Tamara Gray – Maryams (as) Miracle upon Miracle Shaykha

She didn't run away and don't say, well, she was Miriam even Jono

Jonah ran away. He was a prophet better than all of us, better than

all of us. Mariam, she didn't run away

from something that would have been so incredibly difficult. I

just, I can't even, I can't even. It's difficult sometimes to face

family members because you broke their favorite mug.

You don't want to bring the mug in and say, oh gosh,

you know, I broke the mug. Sorry.

She or valuable, whatever she came with a baby,

a baby,

and had the expectation, the full expectation, that Allah spent out

would take care of her and the baby spoke

in Allah

Miriam's story is a story of miracles.

Her own birth, the temple accepting her at all. Temple back

then didn't take in women. Don't forget.

The temple accepting her at all. Her uncle Zakaria also miracle in

the birth of Yahya

Miriam's life, the coming of Jibreel Gabriel to her miracle in

the form of a human being. Miracle,

her shaking of a tree. Miracle,

a baby that spoke miracle,

Miracle after miracle after miracle. If she was a young woman,

some of the misogyny in the world today would have us believe that

somehow women are not worthy of miracles, or somehow that women

are not quite as good as men, unfortunately, we have in

different places and spaces in the Muslim community,

people that feel it's okay to make jokes about women,

to look down on women, to not allow women on mustard boards, to

not understand the incredible contributions that women make to

community,

but we stand in mediums shade, Ali has Salam

and whatever anybody else might say or think or do, we stand

firmly two feet on the ground,

and our hearts able to expand and accept our life conditions,

whatever they are, and find the hair in it, find what is it was

that? What do we need to learn from these conditions?