A New Beginning - Hajja Najah Bazzy

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Recorded at the first Muslim Youth Connection Dinner on July 12, 2015 at Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn, MI

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[0:00]Salam alaikum everyone when I'm at Allahabad a katsu I wish to

[0:07]congratulate the Muslim youth connection on their new beginning I wish to

[0:12]congratulate them on this wonderful wonderful event and for each and every

[0:16]one of you who's had your hand in this entire month working

[0:20]so hard God sure will reward you greatly so you know you

[0:24]hear me speak a lot so it's not like you can always

[0:28]come up with something fresh but I would like to start by

[0:31]telling you a story and of course our imam is going to

[0:37]follow so he'll steal the show the story is very important and

[0:41]I ask that you really listen carefully because in the story are

[0:48]some very very deep reflections it's the story of a man named

[0:52]Sam Sam was born a very beautiful baby like any other set

[1:00]of parents his parents were so happy to have such a gorgeous

[1:04]baby I've seen Sam's baby pictures his face was like a moon

[1:12]just shining ever ever so beautiful very very special looking baby like

[1:18]any other parent you raise your child and you expect all those

[1:24]exciting developmental moments except for this set of parents this baby wouldn't

[1:30]crawl and so the parents kept waiting and hoping that the baby

[1:36]would crawl thinking that it was just maybe a little too fat

[1:42]but the baby turned eight months old and still never crawled he

[1:47]began to scooped so the mother decided to take the baby of

[1:52]course to the pediatrician many times and the pediatrician said well it's

[1:59]just a slow baby but he will walk have faith he's fine

[2:02]one year goes by 13 14 15 months go by and the

[2:11]baby is still scooting not even crawling so finally mom takes the

[2:18]baby to a specialist called a neurologist and the neurologist says stop

[2:24]going everywhere around asking what can be done about your baby your

[2:29]baby will never walk well of course you can imagine what that

[2:33]feels like to a mother your baby will never walk however your

[2:41]baby may live as long as you care for your baby in

[2:49]this way keep your house clean and don't give your baby any

[2:53]special attention treat this child like you would any of your other

[2:56]children and this baby may live longer than you and so this

[3:03]very very brave mother heartbroken very brave father heartbroken takes their baby

[3:12]Sam home and begin the journey of raising this child the child

[3:17]happens to be very brilliant very very smart but can't do much

[3:23]for himself at all he has some function but not enough to

[3:27]live a normal daily life and of course school is starting so

[3:33]a wheelchair appears from what's called the muscular dystrophy association which is

[3:39]what he was diagnosed with and after that wheelchair he outgrew another

[3:46]wheelchair appeared and braces and all sorts of things and their house

[3:50]was full of something called a lift to take him from the

[3:53]bathroom to the bed and as he continued to grow into his

[4:00]teenage years like any other teenager he wanted to have a life

[4:03]too but wasn't given the opportunity to have the same kind of

[4:06]life many of you teenagers have in this room today now this

[4:13]gentleman is 60 plus years old he's the longest living person with

[4:19]muscular dystrophy of his kind in our country he's never walked a

[4:24]day in his life he's never moved a day in his life

[4:32]he's never been able to really feed himself the way you and

[4:35]I feed ourselves he's never been able to reach across the table

[4:39]and choose his food he has to depend on people to wake

[4:47]him in the morning to wipe his mouth to sit him up

[4:50]to get him his coffee to make sure he doesn't choke to

[4:57]move his hand just a bit this way that way his leg

[5:04]this way that way to lift him to put him on the

[5:06]toilet to wipe him to clean him to brush his teeth to

[5:13]shave his face to shampoo his hair to shower him he has

[5:19]to be dependent on all kinds of different people to get through

[5:24]not a day to get through minutes and through all of this

[5:29]this incredible human being managed to graduate with two college degrees and

[5:35]most recently maybe 6 or 7 months ago he had just a

[5:42]little bit of function left in this finger and I know many

[5:47]of you know who I'm talking about and he could do this

[5:51]that's it and this was enough to keep him in touch with

[6:01]the world through his computer he could communicate with a mouse that

[6:04]was very sensitive and he could type with that mouse so that

[6:10]he could send his emails he could communicate with the world and

[6:13]he can do the one sport that he could do not moving

[6:16]which was golf online and as you would have it at 60

[6:28]years old arthritis sets in and he loses this just this little

[6:32]bit of human function is gone his family was heartbroken but because

[6:40]of that failure something else popped up and it was a new

[6:49]contraption that came about a technology that allows your eyes to move

[6:55]a mouse so it was quite expensive but he advocated for himself

[7:01]and he managed to have the company send him one as an

[7:08]example it wasn't made for people like him it was made for

[7:16]people who had more function and movement but it came to the

[7:19]house and we put it on him and after a lot of

[7:27]adjustments he was able to use the pupil of his eye to

[7:30]move a mouse and with the pupil of his eye he can

[7:35]type you an email and with the pupil of his eye he

[7:40]can have Amazon speak to him with the pupil of his eye

[7:42]he can pay bills online with the people of his with the

[7:47]pupil of his eye he can watch what's happening here every single

[7:50]night and he has with a pupil of his eye that very

[7:56]slight movement he has his life back however limited we think that

[8:00]life maybe for him its quality of life and the reason I

[8:09]tell you this story is because we're very privileged people we move

[8:14]and we walk and we talk and we complain and we have

[8:21]a hard time letting go of things that were accustomed to and

[8:26]tonight is a night about letting go of things that we've been

[8:35]accustomed to and being brave enough to stand up and to continue

[8:39]to live our Islam as we should it doesn't matter who opens

[8:48]their doors or who closes them faces what matters is that we

[8:55]still have within us the ability to live our Aslam like Sam

[8:58]has the ability to live his life doors open and close every

[9:05]single day of our lives and failures happen every single day of

[9:09]our lives but if it wasn't for the failure of something if

[9:13]it wasn't for the challenge of something we would never find a

[9:20]new opportunity we would never find a new strength we would never

[9:23]find the gumption and the bravery that it takes to lift ourselves

[9:29]up from the bootstraps and make it happen again day in and

[9:32]day out this is an inspiration that I've been living with for

[9:36]all of my life he's my brother I actually took Sayyad say

[9:43]it not to the house and he was visiting and he came

[9:51]to see to see Sam and I showed him this I said

[9:52]look at this miracle just when we think we've lost everything something

[9:59]shows up so life is not about what we lose and it's

[10:07]not about crying over things that we feel so attached to it's

[10:12]about looking at the opportunity to live and the opportunity to serve

[10:19]and the opportunity that can be taken away from us so quickly

[10:24]when we're not aware of it my brother had jus Jo's father

[10:32]yesterday said something so profound to me and I said him can

[10:34]I use that he said you know you can't buy time you

[10:40]can buy everything but you can't buy time and that's true so

[10:44]we have to be busy today tomorrow for years ahead no matter

[10:50]where we are no matter who we are no matter who's on

[10:55]the bandwagon or not on the bandwagon what matters is are we

[10:58]moving forward because time is precious in every breath counts in one

[11:08]of these days breath will run out and when breath runs out

[11:12]there's no longer an opportunity to serve so I congratulate this audience

[11:19]for supporting not the youth actually it is a supporting Islam whether

[11:25]it's in youth or in adults for supporting a mission and a

[11:32]vision that has been in action for almost 20 years and God

[11:35]willing we'll continue to be in action and I would say to

[11:41]you serve wherever you can be good wherever you can and one

[11:46]principle that we have in medicine is to do good and to

[11:51]do no harm and if every day we wake up and we

[11:53]remember that today is our day to do good and to do

[11:58]no harm then on this particular day we are successful and the

[12:02]next day should only be better it's my honor always to serve

[12:08]the youth of this community I will continue God willing as long

[12:11]as God gives me breath to advocate for you no matter what

[12:16]building you are in I will be there for you and I

[12:20]know that you will do great things for Aslam in America and

[12:23]that's why I spent so much time investing in you because one

[12:27]day I will be gone and you will be those shining beacons

[12:32]of hope for all of us and that's something to be really

[12:39]proud of so I salute Sam today and I hope that you

[12:40]will salute Sam today and now I want you to remember when

[12:45]you're having a really rough day just think about that finger that

[12:48]no longer moves and think about that pupil that gave life back

[12:55]and thank God for what you have every single moment of the

[12:58]day thank him so now my life on

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