Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:
"Be pleased with everything that Allāh does with you. For indeed He does not prevent you except to give you. He does not test you except to protect and save you. He does not give you ill health except to cure you. He does not give you death except to give life to you.
So beware of not being pleased with Him even for the blink of an eye. Such that you fall in His eye."
[Madārij as-Sālikīn | 2/208]
Can I be totally honest - if I were Muslim I wouldn’t live in the UK
I think the most hated minority group are Muslims by the political class and white working class in Britain, where it has become mainstream to either ignore & dismiss what many of them go through or politicians actively conflate Islam / all Muslims with Islamic extremism.
This doesn’t happen on the same scale to any other group of people.
You do not hear politicians saying repeatedly if at all
“There is a black problem in our streets”
“There is a Jewish problem infiltrating our governments & media”
You repeatedly hear Islam has no place in Britain , Muslims should not be politicians, politicians support marches calling for Muslims to leave. It’s crazy and I do feel extremely sorry for your average everyday Muslim in the U.K. paying taxes or going about their daily lives not causing harm to anyone which are MOST of them.
In UK training he’d be pushing around a COW behind a locum gen med consultant post-taking the 67th fall a/w PT/OT and POC increase admission of the week.
..before hyper focusing on tertiary disputes by Muslims..
.. is the Quran created? Is Muawiya good or bad? Is Ali better than Umar? Etc..
Have you mastered the themes of the Quran? Monotheism, fairness, justice, praying with humility and the contemplation of God’s might through his creation?
I feel sorry for patients who ask "Have you not read my notes???"
Trying to navigate 20 years of online documentation and 100s of documents with random coding in the problem list that have NO clinical relevance?!?!?
Even with the Search button it's impossible to decipher!
Why the NHS is failing #826363839
1. Fragmentation of care.
It’s almost impossible to read a clinical story in GP notes now. It’s messages and anima requests and “failed encounters” when someone can’t answer the phone. (1/n)
These ayahs always hit me hard.
With the hustle and bustle of life it puts EVERYTHING into perspective.
Allah will ask us how much time we spent on Earth and we will literally say a day or part of a day.
That’s how quick this life will go.
And also the part on “ask those that kept count”.
Most of us are so wasteful with our time.
Before we know it weeks, months and years have passed and what do we have to show for it?
We’re rarely intentional with our time.
Doomscrolling and brain rotting our way to death.
A reminder to myself and those reading that investing into your akhira has MUCH higher ROI than anything you can do for the dunya.
And by invest I don’t just just mean Quran, Dhikr and Salah. These are extremely important. And we should increase our actions especially with Ramadan coming up.
But imo an extremely important part we really need to focus on is our akhlaaq. Being honest and sincere, good to our parents, dealing in halal income alone. etc … these are rare characteristics in this world now … but ones our religion demand of us.
Just like 5x a day prayer. They are obligatory on us.
We can say we’re believers, preach what we believe, but can we walk it?
And lastly to not take your time for granted. It will pass FAST. Plan your time. Make use of it. Don’t let it waste away.
A reflection and reminder to myself tbh.
But something I thought I’d share with you too today.
I just want to be clear, the medical regulator thinks it is worth spending OUR money taking a surgeon to court who worked to save lives during a genocide all because those committing the genocide didn’t like what he shared from his first hand account?
Why?
Seriously, why?
Hind Rajab's mom, Wesam, made this brilliant speech on Saturday:
Ladies & gentlemen,
I'll begin with no introductions.
On January 29, 2024, my daughter Hind Rajab was trapped inside a car, under direct fire.
Hind was a five-year-old child.
At that age, children don't think about politics, & don't know the meaning of war.
All they know is fear… & the hope that someone will come to save them.
Hind didn't die suddenly.
Hind waited.
She waited for help,
For her cries to have meaning.
She said:
"I'm scared…come get me."
This isn't a literary phrase.
This is the last thing a child said,
who knew she might not survive.
She said a sentence that tore my heart apart:
"Mom, they're lying. Stay with me!"
At that moment, I realized the betrayal.
An ambulance was sent to her. It didn't arrive. It was bombed.
This means one thing:
Saving a life wasn't allowed.
Today, 2 years later,
I'm not standing here to tell you a sad story.
I am here to speak about responsibility.
I will pose a weighty question:
What is the value of a human life when it is Palestinian?
Because what happened to my daughter Hind,
Had it happened anywhere else, would have shaken the world.
But it was in Gaza.
And that is why time was allowed to pass,
& the crime to be forgotten.
I ask you to imagine, even for a few seconds,
The magnitude of pain that mothers in Gaza carry when they lose their children.
Imagine the bitterness of the pain,
When you cannot save your child,
Or even reach them,
Or know what their final moments were like.
This pain lives with mothers
every day,
& with every breath.
What happened to Hind is not just a personal story.
It reveals how a child can be left to die, before the eyes of the world, without accountability.
You live in countries that believe in the rule of law,
that teach human rights,
& sign agreements to protect children.
But Hind was not protected.
Nor were the paramedics.
Nor was the truth protected.
I don't blame the people of the world,
but I do hold silence responsible.
The silence that makes the crime possible,
& makes its repetition easy.
Your presence here today
means that you have chosen not to be silent.
And that is important.
But what is more important, is what happens after this event.
Will Hind remain just a name at an event?
Or will she become a turning point?
I am not asking for the impossible.
I am asking for something very simple:
That the life of a Palestinian child be protected… as if it were your own child's life.
If the law cannot save a child, then it is a law that needs to be held accountable.
And if the world only acts when the victim resembles its own children, then the world needs a new conscience.
Hind is no longer here.
But her story is a trust.
And a trust is not preserved with words,
But with actions!
Londoners think it’s a safe place to live, the rest of the UK think otherwise. This aligns with other data where places with low immigration are much more likely to think it’s a problem, showing the effectiveness of media narratives with people who lack experience with the issue.
Imagine someone nicks £40 from your £100.
They give you £20 back, then call you greedy for asking for the rest.
That’s what doctors are facing.
They are being paid 20% less in real terms than they were in 2008.
Full pay restoration is not an unreasonable demand.
“Held by Israel for nine months without charge”
There’s a word for this: “hostage.”
The State of Israel has been holding an American teenager hostage, and our government is silent.