You know that prior to You guiding me to Islam, my heart was soft, but the emotions felt too big to handle, so I numbed it. By Your Mercy, You didn’t allow it to harden. It was distracted and heedless, hurting but hopeful.
As someone who was avoidant of emotions, You taught me how to feel.
You taught me how to use my heart to see and think. To understand the world around me. To know You a little bit more each d...
This ayah softened something deep in my heart. It reminded me that I’m not alone in how I feel that every tear I’ve ever shed, every smile that’s crossed my face, came from the One who knows me better than I know myself.
There was comfort in that. It made my heart feel seen, held, and understood. In a world where emotions can be misunderstood or judged, this verse gave me permission to feel to cry without shame, to laugh without guilt. Because ...
This surah mentions the pair of contrasting emotions twice – first under the divine will and the second time under human free will. While there are various interpretations of the first verse(43), I recently discovered a medical interpretation when my mother faced a challenge. As a chronic patient with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease, she experienced a condition known as Sjögren's(SHOW-gren’s) syndrome, where the glands responsible fo...
Growing up till most of my adult years, I am known to be emotional and highly sensitive. I would cry at the littlest things. The littlest things can upset me.
Surah Al Hadid taught me that the One who sent down Iron is the same One who sent down Prophets AS and The Books. If I follow my Prophet SAW and the Quran, I can steel myself from unnecessary emotions. I learn to apportion and direct my emotions and put them rightly where they belong.
There are two emotions most humans will spend their entire lives avoiding or chasing. Many will avoid sadness and many will chase joy.
It's only human after all to avoid discomfort and pain and pursue comfort and happiness, though we know growth happens when we leave our 'comfort zones' and trials can lead to our greatest transformations.
Allah qualifies the two emotions of sadness and joy, which He tells us He has enabled us to feel in Sura...