Getting health recovery or restored to normality

Your thread reminds me of a story about Robert Davila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-5XzQAmGw

They visited Robert Davila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWGXw9lpll4

Greetings and peace be with you IslamLife00;

Thanks for posting the video of Robert Davila, I am pleased he was able to find peace in his paralysed state; Allah truly works in profound ways that we will never understand. The story had so many similarities to my mother.

My mum went into a coma and was rushed to hospital, her breathing was a horrible gurgling sound. The doctors said she had days to live and there was nothing they could do for her. We called a priest, although none of us had a faith at the time, we just thought it was what you should do as mum was bought up a Catholic. As the priest prayed my mums gasping for air seemed to change, she seemed to relax and started to breathe more normally. About ten minutes after the priest walked out the door, mum came round and started to speak, she had no recollection of anything that happened in hospital, or that the priest had said prayers over her. We thought it might have just been a temporary reprieve, but she lived another eleven years.

Having our mum back was a mixed blessing, because she had suffered with multiple sclerosis for about twenty years prior to the coma, she was paralysed from the neck down as she gradually lost the use of both her arms and legs. Before the coma, there were times she said she wanted to die. But after the coma my mum regarded her healing as a blessing, despite her paralysed body, and she said she was not ready to die at the time of the coma; she had a profound sense of peace that was beyond my understanding.

I really could not understand how she seemed to just accept being paralysed from the neck down, she rarely complained and often seemed more worried and concerned about our problems than her own. She had a faith in God and she sometimes used to say that she is ready to meet Jesus now. People might have said that it would have been kinder for her to have passed away in hospital. But somehow through my mum’s faith in God, I went from being agnostic to finding a greater faith myself.

I can only say that I will never meet a stronger person than my mum, and she was so kind and caring too. Faith is only faith when it is tested; sometimes it seems that God tests us in extreme ways. We all die; faith and trust in God helps us to look forwards to a greater good life after death.

In the spirit of searching for a greatest meaning of 'One God'

Eric

Greetings and peace be with you Bmiah;

I wasn't going to share it originally, but it was so similar to the video posted by IslamLife00. Sadly you could not hear the video, but it tells the story of Robert Davila, he was paralysed from the neck down, he was a Christian, but he had a revelation whereby he found his peace and turned to Islam. If you do a google search for Robert Davila, there are plenty of links, maybe one will work for you. I think you will be inspired by his story; he is worth looking up.

Blessings
Eric

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Greetings and peace be with you IslamLife00;

Thanks for posting the video of Robert Davila, I am pleased he was able to find peace in his paralysed state; Allah truly works in profound ways that we will never understand. The story had so many similarities to my mother.

My mum went into a coma and was rushed to hospital, her breathing was a horrible gurgling sound. The doctors said she had days to live and there was nothing they could do for her. We called a priest, although none of us had a faith at the time, we just thought it was what you should do as mum was bought up a Catholic. As the priest prayed my mums gasping for air seemed to change, she seemed to relax and started to breathe more normally. About ten minutes after the priest walked out the door, mum came round and started to speak, she had no recollection of anything that happened in hospital, or that the priest had said prayers over her. We thought it might have just been a temporary reprieve, but she lived another eleven years.

Having our mum back was a mixed blessing, because she had suffered with multiple sclerosis for about twenty years prior to the coma, she was paralysed from the neck down as she gradually lost the use of both her arms and legs. Before the coma, there were times she said she wanted to die. But after the coma my mum regarded her healing as a blessing, despite her paralysed body, and she said she was not ready to die at the time of the coma; she had a profound sense of peace that was beyond my understanding.

I really could not understand how she seemed to just accept being paralysed from the neck down, she rarely complained and often seemed more worried and concerned about our problems than her own. She had a faith in God and she sometimes used to say that she is ready to meet Jesus now. People might have said that it would have been kinder for her to have passed away in hospital. But somehow through my mum’s faith in God, I went from being agnostic to finding a greater faith myself.

I can only say that I will never meet a stronger person than my mum, and she was so kind and caring too. Faith is only faith when it is tested; sometimes it seems that God tests us in extreme ways. We all die; faith and trust in God helps us to look forwards to a greater good life after death.

In the spirit of searching for a greatest meaning of 'One God'

Eric

JazakAllah for sharing the story. Your mother was a very strong woman.

and how true it is what you said 'faith is only faith when tested'. Yes even in the Qur'an, Allah has said that life in this dunya is a test, and among the tests is the test of health (Al-An'am and Al-A'raf)