“While a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own happiness and fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
~ Tom Robbins
When we need something, we ask Allah swt and wait patiently. He gives us when it’s the right time.
Many times, Allah swt gives us what we really need at the most important moments of our lives, even without us asking.
Such is He, the Most Merciful.
But us, we are ungrateful. When we receive blessings from Allah swt, we get ourselves drowned in them and then slowly, we forget Him who has given us those blessings. We forget the Source. Our love for Allah swt now gets divided and we place others where only He should be, in our hearts. We commit shirk in our hearts, and we don’t realize it.
When we do not have something, when we are needy, we turn to Him, in all humility, in all human weakness, in all sincerity but when we feel fulfilled and happy because of some of His blessings, we turn away from Him and we get over-attached to the blessings. In no time, our hearts are no longer attached to Allah swt and His Beloved saw, our hearts are no longer only needy of Allah swt, we now crave to be with our blessings, constantly, all the time.
Unfortunately, that’s not possible. Nobody can be with us 24/7 except Allah swt. When we fill our hearts with other than Allah swt, that’s what happens. We become dependent on matters of this world to bring us the satisfaction to the heart that only God can provide.
When we are single, we seek Allah swt’s help to give us patience and to grant us the right partners. When our prayers are answered and we get married, all our tears, joy and love is now within the marriage. Not that it is bad. It’s healthy but then you begin to wonder, “When was the last time I cried in sajdah? In joy or sadness?”
Now, we reflect and realize that we have confused and mixed up all of our love affairs. Allah swt and His Beloved saw have taken the backseat in our lives? Wasn’t Allah swt and His Beloved saw the one and only goal of the marriage in the first place? Nauzubillah min zaalik…
Ya Rabb, forgive us, and accept our sincere repentance,
again, and again, and again :’-(
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn’t matter,
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again, come.- Rumi
Do not let us go astray after you have guided us, ya Rabb :’-(
Indeed, we are an-naas.
When i decided to get married to you, i liked you but i did not love you, yet. I love the God who plans and decides.
We made istikhaara and we trusted the One who guides. We believed in His promise. We knew that if it was meant to be, He would plant the love and mercy between us.
Now as each new day unveils itself, i feel infinitely grateful to Allah swt for uniting us… and i do not regret one ounce that ours, is an ‘arranged’ marriage… arranged by God this is.
The Creator knows what’s best for His creations and He knew you’re my BEST match. And yes you are, I love you. all thanks to Allah swt.
Shukr Alhamdulillah…
I know i am extremely far away from portrayin the beautiful qualities and ways of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w… I know i am a weak slave of Allah swt… But still, no matter where i stand now on the spiritual path, and whichever state my heart is actually in, for as long as i’m alive, i’d like to at least share my awe of the Beloved of Allah s.a.w, with the world. this awe, this love, is innate… It’s in all of us, if only we stopped to listen
it is a love promised by Allah swt in the Holy Quran. “And among His signs is this that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts); verily in that are signs for those who reflect.” (Chapter 30, Verse 21)
Jasima Syed