Are you afraid to be home alone?

Actually when i was a kid growing up in New York City, Queens to be exact. I can remember everybody in the neighbor hood would leave their frontdoors open or unlocked all the time. We owned a 6 story building with people from all walks of life but the neighborhood at that time and in the past was prodomenatly Italian, My Nonna had Muslims in the building as well and everybody left their doors open. My brother and I used to just walk right in our friends house to get their kids and play baseball, or stickball in the street. My Nonna was always cooking stuff(Nonstop) fo reverybody in the building and even the Muslim family would just walk right in and just talk to her, Although she only spoke Italian and Sardo(another dialect of Italian spoken in Sardinia)somehow she comunicated with Arabic speaking folks and other languages as well??Idk.

During the week they would set up a 30 foot table/tables and have a huge dinner party....right in the street! HUndreds of people would come and there was food from like every country you could think of, it was so cool.......Those were the days I miss it

I don't think you would see that now.

My Nonna never closed her front door....ever! She always said "someone could be hungry, they have to eat something right?" She even left it open at night just in case someone needed something...anything. Nobody ever dared to enter with bad intentions.....plus nobody thought that way.

I miss the days when kids could play outside with no worry's of bad people, and others always looked after the neighborhood kids....always.

I wonder if we will ever see that again?

format_quote Originally Posted by Italianguy

Actually when i was a kid growing up in New York City, Queens to be exact. I can remember everybody in the neighbor hood would leave their frontdoors open or unlocked all the time. We owned a 6 story building with people from all walks of life but the neighborhood at that time and in the past was prodomenatly Italian, My Nonna had Muslims in the building as well and everybody left their doors open. My brother and I used to just walk right in our friends house to get their kids and play baseball, or stickball in the street. My Nonna was always cooking stuff(Nonstop) fo reverybody in the building and even the Muslim family would just walk right in and just talk to her, Although she only spoke Italian and Sardo(another dialect of Italian spoken in Sardinia)somehow she comunicated with Arabic speaking folks and other languages as well??Idk.

During the week they would set up a 30 foot table/tables and have a huge dinner party....right in the street! HUndreds of people would come and there was food from like every country you could think of, it was so cool.......Those were the days I miss it

I don't think you would see that now.

My Nonna never closed her front door....ever! She always said "someone could be hungry, they have to eat something right?" She even left it open at night just in case someone needed something...anything. Nobody ever dared to enter with bad intentions.....plus nobody thought that way.

I miss the days when kids could play outside with no worry's of bad people, and others always looked after the neighborhood kids....always.

I wonder if we will ever see that again?

This sounds like something my mother would have said:

My Nonna never closed her front door....ever! She always said "someone could be hungry, they have to eat something right?" She even left it open at night just in case someone needed something...anything. Nobody ever dared to enter with bad intentions.....plus nobody thought that way.

My mother did not even allow a lock to be put on our doors because a hungry person might need food. She also always kept a plate of sandwiches set on the table in case a hungry person happened to come in.

We never had anything bad happen and on occasion we would come home, the sandwiches would be gone, but something would have been done inside the house in exchange such as coal shoveled into the furnace, trash carried out etc.

Here in Zeeland it is still like that. If we happened to run out of food or anything we are welcome to walk into any house and help our selves to anything we need. Our doors are always open too. Nothing in the house anybody would need but we keep food in the Winnebago and the camper in the event we are gone and somebody needs something.

format_quote Originally Posted by Italianguy

You sure your not Italian?.....

Thats good to hear, at least their is still some good somewhere I miss those days I miss those places

Sounds like you get to travel allot? Camper "Winny"?

God bless.

We live in the Winny, we are totally rebuilding the interior of the house. It needs everything, wiring, plumbing, flooring

We do travel a lot. Up until we moved here we averaged nearly 3000 miles a week. Mostly running back and forth to Doctors appointments and the rez. But now we are essentially on the rez and most trips are the 307 miles to the doctor for our weekly appointments.

format_quote Originally Posted by Rashad

^ Wow. Those stories seem like tales to me.

Only because you forgot to be born early enough to live in those days. Although those days still exist in many small towns.

You need to watch more reruns of "Mayberry RFD"(The Andy Griffith Show with Opie and aunt Bea)

im comfortable at home even alone at night cos im respected by my neighbours (who are thugs) cos i give them a tad bit of respect they want and it keeps them off my turf.

Bit like throw the dogs a bone and they wont bark for the meal.

As for the jinns, well they know better than to come in to my house and trouble me

i suppose when you understand the reality of jinns and thier capabilites, you've only got your mind to be warey of.

amazing how the mind can exaggerate even the smallest of knocks and sounds in the house~!!

I vote "No", however, at night it gets a bit scary on your own, but I call upon Allah for safety ..so yeah its all coool Dudes and dudetes

i remember my mum left me alone in the house when i was five to pick up from brother from school which was round the corner. but i got so scared i ran out the house.

i cant remember if my mind was exaggerating or if i actually felt the presence of a jinn in the room with me. Too young to distinguish between the two.

format_quote Originally Posted by abu_musab461

i remember my mum left me alone in the house when i was five to pick up from brother from school which was round the corner. but i got so scared i ran out the house.

i cant remember if my mind was exaggerating or if i actually felt the presence of a jinn in the room with me. Too young to distinguish between the two.

Just curious, but do you still live in the same house? ..
no reason to ask, just wondering lol
because if you still do, do you still get scared, maybe the jinn is still there?

format_quote Originally Posted by Muslim World 12

Just curious, but do you still live in the same house? ..
no reason to ask, just wondering lol
because if you still do, do you still get scared, maybe the jinn is still there?

It my parents house. i moved a while ago when i got married. i do visit them often and most of the time its ok. but then there are those occassions when i feel them around me and if i've got my kids with me then i read the protective duas on them or other times i just opt to leave.

I'm not suprised my fathers has decided to put up his pictures on the wall and the rest of the family allow music to be played in the house, bollywood hollywood, and other sinful thing, there things attract the shaytan and jinns cos they love music and films as much as the next man.

The funny thing was when one of my brothers noticed me doing dua adkhaar on my kids and he was what and why i was doing what i was doing.

Normally i tend not to tell ppl cos they are going to get scared but i decided to tell him and he freaks out lol

tells my parents.

So im like what do u expect mum the Quran is not recited in this house and the prophet (pbuh) said "Do not turn your houses in to grave yards read surah Baqarah in them"

My sister's father in law was there and then he piped up how he dont like staying in our house because he saw a cloudly figure in our loft room when he was sleeping one night.

lol... if only he knew....

Anyway they dont really affect the family and will only bother those who are afraid of them cos i think they get a kick out of pranking and scaring people.

lol

jinns are not doubt evil creatures the kuffar of them, but none the less they definatly dont lack a sense of humour

Are you afraid to be home alone?

By day, no.
but by night....:><:
(there's alway those creecking noise)