Wael Ibrahim – True Empathy – No Experience Needed

Wael Ibrahim
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning from one's past experiences and embracing the power of others. He emphasizes the need for a caring heart and a true believer in Allah to regain strength and health. He also warns of the harms of falling into dangerous zones and advises people not to come closer to them.

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