Alhamdulillah

By: Hadeel Salman

Grateful I should be when my vision is here with me, not lost or frost or suffered agony. Alhamdulillah...I can see my family my friends all what Allah created for me...I can see.

Grateful I must be when my hearing is not gone and my ears are still receiving all the sounds around me nearing. Alhamdulillah... with no fear I can say I can hear.

And when I think of my words, how I speak and can be heard, how my voice can imitate all the chirping of the birds, I feel grateful knowing that I have a tongue that can speak in all languages even in Greek. Most of all I can say Allah’s name in Dhikr and Shukr. What more than that should I care for... my tongue is here and that... I am grateful for... Alhamdulillah.

What about the places I go and distances I cross! After Allah’s will what takes me there? If it weren’t for the blessings of having legs, and how Allah harnessed them to my caress, I wouldn’t have moved as I have wished. But Alhamdulillah... I have my legs and I can walk far away distances without any aide.

Alhamdulillah, I have my hands and I can write this poem you are witnessing through your sight. Words of truth that won’t ever fade. Alhamdulillah I have my hands.

I have my heart and it does beat. Alhamdulillah it’s not in my hands to treat.

I have a house with 4 walls, a shelter for me and my family... Alhamdulillah.

I have food and we can eat. How about the millions with nothing to feed?

I have clothes to snuggle in warming my breath. What about those who daily freeze to death?

I have all of the above blessings and an endless list. Writing them down will tire up my wrist.

So when we’re out of power and feel some cold, we lose privileges of texting and watching... gaming and playing.

Our sight is here but our insight is gone... Our words are spoken but the wisdom becomes a pun.

Our endless blessings all of a sudden seemed to vanish.

Do you think it’s fair to complain with all what we have? We cease to see that all that is there is more than not...

Our gratefulness should be enough to warm our hearts, our care should be enough to heat our surroundings, our faith should be enough to make us survive strongly.

Be kind, it will feed you. Be caring, it will ease your pain. Be generous, it will fill your heart. Be grateful, it will make you healthy. Be Godly, it will grant you immortality.