The Hajj Doctor

The Hajj Doctor

Acceptance…September 2022 Dr Salim Parker

Life is full of coincidences. Hajj awakens the eyes and the soul. It also provides answers, sometimes in remarkable ways. Perhaps it has something to do with my occupation as a doctor during this holiest of journeys where and when I have the privilege to meet the most diverse and amazing human beings.

Darkness Always Recedes…July 2022 Dr Salim Parker

I am on Arafat,‘ she said softly. I could barely hear her, but her sense of gratitude and amazement was very, very evident. ‘I should not be alive now, in fact I should have died on three occasions already,’ she continued. She came to see me in the makeshift medical tent just before Wuqoof.