Once I went to the dentist to get a cavity filled, and they shot me up with Novocain. And my tongue also became numb. Unbeknownst to myself while I was under the Novocain, I had bit a hole in my tongue, not a big one but enough so that when the Novocain wore off, my tongue was throbbing in pain. And that pain sort of disrupted everything I was doing to the point that it overwhelmed my consciousness and overwhelmed my ability to get things done or to move around or to do anything. Fortunately, Allah has made things in such a way that your tongue heals quickly. And within a day or a day and a half or two days the pain was gone, and I was like a different person. Well, you should probably say a Fatiha after that kind of a recovery at least for the consciousness of understanding how close we are to being inoperable as beings at any moment and how there can be this amazing turn around so quickly that you go from inoperable to functioning as if that part of you that was inoperable is forgotten.
Well, we don’t just deal with physical pain. We also deal with psychic pain and with mental difficulties or with difficulties in our own consciousness because of certain weaknesses in our personal being to the point where circumstances overwhelm us. And sometimes these kinds of situations are more difficult to overcome than the situations dealing with a physical bruise.