Wael Ibrahim – True Empathy – No Experience Needed
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I grew up hearing the phrase that the
one who lacks something can never give it,
can never offer the same thing. But later
in life, I've actually learned that the one
who lacks something might be the one who
is best and most capable of giving it
back, of offering that which he lacks. Look
my dear brothers and sisters in stem and
everyone who's watching. No one can truly feel
what you're going through except someone with humanity,
with a live heart, with a sensible mind,
with a mind that can understand the extent
of the pain that you're going through. Even
if you had never experienced
that same pain. The prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam mentioned,
That you would see the true believers in
regards to the being merciful to one another
like the one body. If one of its
organs
felt any sort of pain or distress, the
entire body organs will share that same ache.
This is the condition of a true believer.
See, we're all missing something in life, and
sometimes this loss makes us broken, full of
intense emotions like anger, frustration, and frustration, and
resentment, and sometimes
deep sadness, jealousy, and perhaps even envy. And
sometimes
that same loss makes us more sensitive, cautious
and more empathetic to one another. A medical
doctor or a surgeon who may operate on
you and open up your body doesn't need
to feel the same illness, the same sickness
in order for him to offer you the
necessary cure and help you out, regain your
strength and regain your health. All he needs
is
knowledge, experience,
and a caring heart. Similarly, a true believer,
a noble heart doesn't accept to see people
starving to death just because he grew up
starving and just because he grew up in
poverty. Such a person
refuses to trample over others just because he
was trampled over in the past. A noble
person, my brothers, my sisters in Islam and
everyone. A true believer in Allah and his
messenger and the final day is constantly grateful
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because he knows
that even the pain that he went through
growing up has a meaning and a value
to it. It was the best teacher in
life and it disciplined him. Every scar on
his body, every emotional pain that he had
experienced
doesn't really hurt him anymore. But rather, they
make him stronger to assist others who might
be going through the same or similar
experiences today. A noble person, a true believer,
my brothers and sisters in Islam. Many a
times, if he lacks something, he is the
most capable of giving it. He is the
most capable of informing people about it. Nobility,
faith, iman, and honor are progressive, are learnable.
Something that you can cultivate.
They can grow better, bigger,
and more effective. So cultivate yourselves my brothers
and sisters in Islam on understanding one another,
feeling for each other, in believing in people's
abilities and their capacity of growing and becoming
better themselves. If you fall in a pit,
mark it, make a sign, make a warning
for others so that they don't fall in
it as you did. But if you never
fall, learn about the harms of falling into
dangerous zones and inform people, advise them not
to even come closer to these dangerous roots.
Because the the fact of the matter, my
brothers, my sisters in Islam and everyone, many
a times someone who lacks something, if he's
noble, if he's a true believer in Allah
and the last day will be able to
give it back better than anyone else. All
it takes is honor, nobility and faith.
Iman