08/09/2026
Meet brave little heart, Meeran, who spent his first birthday in hospital just a few days after his open-heart surgery.
This is Meeran's story, written by his amazing mother Sadeeqah Roberts
From bed to balloons.
"They say raising boys is wild. But they don't tell you what it takes to keep one alive."
This video starts where no mother wants to stand: a nurse wheeling a tiny cot away down a long hospital hallway. That walk I will never forget. The walk where I had to hand my not-yet-one-year-old son over for a 6-7 hour open-heart surgery. I watched his little bed get smaller and smaller, and I made a duah with every step he took away from me. Then the tubes. Meeran, my Meeran, who has been fighting since day one with his heart condition. The same baby who had fever spikes and went into heart failure because of pneumonia and then double pneumonia that attacked his tiny lungs. There he is, so small, with a tube helping him breathe, wires on his chest, drains from his little body, chest bandaged where they opened him to heal him.
31/08/2026 - A date that will be written in his story forever. The day his heart was repaired. His tiny fingers with pink nails wrapped in bandages, holding onto my finger. In that moment, he doesn't need a machine to tell him he's safe. He has our Creator and me. His mama's hand is his whole world. The tears still on his long eyelashes, the little nose cannula helping him, the lips so dry. He cried, he fought, he was tired. But he was here. He made it through. And then, with Allah's mercy. Same boy. Same hospital crib. But different. A little boy sitting up, making a pouty face, alive, annoyed, beautiful. Looking at balloons on what should be his 1st birthday week. This is 12 months of Meeran. From a heart that struggled to beat, to a heart that was stopped and started again by Allah's permission. From heart failure to now, a journey to healing. From tubes to balloons.
Meeran didn't just survive open-heart surgery.
He taught us all what a strong heart really looks like.
