Motherhood: A New Sense of Humility
Women give birth everyday, but the experience is enough to completely alter one’s perspective of life. Pregnancy and delivery might make some women feel a sense of power, of creating life, of being the medium for someone’s arrival into this world.But for me, it did the complete opposite.I am extremely humbled. Delivery in all actuality is a near-death experience, and for me, ready to go under the knife as I was out cold from full anesthesia, and came back due to His will, I felt the immense, harrowing, yet assuring realization that my life is not in my hands.It was all Him. My Rabb was the One guiding my body, the doctor’s hands, to bring out the baby alive and breathing..
Last night, at the Take on Hate rally event at the University of Michigan Dearborn campus, a host of politicians, including US congress people, Debbie Dingell, Andy Levin and Rashida Tlaib; Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist II; Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy and community leaders were joined by activists and members of the community to address the issue of Hate. Imam Mustapha Elturk, was among the invited clergy to offer a prayer. The event focused on all forms of hate against all people, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Blacks, Latinos, among other minorities. The rally called on ending the hateful rhetoric...
