Wael Ibrahim – True Empathy – No Experience Needed

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