Pain !!! That's Normal ;)

You are holding on, I know you are. Some days are probably difficult, unbearable even, to the point that you spend hours crying for no reason at all. There is fear within your core, your body will not stop shaking out of sorrow, and you wonder whether you will ever taste happiness again. In these moments, you must remember that each day draws to a close; all you need to do is make it through until the end of that day. Make it through each minute, make it through each hour. Your pain is only temporary, and like each day comes to an end, your pain will also come to an end. You see, everything in this world is temporary. It will get better and you know it will, because you can feel it in the depth of your soul. It may appear that this is too far in the distance for you to be able to see, but the faint outlines are visible to you. Keep your eyes open. You can see the light, you know you can. It won’t always be this way.

Pain teaches you valuable lessons that will be instilled within you for the rest of your life. Pain is the educator, it will strengthen you, it will provide you with wisdom, but this does not mean that we should revel in it or that we should be broken by it. We should use pain as a means to draw ourselves closer to our Lord. Pray. It is the only thing in this world that will help you. Allow it to be your medicine, and know in your heart and soul that Allah SWT is your only hope. Nothing in this world can cure you; there is not a creation that can rid you of your pain. He brought this pain into your life and only He can take it away.

Take a moment to appreciate the smaller things in your life, you will locate joy in these smaller moments, and it only takes one of these moments to believe that your emptiness is temporary. You will taste the sweetness of bliss, and will want to let your pain go. We too often hold on to pain and the memories that are attached with it.

You are strong, you are beautiful. Don’t waste your moments. Whatever it is that you are holding on to, let it go. It is self-inflicted pain. Let it go. It may keep haunting you, seeping into the night, drowning out the silence, but the light will eventually consume you. The sun will rise. The acceptance of the revelation that you do not care anymore, is revolutionary. Everything will suddenly become magnified, and you will feel like your life has been restored. You will feel as if you have been reborn, you will rediscover and enjoy life as if you have been released from captivity.

Pain makes you feel heavy. You are tired all the time. Drained. You want to do nothing but wallow in your sadness. You find a place in your thoughts and it becomes home. You need to leave. You need to stop thinking. You need to let it go. Where is it getting you?

Moments will consecutively build themselves and they will ultimately work in your favour. Think of the ultimate picture of the jigsaw puzzle that you are piecing together. Keep that end picture in your mind. You will attain in, but do not lose your way. Do not lose hope. Do not lose faith.

Allah SWT is here. Let Him heal you.

Logic ;)

A few days ago, I was shopping with my mother. I wore my Hijab loosely using a single pin to keep it in place. As we were walking, there was a sudden gust of feral wind which caused my Hijab to come undone and almost fly into the air. I held it down until the wind stopped and then realised that I would have to find somewhere to redo my scarf. I turned to my right, hoping to use my reflection in the glass of the shop window to mend it. However when I turned, there was a large mirror placed in the window, right in front of where I had been standing. I smiled, and used the mirror to fix my scarf. As I began to walk away, I thought about how coincidental it was for that mirror to be placed in that exact position in the window, precisely where I had been standing.

I thought about this for the rest of the day, and realised that I could use this example and apply it to life. Allah SWT sometimes brings calamity into our lives, but He always provides us with the means of dealing with them. My scarf almost came off my head, and yet the mirror was right there so I could fix it. It seems like an asinine example, but the simplicity of it, depicts this notion correctly. We may think that we have all of these problems that we cannot solve; we remain oblivious to the fact that Allah SWT has already preordained these predicaments.

“Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear…” (Qur'an, 2:286).


This means that there is not anything that is inflicted upon us that we cannot deal with. This statement in itself is a source of strength. We should always rely on Him, we should place our faith in Him, we should turn to Him, we should ask for help from Him, we should trust that He will cure us. We are His creations; He loves us more than we can comprehend.

There is always the means of solving and overcoming, we need to believe this, and we must find our strength and deal with our quandaries because help always exists. Everything will resolve itself, everything heals.