This story was recounted by Prof.
Khalid Al-Jubeir, consulting
cardiovascular surgeon, in one of
his lectures: Once I operated on a
two and a half year old child. It
was Tuesday, and on Wednesday
the child was in good health. On
Thursday at 11:15 am – and I’ll
never forget the time because of
the shock I experienced – one of
the nurses informed me that the
heart and breathing of the child
had stopped. I hurried to the child
and performed cardiac massage for
45 minutes and during that entire
time the heart would not work.
Then, ALLAH decreed for the heart
to resume function and we thanked
HIM. I went to inform the child’s
family about his condition. As you
know, it is very difficult to inform
the patient’s family about his
condition when it’s bad. This is one
of the most difficult situations a
doctor is subjected to but it is
necessary. So I looked for the
child’s father whom I couldn’t find.
Then I found his mother. I told her
that the child’s cardiac arrest was
due to bleeding in his throat; we
don’t know the cause of this
bleeding and fear that his brain is
dead. So how do you think she
responded? Did she cry? Did she
blame me? No, nothing of the sort.
Instead, she said
“Alhamdulillah” (All Praise is due to
ALLAH) and left me. After 10 days,
the child started moving. We
thanked ALLAH and were happy
that his brain condition was
reasonable. After 12 days, the
heart stopped again because of the
same bleeding. We performed
another cardiac massage for 45
minutes but this time his heart
didn’t respond. I told his mother
that there was no hope. So she
said: “Alhamdulillah. O ALLAH, if
there is good in his recovery, then
cure him, O my Lord.” With the
grace of ALLAH, his heart started
functioning again. He suffered six
similar cardiac arrests till a trachea
specialist was able to stop the
bleeding and the heart started
working properly. Now, three and a
half months had passed and the
child was recovering but did not
move. Then just as he started
moving, he was afflicted with a
very large and strange pus-filled
abscess in his head, the likes of
which I had never seen. I informed
his mother of the serious
development. She said
“Alhamdulillah” and left me. We
immediately turned him over to the
surgical unit that deals with the
brain and nervous system and they
took over his treatment. Three
weeks later, the boy recovered
from this abscess but was still not
moving. Two weeks pass and he
suffers from a strange blood
poisoning and his temperature
reaches 41.2°C (106°F). I again
informed his mother of the serious
development and she said with
patience and certainty:
“Alhamdulillah. O ALLAH, if there is
good in his recovery, then cure
him.” After seeing his mother who
was with her child at Bed#5, I
went to see another child at Bed#
6. I found that child’s mother
crying and screaming, “Doctor!
Doctor! Do something! The boy’s
temperature reached 37.6°C
(99.68°F)! He’s going to die! He’s
going to die!” I said with surprise,
“Look at the mother of that child in
Bed#5. Her child’s fever is over
41°C (106°F), yet she is patient
and praises ALLAH.” So she replied:
“That woman isn’t conscious and
has no senses”. At that point, I
remembered the great Hadith of
the Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa
Sallam): “Blessed are the
strangers.” Just two words… but
indeed two words that shake a
nation! In 23 years of hospital
service, I have never seen the likes
of this patient sister. We continued
to care for him. Now, six and a
half months have passed and the
boy finally came out of the
recovery unit – not talking, not
seeing, not hearing, not moving,
not smiling, and with an open chest
in which you can see his beating
heart. The mother changed the
dressing regularly and remained
patient and hopeful. Do you know
what happened after that? Before I
inform you, what do you think are
the prospects of a child who has
passed through all these dangers,
agonies, and diseases? And what do
you expect this patient mother to
do whose child is at the brink of
the grave and who is unable to do
anything except supplicate and
beseech ALLAH? Do you know what
happened two and a half months
later? The boy was completely
cured by the mercy of ALLAH and
as a reward for this pious mother.
He now races his mother with his
feet as if nothing happened and he
became sound and healthy as he
was before. The story doesn’t end
here. This is not what moved me
and brought tears to my eyes.
What filled my eyes with tears is
what follows: One and a half years
after the child left the hospital,
one of the brothers from the
Operations Unit informed me that
a man, his wife and two children
wanted to see me. I asked who they
were and he replied that he didn’t
know them. So I went to see them,
and I found the parents of the
same child whom I operated upon.
He was now five years old and like
a flower in good health – as if
nothing happened to him. With
them also was a four-month old
newborn. I welcomed them kindly
and then jokingly asked the father
whether the newborn was the 13th
or 14th child. He looked at me
with an astonishing smile as if he
pitied me. He then said, “This is
the second child, and the child
upon whom you operated is our
first born, bestowed upon us after
17 years of infertility. And after
being granted that child, he was
afflicted with the conditions that
you’ve seen.” At hearing this, I
couldn’t control myself and my
eyes filled with tears. I then
involuntarily grabbed the man by
the arm, and pulling him to my
room, asked him about his wife:
“Who is this wife of yours who
after 17 years of infertility has this
much patience with all the fatal
conditions that afflict her first
born?! Her heart cannot be barren!
It must be fertile with Imaan!”Do
you know what he said? Listen
carefully my dear brothers and
sisters. He said, “I was married to
this woman for 19 years and for all
these years she has never missed
the [late] night prayers except due
to an authorized excuse. I have
never witnessed her backbiting,
gossiping, or lying. Whenever I
leave home or return, she opens
the door, supplicates for me, and
receives me hospitably. And in
everything she does, she
demonstrates the utmost love,
care, courtesy, and compassion.”
The man completed by saying,
“Indeed, doctor, because of all the
noble manners and affection with
which she treats me, I’m shy to lift
up my eyes and look at her. So I
said to him: “And the likes of her
truly deserve that from you.” The
End… ALLAH says: And We will
surely test you with something of
fear and hunger and a loss of
wealth and lives and fruits, but give
good tidings to the patient; Who,
when calamity strikes them, say,
“Indeed we belong to ALLAH, and
indeed to HIM we will return.”
Those are the ones upon whom are
blessings from their Lord and
mercy. And it is those who are the
[rightly] guided. (Surah Al-Baqarah
155-157) Umm Salamah (the wife
of the Prophet) said: I heard the
Messenger of ALLAH (Sallallaahu
Alaihi Wa Sallam) saying: “There is
no Muslim who is stricken by a
calamity and says what ALLAH has
commanded him – ‘Indeed we
belong to ALLAH, and indeed to
Him we will return; O ALLAH,
reward me for my affliction and
compensate me with that which is
better’ – except that ALLAH will
grant him something better in
exchange.” When Abu Salamah [her
former husband] passed away, I
said to myself: “What Muslim is
better than Abu Salamah?” I then
said the words, and ALLAH gave me
the Messenger of ALLAH
(Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) in
exchange. (Sahih Muslim)

^Inspiring stuff.

I'm in tears, we have been given such an incredible Deen. True strength comes from Allah, I know a few stories like this. Only a true believer has this kind of strength.

Time to write a new thread.

Mhsanni


Beautiful story

This is a very good one. Thanks for sharing OP

@OP,this is inspiring.May Allah grant us patience and reward us for being patient.

Subhanallah!!! This is so touching, couldnt help the tears frm dropping.
May Almighty Allah grant every true muslim the strenght to overcome trials and tribulations.

Oh Allah! strength our iman, count us among the pious and grant us Aljana fridaus.