As I was finding out more and more about Maryam's condition while I was pregnant with her, the more stressed and worrisome I became. A month before I gave birth to her, I sought help from a therapist. We spoke about how she could counsel me after Maryam's birth and help me emotionally along the way. We also spoke of strategies to heal my current worries and anxieties. Little did I know that Maryam alone would end up ridding me of these anxieties. The reason I asked for help became my actual treatment. Maryam has built me up emotionally in ways above my own capacity and has healed personal anxieties, many of which I thought would never escape me. Today, Maryam is my counselor and therapist in every meaning of the words.
In the early stages of life I have faced different stressful events. Each time I thought THAT was the worse that could happen. And time passes and so does the problem. It becomes a memory consumed by a new challenge. That challenge too apears to be the peak of my problems. And again I am proven wrong. Now at an age of nearly forty, I relies that there is no such thing as the worst problem. it's the way we preceive these problems that makes them feel so. And the verse that says "On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. " more and more closer to my heart.
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