Blood Recipient

…And put your trust in Allah if you are believers indeed

(Quran, 5: 23)

RECEIVING THE GIFT OF BLOOD

When people receive blood transfusions, the circumstances are almost never happy. Whether blood loss is due to a car accident, postpartum hemorrhage, or the on-going treatment of a disease, transfusions arrive in our lives in the midst of hardship—physical and emotional.

But rather than seeing the transfusion itself as a sign of this suffering, we can choose to see the offering of blood as a gift…