannah.

And so just about everyone he meets who has white hair will be going back to Allah soon.

MashaAllah!