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THANK GOD ! ! !

✍️Written in English by an anonymous, native Arabic-speaking, contributor✍️

✍️Edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

An incident happened recently this month to a foreign student of a university in the Arabic speaking world, about which no identifying information will be given in order to protect the privacy of those concerned. The student fell to the ground on a street where he saw a stray cat next to him. He was okay, but, when he got home, he looked in the mirror and found a small scratch on his neck. He kept thinking of the reason and concluded the stray cat might have scratched him.

The university protocol in this case is to advise the student to have a rabies vaccine injection. His insurance company referred him to a private hospital, but the doctor told him he could only get the vaccine in a public hospital.

He kept pushing his university academic advisor to make the decision for him because he said he was paranoid. It was a first time for the advisor to deal with someone who was paranoid like this, but the situation was handled by telling him to go to a public hospital and let the doctor there advise him.

The advisor had classes, so could not go along. But, he could speak Arabic and the doctors English. When he returned, the advisor checked on him and saw his face wasn’t okay. They went to the advisor's office. On arrival, he immediately broke out into tears.

The advisor was surprised, but kept calm. It turned out he had mixed feelings, was overwhelmed with emotions, yet also relieved. He was afraid of the vaccine and the public hospital, but said that the people were good and the hospital wasn’t bad.

But, something perplexed him. When he fell, a man, who came to help, said the Arabic for “Thank God!” The student didn’t understand why the man thanked God. The advisor said it was because it wasn't worse, something about which people always thank God.

Even as the advisor was speaking, a colleague came by. He had been hit by a car the week before while crossing the street. He was limping, with bruises all over his body and a dislocated shoulder in an arm sling.

When the advisor, in front of the student, welcomed the man, saying "I hope you're feeling better", the man smiled and said: “Thank God. It’s all because of God’s blessings.” and left. The student then asked "What blessings?" After all, the man was nearly totaled. The advisor, then and there, took the student to the colleague in question and made the student ask him directly. The colleague's reply was that it was destined, something he could not control, and it could have been worse. And, in fact, he had no wounds or fractures and could still walk. The student responded with "Thank God!" and immediately looked better. He then had coffee and continued his day as normal.

The advisor was happy the student was back to normal and was also was happy about the coincidence of the injured colleague having served the situation so well without the need for planning. But, also, there was a feeling of having learned something from the colleague’s gratefulness to God.

The day ended on a good note for all concerned, but, more importantly, it left behind an important lesson in the psychological resilience of the people inhabiting the Arabic-speaking Muslim nations of the Middle East and North Africa. It also goes far toward explaining why the people of Gaza and the West Bank are able to suffer so much and still maintain the social cohesiveness of their societies. It is to be found in the power of the two-word phrase, "Thank God!"

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