Source: CNN
Author: Kerry Egan
As a divinity school student, I had just started working as a student chaplain at a cancer hospital when my professor asked me about my work. I was 26 years old and still learning what a chaplain did.
“I talk to the patients,” I told him.
“You talk to patients? And tell me, what do people who are sick and dying talk to the student chaplain about?” he asked.
Good article, linking human love and love for God.
Also reminded me of Abou Ben Adhem.
Interestingly, the root of the word Al Rehman, an attribute of Allah, meaning the Gracious, is the same as for the womb, reflecting the blood relations through ones mother. There is a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, one who does not thank fellow men does not thank God. …
Good conduct, caring mankind ia a virtue and virtue leades to love and pleasure of Almighty God Allah. May Almighty God Allah bless you awards of this virtue.