Medical Check-Up

Medical Check-Up
– and a second chance to live

To think that in January I innocently announced to the audience of my talk that I’d be doing my medical check-up in February.

No way could I have expected that the check-up would reveal blockages in my heart, since I thought I was fit.

Allah eased the path to the following month of March when the triple bypass surgery was completed successfully. Alhamdulillah.

Today I am in the fifth week post-surgery. Recovery has been scary, painful, and uncomfortable, to say the least. Alhamdulillah.

The happy moments are from the support, du’a (prayers), cheer and unconditional love from Marsila Zainuddin my wife, my children, family, friends and clients. Thank you, all. Alhamdulillah.

Through it all, I tried to muster all the patience I can get. Week by week there has been progress. Alhamdulillah.

“Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear.” — The Holy Quran, 2:286

The weakness that my body is slowly pulling itself from, starkly reminds me that I am nothing, He is everything.

All the many things I simply could not do especially in the first two weeks post-surgery, the things I had taken for granted like bathing, profoundly reminds me of my Creator, the Supreme Designer having designed and created a perfect working of me, the human being.

“So, surely with hardship comes ease. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.” — The Holy Quran, 94:5-6

I look forward to some month in the future that I can enter cycling events again.

What is for sure, Allah has given me a second chance to live, to serve Him.

Alhamdulillah.