‘When someone starts to cry in front of us and says that his whole family is martyred or that he can't communicate with them because there are no connections, how will it be? Yes, he is living his day, but actually, he is not living. He is disconnected.’ ‘These are the situations we struggle with at the moment.’

I am a doctor living in the West Bank and this war in Gaza has affected me psychologically, physically and economically.
In the early days we were able to keep in touch with the doctors in Gaza. It was unimaginable what was happening to them and to the people in Gaza.
Then we thought ‘this could also happen to us’ and we felt tense and fearful but we mustn’t show these feelings to our patients.
Those doctors in Gaza, they are trying to continue their work despite the war. They are a model to us all.
I felt so anxious and suffered palpitations with all the news from Gaza I had to take tablets to help me cope with my racing heart and the pressure in my head and I was so depressed.
When they bombed the first hospital in Gaza at least 471 people died and 342 were injured. That affected me more than anything at the time.
The Israel Defense Forces are often around in the West Bank and then we don’t feel safe to go out or to go to work. There are also roadblocks or checkpoints that can delay us getting into work by several hours.
There is very little teaching in the clinics because the students can’t get to the clinics because they do not feel safe to travel or to pass through the checkpoints.
When we feel safe to travel to work our patients also feel safe to travel, so then they all come together, and we may see 150 patients in a day, where we used to see 70-80. That is a big workload.
Many medicines now are not available, so we have to try and find alternatives. Sometimes we cannot access any medicines for some conditions, so then we cannot treat the patients. This particularly effects patients with long term problems like blood pressure and diabetes, and even patients with kidney transplants.
Sometimes we have the medicines, but the patient cannot afford them. We try to help these patients where we can.
The economy is terrible since the war. Many workers are unemployed, the economy is paralyzed, there are no salaries for some employees. The health situation is equally terrible, as I have mentioned.
Then there are many rumors, particularly for those people who live close to the settlements, rumors that their lands will be taken. that they will have to leave the West Bank and go to Jordan This has caused a lot of anxiety and fear for many people.
The war seems to have particularly affected women with children very badly.
Then there are those people with family in Gaza who have been martyred or others whom they have not been able to contact. They have no way of knowing whether they are alive or dead. And they are not allowed to go to Gaza. These people especially, we struggle to be able to help. How can anyone support people with so much emotional trauma? When someone starts to cry in front of us and says that his whole family is martyred or that he can't communicate with them because there are no connections, how will it be? Yes, he is living his day, but actually, he is not living. He is disconnected.
These are the situations we struggle with at the moment. They are disconnected, they are numb. Their pain is too great. We need teaching specific to wars to be able to help them.
Other people like the women with children they come to the clinics. Many of them have physical symptoms that has no explanation and eventually we discover that it is hidden mental illness i.e. somatisation. We offer them CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), they talk, and they feel some relief, and many come back. But there are so many people suffering and because of the obstacles preventing us sometimes from getting to work there is also less time to be able to spend with people even though they really do need it.
I worry about women who have to go to work and have to leave their children at home. Then their children worry all day about whether their parents are going to be safe or not. So they too are affected by the war.
The children can go to school on some days and then on other days they have online classes but obviously their education will be suffering. I feel all this disruption may affect some children’s desire to study and to learn.
There are fewer opportunities for recreational activities at the moment but instead there is more opportunity to feel spiritual.
Those times when the children feel anxious or fearful because of the war can also become an opportunity for them to feel closer to God.

“The whole point about PD was to try and save patients from the dangers of the Occupation, we have not. Without removing toxins from the blood, our patients are dying.’’

The first peritoneal dialysis (PD) program on the West Bank was launched in 2016. One of the reasons was to enable us to manage patients with kidney failure when violence erupts here because travel can then become dangerous.

With hemodialysis, patients have to travel to a unit at their regional hospital in the West Bank three times a week. There they are hooked up to a machine to remove the poisons from their blood since their kidneys are no longer functioning.

PD offers patients more flexibility since it is managed by the patients themselves, in their own homes. It has been used successfully in other areas experiencing conflicts and disasters. A tube the size of a drinking straw (catheter) is surgically inserted into the belly. Once healed, the patient sends a cleansing solution through the catheter in the belly (peritoneal cavity) every day. The solution remains in the belly for several hours to absorb waste and toxins from the blood vessels, and then it is drained back out and discarded. The exchange is done by gravity while sleeping or working. Hospital visits are only needed once a month to check blood levels and to get supplies.

The program has been a success; gone from zero to nearly 200 patients in five years and proved helpful during the COVID pandemic. Our study showed that infection rates were less among PD patients compared to their hemodialysis counterparts.

I spoke with staff at the hospital the other day.

“After October 7th , we were afraid we would run out of exchange solution to give patients,” she said. “We managed that challenge, but there have been other problems due to the difficulty of travel. Patients in the southern West Bank, Hebron and Bethlehem, have stopped traveling here for their monthly checks. They do not feel safe.”

The usual 2–3-hour drive to the center has become much longer. There are more checkpoints to go through and the Israeli army often stops and inspects cars.

She continued, “One patient from the south developed a temperature and belly pain peritonitis [infection in his belly]. He couldn't reach the hospital, and the primary care facility in his town didn’t know how to handle him. He died.

“Another patient from Hebron was eagerly waiting to receive his solutions, and after a long time we arranged to send them to him by taxi. However, a group of soldiers stopped the car and took the solutions.”

I was sad to learn, that not only are hemodialysis patients suffering, but our PD patients are too. The whole point about PD was to try and save patients from the dangers of the Occupation, we have not. Without removing toxins from the blood, patients are dying.Description text goes here

After the 7th of October We all recognized that there would be a reaction, but honestly, the reaction we witnessed was beyond what I expected. I object to using the word "war." It’s genocide, targeting Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Today, it means that the target includes Palestinian culture, schools, universities, Palestinian homes, Palestinian trees, and Palestinian land. I object to using the word "war" because in war, forces should be respected and equal. We didn't see that. It was an exaggerated reaction.

After the 7th of October, there are many people feeling depressed, anxious, and stressed. Feelings directly related to the incursions. There are also those who have trouble sleeping and eating. They have a feeling of emptiness, panic, intense fear and a sense of no safety for the future. This is something that we have all noticed, and we all share this feeling.

I believe that the feeling of depression in many Palestinians is natural, considering what is happening in terms of genocide in Gaza and in many areas of the West Bank at this present time.

The unnatural thing would be to not feel depressed.

However, this has not translated into an increase in attendances to mental health services, largely because of the stigma and the costs for mental health services.

Today, all Palestinians suffer from ongoing collective trauma.

If the government is to support the Palestinian population manage their on-going collective trauma they must change the services they run.

One of the main issues in Palestinian adults and children is what is call ‘collective helplessness’ where people say "I am eating and drinking. I want to offer something, I want to do something, but I am not able to do anything for these people in Gaza who are my family, my brothers, and my sisters. I don't know where to start.” This feeling is very harsh and very difficult to deal with. This feeling of helplessness is being transferred to therapists. It is helpful for us all to openly talk about this helplessness to family, friends, and colleagues.

I expect that the current situation has affected people in all aspects: socially, politically, and economically. The hardest part is the lack of a deadline for when this war will end, so I think it will cast its shadow on many people, especially the workers who used to work in Israel. They will not be able to pay for things.

Many people have been affected economically, but many will also not reveal their poverty. We are accustomed to shocks in Palestine, and we can usually manage them but in the current situation, there will be a lot of mental health issues related to poverty. Poverty also affects people’s ability to seek mental health services or to get any medications. Many medications are not available at this time in the pharmacies.

Education too has been effected; students of all ages feel unsafe to travel: from incursions, army checkpoints, road closures and random shootings. All of this effects the psychological state of the students and teachers and is not a good situation in which to study or learn.

Children go to school when they can but when it is not safe to travel, they have to have online schooling at home. The burden of this often lands on the mother, who has to supervise and support the children with their online schooling. It is not ideal. Mothers are anxious for the safety of their children and many praying that the occupation will end and this conflict will cease. Even younger children are aware of what is happening. Their anxieties may come out in their arguments with each other, which may escalate during periods of psychological tension and difficult situations. They may bury themselves in electronic games or other distractions.

I think perhaps the awareness of how lucky many of the children in the West Bank feel in comparison to the children in Gaza may have increased since the conflict. When you see someone else's disaster, your own disaster seems lighter.

We all hope that this war and destruction will be resolved, and we can move on.

Life was not all rosy before October 7th . It was not a life of justice or equality, but the challenges have become bigger for everyone in the West Bank. Today we are thinking about what the shape of tomorrow could be and what it will look like after six months.Description text goes here

"O Pharaoh who made you a tyrant?" He replied, "I couldn't find anyone to stop me."

The harshness of the scenes and images of what we see in Gaza has overwhelmed all of us in the West Bank. This, in spite of our faith and the understanding that this present invasion is a test from the Almighty, and that recurrent attacks are our destiny as Palestinians.
As doctors the harshness of the scenes and images remain vivid in our consciousness. These sights send shivers down your spine. We doctors are emotionally affected. So honestly, this war has had a significant impact on our life in general.
Another thing, the sanctuary of hospitals and medical teams was violated by Israel. Hospitals, doctors, and medical teams are supposed to be protected by all the laws of the world. We are supposed to have international immunity. But unfortunately, members of medical teams have been attacked, arrested, tortured, and murdered in Gaza. It started in Gaza, but hospitals in the West Bank, are now targeted.

Now, we mentally prepare ourselves for being exposed to similar behaviours by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Every time we reach checkpoints, whether young or old, physicians or nursing staff we are hassled and searched. These are the consequences of the war on all of us, in the West Bank

I want to emphasise to you that the psychological aspects are the biggest thing. It is in part by watching the events unfold in Gaza; the sense of anticipation and waiting. In the past, I, as a doctor, always thought that I was protected under international law. But now in Palestine I have become vulnerable. The white coat no longer protects you or gives you international immunity, so you are at risk of being attacked at any moment.
I feel the Red Cross and all the international institutions have openly proven their failure and hypocrisy.
They demand human rights, but their humanity fell on the first day of the war in Gaza, when they failed to stop it and their humanity fell on the day of the siege of the first hospital in Gaza, the al-Ahli Arab Hospital and with all the hospitals that have since come under siege, in both Gaza and the West Bank.

And then we return to the quote:
"O Pharaoh who made you a tyrant?"
He replied -
"I couldn't find anyone to stop me."

This Occupation by Israel – they take the first step and watch the world for a reaction. If they see only condemnation and denunciations and no one stops them, then they do more violations. We have seen it happen already, where they entered the hospital and mistreated the workers who were going about their shifts. Doctors here were attacked and several of them were arrested. We no longer have security inside hospitals.
We have become afraid that at any moment, special forces could enter the hospitals.

Every day Israeli soldiers cross our borders, into Palestine; people are exhausted.

We know that when the Occupying force enter, it does so with the intention of destruction and killing, no longer for the purpose of arrest. It destroys and kills or injures people as much as possible and they consider it an accomplishment.

I will tell you about a situation that happened. A female healthcare worker was seriously intimidated as she arrived for her shift in a hospital in the West Bank. They didn't directly attack her, but by intimidating her and their way of rushing towards her, it terrified her. We had to try and calm her down.
She was very scared. She asked herself, ‘Why?’ ‘Why does this happen to me when I come to serve. I won't do anything that harms them? There is nothing in the hospital that I will do that will harm them or their entity.’

We are just people providing medical service to the patients in the hospital, regardless of whether they are wounded on confrontations or not. Around 80 or 90 percent of the patients in the hospital are not wounded in confrontations. Before this invasion in Gaza, 100 percent of them were just regular patients. They have heart disease or cancer, and so on. Many diseases, from newborns to 90 or 100 years old. So, what is it that I am doing that will harm the Occupiers? The situation is really bad.

They besiege the hospital to prevent the injured from reaching it or to arrest the injured before they can arrive and take them away, so they don’t receive hospital treatment.
There is nothing but tension. Most of the time, we are just tense. When there is a siege on at the hospital, or in refugee camps or in towns, there are the injured that we can't reach. We, as medical teams, try to reach them but even ambulances can’t go in and out. Sometimes we try to go ourselves to the injured, but we very often can't do that either.

When the siege is over all the sick and injured people arrive at once and we have to try and deal with them as best as we can.
If the army does move away from the hospital or their presence disappears from in front of the hospital square, they usually only move a few meters away, they do not completely leave the area.

There is a man whose son was very sick. His son was 10 years old. It took an hour for the ambulance to reach the hospital because of the checkpoints. At the hospital, it took another 15 minutes for him to walk to the hospital because the ambulance was not allowed to enter. Shortly after finally arriving at the hospital, the son died. This is a child! Imagine - a child! Who would prevent a child from getting to the hospital?

An elderly woman with symptoms of a stroke was told by the hospital to stay at home during a siege. Ambulances couldn’t travel to her and it was thought safer for her to stay at home with a stroke than risk receiving a bullet, for her or whoever brings her, whilst trying to reach the hospital. May God be with her. She had to stay home until the next day when the army withdrew. Strokes only have a narrow window to get the treatment to prevent permanent damage and worse complications.

We cannot teach or do research, that requires communication across hospitals and financial stability. We do not have that now.

The people of the West Bank have been under financial constraints since 2018.
Trump, the former US president, started deducting a portion of the money that the authority receives from Israel, via the USA claiming that it goes to support terrorism. Of course, by ‘terrorists’ they often mean the Palestinian prisoners, who are imprisoned without trial or for minor offences. Then, from 2018 until now in 2024, they deduct more each year. So, this has been a war on the West Bank for a long time. The salary has not been stable for a while.
We only now receive about 80-85% of our salary.

We try to prescribe the cheapest and most available medications. I mean, the pressure on government hospitals and the public sector has increased due to the deteriorating economic situation. Moreover, we have started to prioritize national products over foreign ones.

Honestly, let me emphasize again that the bad financial situation and now the war has increased the pressure on government hospitals in Palestine. No one goes to private clinics anymore. The patients have been affected financially. I'm telling you, the economic situation, has affected everyone, not just the employees. There are constant incursions and sieges when no-one can get out and no-one can spend any money so the traders suffer.

The demand for people with psychological symptoms hasn’t changed since the war. We have suffered under the Occupation since 1948. We survive, we are still surviving.
Nothing has changed for us, honestly. Every time there is a new war, does it mean that the people themselves are collapsing? No! The people's psyche is collapsed at the sight of children suffering, nothing else, the sight of the destruction in Gaza, nothing else. War is the norm for us.

Israel is creating a generation of Palestinians that resents them even more because of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
When you see the immense death toll and destruction in Gaza, the issue of checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank becomes minor.

Prior to October 7th and this present war, there were violations and attacks in Palestine; but now, with this war, the level of violations has increased. Schools are being violated. And the violence from the settlers has escalated.

Before the 7th, we used to go out despite the danger, but we knew that there was some rationality with respect to attacks on women and children and doctors. But now there seems no rationality. All the boundaries have been violated and all red lines have been crossed.

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‘It's not safe at all here. It's not for doctors, for nurses or for journalists. It's not safe for anybody.
You could face your end at any moment.’
It does not feel safe here in the city. We dare not go out in the evenings for fear of encountering the Israeli Army (IDF) or some special forces.
I cannot always get to work or sometimes I get to work but then cannot get home
We have to check social media on our phones before we attempt to travel to or from the
hospital, in case there has been an incursion and the IDF forces are around. If they are around, it is not safe to leave the house. Sometimes we know they are around because we are awoken in the night. [Awoken by the sound of guns.]

There is a lot of army activity in the West Bank at the moment: in Jeniin, Tulkarem, Nablus. It is chaotic times; our sleep is disturbed, our lives are messy. We have to keep following the news from Gaza and the West Bank. When I first started working at the hospital I used to pop in when I wasn’t on call because I
was so keen to learn. But now I dare not do that. If the army arrives in Jenin, I cannot return home. I have to stay at the hospital sometimes overnight until they leave. Sometimes they block the entrance to the hospital and search everyone coming in or out. Even the doctors
who come in the ambulances.
They make them step out and strip off their clothes and sit on the street. They interrogate
them. They may eventually let them through.
So if the army is around I don’t leave. If I don’t get to the hospital, it will have minimal
impact because the injured or the sick will not be allowed through to the hospital either.
We interns are supposed to accompany a patient when they are transferred to a specialist
hospital like Nablus. But we are scared because if the army set up a roadblock along the way
we get caught up in the roadblock or the shooting, so we refuse to go. We make the
Residents go instead because they are more senior but they don’t want to go either. And
there are less of them and their experience is needed in the hospital. We all prefer to just
stay and work in the hospital until it is safe to go home.
When there is an incursion, the patients stay away because they are scared. Then the
following day they all turn up because they think the army will have gone and then it is so
busy and we have to work very late.
After a few days the numbers of patients start dropping again because they fear another
incursion is likely and so it goes on.
Everyone is scared even to come to hospital.
Sometimes the army has stayed for several days in a row so the patients can’t come.
Even the injured can’t come. The IDF don’t let injured people get medical help, so they have
to wait until the army has left and by then most of the injured have died.
Imagine the impact on the patients. They don’t like to come to the hospital unless they are
really ill and if the army is around, they can’t come. Likewise, they are scared to get their
medicines so they try to spread their tablets out so they do not take them properly. Think of
the people who are on dialysis or chemotherapy or other lifesaving therapies. They suffer.

Women in labour cannot get the care they need. Nowadays people don’t come to hospital
unless they really, really have to and they can no longer hold themselves together.

One day the hospital car park was full so I parked my car on the street outside. We heard
some shooting happening outside the hospital. We were told there were special forces
200m away. And then some gunmen arrived, and a clash erupted. I wanted to go and bring
my car inside (it already has a broken window from a previous time when a bullet had hit it).
Eventually I noticed some people were leaving and so I went out to bring the car in. I had left my
stuff in the hospital because I wanted to come back. But the army had returned by the time I
reached my car, so I wasn't able to go back. There was chaos everywhere, and so I had to leave. My
sisters at the time were at the university, and I told them to stay there until I come and get them and
I did. There is no transportation in such times, and even if there was, where will they take you?
I have 3 siblings my sister and younger brother are studying engineering and I have a sister
who is studying dentistry. Some lessons are online on zoom and some are in person.
Things can change on a day-to-day basis. It's perfectly normal to wake up in the morning thinking
you're going [to the university] today, but then something happens and it gets switched
automatically to online
My cousin who is studying dentistry has to see patients to complete certain tasks for the course.
But everyone is trying to stay at home. Everyone is trying not to go out, so they don’t show up
Sometimes we face power cuts and we lose internet connection so lessons don’t happen but when
that happens it happens to everybody so it ceases to be a problem. It doesn’t happen frequently.
I was once here at the ER. I was right here in this room and was about to go from there, when a guy
came from the outside without his hand. I don't know what had happened to him. And he came
inside. Maybe it was a bomb or as a result of a gunshot, I don't know. He came in. I saw a doctor
before me who suddenly fainted. I went there to see what was going on, and then I fainted. You
know it just happened involuntarily the moment I saw him. You know what I mean? So there are these kind of things, I don’t keep thinking about it after I go home, that was a normal thing to happen.
I mean in this current situation; these things are happening every day. And if you don't see it in front
of you, you'll see it on your cell phone. You'll see it in Gaza.

“The Prophet Muhammad; may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If the Final Hour comes while you have the shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour
comes, you should plant it."’

The war has had an adverse effect on all elements of life.
I was a teaching assistant at the university but when the war started, I volunteered to work at the
nongovernment organization Hospital in Gaza - one day as a general physician and 2 days in the
burns and plastic surgery unit. There are no holidays. This has increased stress, responsibility, and
exhaustion.
The overall number of emergency cases per day is not less than 700. The vast majority of cases have
to be admitted.
In the plastic surgery and burns department over 300 patients are handled by multiple medical
teams on a daily basis. Each team manages an average of 30 cases every day. Rounds include
debridement and dressings.
Teaching is, of course, at a standstill. Most students are displaced, with no books or iPads. The environment of dislocation and war is not conducive to learning.
As for my students; some of them have been martyred. God, please have mercy on them. Dr. Nada,
one of my students, was martyred, and Dr. Marah lost her entire family. Dr. Husam lost both his mother and father, as did many others. Those who remain are either displaced or homeless. Nobody thinks about his or her studies. I have one student volunteering with me in the hospital.
We can't move easily, and it's quite risky; we could be killed.
We have adjusted to the situation, attempting to pray and eat during prayer times. No more than 15
minutes. I don't take any days off, and I usually stay in the hospital to cover the emergency
department with my colleagues because we continue to have a high volume of cases every day.
It is not safe to go back home. In addition to that, our relatives have been displaced to our home in
Gaza and it is very overcrowded there. I will be an added burden to them. So it is better to stay at
the hospital.
Life is still much easier here than it is for Khan Yunis. It's quite dangerous there. There was a lot of air and ground bombardment.
I am single, but for married doctors with families It is quite difficult. The situation is dire here. Every
doctor has his or her unique set of issues. If he is displaced, his family will very certainly be accompanying him at the hospital. As they are staying with him, he does not need to leave the hospital to care for them. But I'm not sure how s/he feeds them.
We assist our colleagues, who have families, to return home; some of them work for 24 hours and
then return home the next 24 hours, and so on. However, bringing food and family necessities takes
much longer than 24 hours. For example, it takes more than 24 hours to bring bread to them.
Assume they have flour in their home (because there are no working bakeries), then he must go
fetch some shrubs to make a fire to bake bread. Making bread on a fire requires more time and
effort than using an electric or gas oven. As a result, instead of half an hour, it will take more than
three hours to prepare bread and so on.
If someone wants to go shopping, the market is so crowded that it takes half an hour to depart.
Prices are very high, and the market is very basic. Most of the things that people need to live are not
available, only canned goods and other similar things.
The situation is quite awful. A hospital overflowing with patients.
It is considered a shelter. It's really full of displaced folks. Literally, there is no area without humans.
It is really stuffed here. And we discovered several infectious diseases: chicken pox, scabies, upper respiratory infections, acute bronchitis, and pneumonia, gastroenteritis, food poisoning, meningitis and otitis media. Add to that anemia and malnutrition. I once had a patient who wasn't eating well
because she couldn't access food and was depressed. She was dizzy and had a blood count of 6.5!
[Normal is 11 or 12.]
We also have a hepatitis outbreak. There is no water, and people are drinking filthy water.
We really can’t control the situation here, the ER is full of patients and displaced people, we can’t
work here. The hospital originally had 300 beds, but presently there are 900 patients admitted. We
now have four new departments: fields 1, 2, 3, and 4.
They converted outpatient clinics, radiology corridors, and day care into departments.
Admission guidelines have changed at our hospital. We currently address illnesses like DVT [blood clot in the leg] and sepsis [blood infection] as outpatients. We don't have any places. We now
prioritize who receives ventilators in the ICU and allow hopeless people to die in peace since we do
not have enough beds.
We no longer perform CPR for patients with fixed dilated pupils.
In addition, there is a lack of medication, both at the hospital and in our pharmacies. As a result, a
patient with a lung infection cannot take any medication and continues to visit the ER.
There are three missions sending doctors from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
They collaborate with the Red Cross and which facilitates their entry.
And we have a Pakistani doctor who arrived on his own, I'm not sure how.
One of the plastic surgeons I work with completed his specialization in Qatar and then subspecialized
in plastics in the United Kingdom before returning to Gaza just five months before the start of the
war. He managed to successfully protect an exposed femur and quadriceps muscle loss with a skin
graft and on the patient’s other leg he skin grafted an above knee amputation stump.
We believe that doctors in the West Bank are depressed because their family (Gaza people) are
being bombed and dying and they are powerless to help. However, nothing other than what God has
planned for us will actually hurt us.
Whether you thought about the future or not, whether we worked or not, we will face our faith.
Faith, faith, faith. So we are determined to do the right thing until the very end of our life.
The Prophet Muhammad; may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If the Final Hour comes
while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes,
you should plant it." I mentioned that in the beginning. The saying is highly encouraging, and there is
an excellent explanation of it in the book "Eqtibasat Al Rasul." You should read it whenever you have
the opportunity. The book is meant to show how the saying applies to real life, In a creative literary
way.

What's going on doesn't mean we forget about the future; it's what makes us stronger mentally and
lets us keep going no matter how much faith we have. We will plant the shoot until the very end of
our lives. Trials improve grades and deter bad conduct. We see this gloom, concern, and sadness as a
purification for us and a promotion for our ranks. As our great prophet said, "Never a believer is
stricken with a discomfort, an illness, an anxiety, a grief or mental worry or even the pricking of a
thorn but Allah will expiate his sins on account of his patience". If it were not for the Qur’an and the
fragrant biography of the Prophet, we would not have survived. Thanks god.