Little Things We Forget
Assalamualaikum, May peace be upon you..
Lately, everyone around me seemed to be very busy with their own life. Studying, playing, going out, etc. Same goes to me. So, I thought it’d be good if we spent some of our time to appreciate the small things that God had given us. Things that we always take for granted and only felt its importance when it’s not there anymore..
1. To be able to eat,drink and taste. Imagine eating ice-cream during a hot day. Refreshing isn’t it? Even swallowing is a very big gift from God. But, when do we appreciate this? When we’ve got that little ulcer in our buccal mucosa and started having trouble eating. Then only we realise, how nice it was, to be able to eat comfortably at any time of the day.
2. To be able to move, walk and run. Learning MSK and CNS had taught me that every single movement that we do requires a complex integration between different parts of our body ie muscles, nerves, brain. Subhanallah. A single problem to any of these will lead to inefficieny in any action that we take. And if you see patients suffering from ‘fits’ where they’ll suddenly loss control of their body, you’ll really be thankful for this gift from God.
3. To be able to feel pain. Yup, feeling pain is an invaluable gift from God. It’s a way for us to sense danger or damage to our body. We shouldn’t hope that we do not have pain sensation. If you see patients with diabetes mellitus, you will realise how important it is to feel pain. Some of them develop symptoms such as loss of sensation especially at distal parts of body ie toes and finger. They do not know if their feet are injured simply because they dont feel it. And this can bring to worse complications such as amputation of toes/feet.
There are soo many gifts from Allah that most of us, including me, simply forget. We tend to complain about things that we don’t have rather than appreciating those we possessed. Our eyesight, hearing, sense of smell.. Each of them is irreplaceable. Yet,when they are taken away from us; not all, even a small part of it, only then we realise its role in our life.
So,instead of complaining about what we don’t have, lets start to be thankful to ALLAH for everything He had and will give us.
Alhamdulillah..
It’s beautiful when we’re thankful to GOD for His bounties and mercy He showered us. All praise to the Supreme Lord of The Worlds, The Most Gracious, and Most Merciful.
kimisawa said this on October 25, 2009 at 7:39 pm
thanks and praise to Allah for all the great n tiny little things that He gives us…without Him..we are zero..totally nothing..n thank you to Allah for His greatest ‘nikmat’ that He bestows uupon all Muslims..the gift of Islam…among millions and trillions others, we are the chosen one…Islam..such a precious gift…coz it will determine where we will head to in our afterlife..our final destination..His Jannah or His Hellfire..
Radhiyatul said this on October 29, 2009 at 8:57 am
hmm..
we always crave for something more..
we ask Him for all sorts of things..
we complained though we have been given things that we want..
yet we always forget that nothing is ours..
every single thing is His..
astaghfirullahalazim,God do forgive us for our negligence and little things that we forget..
Thanks for all your ni’mat dear God~
*thanx for the reminder karim!
aimihamizah said this on October 31, 2009 at 5:47 pm