Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except low iron levels with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery. It is worth noting that I have been struggling with intense brain and physical fatigue since 2019 but not a single doctor was able to identify my problem. Once somebody is diagnosed with depression or anxiety then every health issue they complain about is looked from the psychological lenses. Nobody asked me to check iron, vitamin b12 or vitamin d3 deficiencies even my mum who is a dermatologist always assured me that I am fine and this weakness is just a phase. It was a phase alright, it engulfed almost 8 years of my life pushed back my career and research ambitions. This is not the case alone with me but there are many people who silentl...
First
things first, thank you all for writing to me, appreciating my thoughts, theme
of my blog and giving your support. Last few months have been quite
heavy, with work load and sudden illness of a family member. However, Allah has
been very merciful, and now the family member is doing well and is out of
danger.
While
in the midst many things have happened which clouded my thoughts and emotions,
the gruesome and one of the most insane war in Syria has shook me to the core. Everyday
people are dying for no reason, paranoid and schizophrenic world-leaders are
fighting and inciting war for no purpose. Rohingyas are facing ethnic cleansing
and the United Nations has become an ineffective organization.
Every
time when I laugh and enjoy any moment, an unnamed gloom overshadows my joy. We
all are one; the concept of universal brotherhood is there for a reason. We are
all connected with each other, although many of the human species deny this
fact but it is certain that pain, agony and fear in one part of the world
definitely effects everyone, regardless of where we live or how different we
look.
What
upsets me most is the fact that I am helpless, I cannot do anything that would
ease and comfort all those in pain. I, at times wish to become Superwoman, so I
can fly anywhere, fight anyone and take people out of their traumatic
circumstances.
A
human mind struggles to find answers, as to why all this is happening? In Surah
Baqarah’s last verse no. 286 Allah tells us: ‘Allah does not burden a soul more than it could be bear. And it (is
only) that which the soul has earned, and against (only) that which the soul
has deserved.’
If
we try to analyze little Zainab and many other children who were brutally
molested and then murdered, the people who were living in Myanmar and Syria, and
the children who were killed in the Army School, Peshawar, in the light of this
magnificent ayat- then we wonder what these souls, many of whom merely lived 6-7
years on this earth could have done to face this kind of fate. Allah said, It (is only) that which the soul has earned, and against (only)
that which the soul has deserved.
This
clearly means that the body we live in has a soul, then this implies, that our
souls must have existed before they entered in our physical bodies. From this we could deduce, that our souls
might have lived in other physical bodies before our bodies.
And
while our souls resided in those other bodies they must have done something, positive
and/or negative, due to which our current physical body pays the price of those earlier deeds.
In
this regard, the work of Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai
Medical Center in Miami Dr. Brian Weiss is worth studying. Dr. Weis is a
graduate of Columbia University and holds MD from Yale Medical School, he conducts
experiential workshops at national and international forums along with the training
programs for professionals.
During
one of his psychotherapy session his
patient started to recall her past-life traumas which were linked with her current recurring
nightmares and anxiety attacks. Although Dr. Weiss was initially unconvinced and
skeptical, however, as the sessions with his patient progressed he realized
that past-life regression therapy is a powerful therapeutic method.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sonya (Day 574).
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