Assalamualaikum..
love is a serious mental disease.. no, it's not.. but desire is.
if being in love means our lives are in pieces and we r completely broken, miserable, utterly consumed, hardly able to function and willing to sacrifice everything, chances are it's not love. despite what we taught in popular culture, true love is not supposed to make us like drug addicts.
if our love for something makes us willing to give up our family, our dignity, our self respect, our bodies, our sanity, our piece of mind, our deen n even our Lord who created us from nothing, know that we r not 'in love'. we r slaves.
imagine the severity. to have one's sight, hearing and heart all sealed. Hawa is not pleasure. it is a prison. it is a slavery of the mind, body n soul. it is an addiction and a worship.
real love brings about calm - not inner torment. true love allows u to be at peace with urself n with God. that is why Allah says: "that u may dwell in tranquility." hawa is the opposite. hawa will make u miserable. and just like a drug, u will crave it always, but never be satisfied. u will chase it to ur own detriment, but never reach it. and though u submit ur whole self to it, it will never bring u happiness.
True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one's love for Allah. it should strengthen it. That is why true love is only permissible. Outside of that, it is nothing more than Hawa, to which we either submit or reject. we are either SLAVES to Allah or SLAVES to our hawa. it CANNOT be both.
~~Yasmin Mogahed..
wani, if he is urs.. then, he will be urs.. in the willingness of Allah.. insyaAllah.. pray for the best..
the time will come..sooner r later..
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