Mouna's Story: An Iraqi Girl Struggles to Walk Again

Insh'Allah one day I want to work with Doctors Without Borders - it's a goal I'm working up to. In the mean time, I try to keep posted on what they're doing around the world. This story is about Mouna who lost her legs three years ago in Iraq and is learning to walk again on artificial limbs with the help of MSF surgeons and physiotherapists in Amman, Jordan.












Seeing the excitement on her face as she walks is both an exhilarating and poignant scene. I mean does one even stop to think in between the whining of "I'm too lazy to do that..." of how well-off we are and how ungrateful we can be? If one thing doesn't go as we want, we forget to thank Allah for all of the other blessings he's bestowed on us and instead focus in on this one negative. In fact I constantly have to remind myself of that as well - and that's why it's a good idea to have little iman strengtheners like this.

"Surely with difficulty there is relief" (94.7) Allah isn't going to give you what you can't handle, and if we remain patient throughout these tests our sins will be washed away i'A. I def. feel like little Mouna passed hers, I only wish I could be that patient.