Maryam Amir – Loss, pain, sadness Hope!

			People tell you that your belief
is weak if you keep crying, that
		

			if you prayed more, read more
Quran, if you were a better
		

			believer, you wouldn't be sad and
wouldn't have these problems that
		

			you should just get over. It.
Here's something you can share
		

			with them. The Prophet Muhammad,
peace be upon him. Had the Qur'an
		

			revealed directly to him, he
prayed the longest with the most
		

			intense concentration, and yet he
still miss Khadija, his wife, rodi
		

			Aloha anha, 10 years after her
passing, he cried at his mother's
		

			grave. Decades after she passed
away, it didn't diminish the
		

			strength of his belief. He wept as
he held his dying son, Salla
		

			alayhi wa salam. It didn't
decrease his trust in God's
		

			wisdom. His having a strong
relationship with God didn't mean
		

			his life didn't have issues and
heartaches. And if the most
		

			spiritually connected person who
knew the most Quran and did the
		

			most worship could suffer from
such intense emotional loss and
		

			pain, then what about us? Salah
and the Quran are a life vest to
		

			keep us afloat. It doesn't mean we
won't be thrust into an ocean or
		

			that we won't be dragged under and
swallowing water and gasping for
		

			air. It means that we have someone
who will bring us back over and
		

			over again. So go to therapy and
seek social support and invest in
		

			self care, but don't let anyone
take your safe space, your
		

			intimate relationship with Allah,
away from you. He is to whom you
		

			can shatter, where you can show
every insecurity and know that you
		

			are still worthy. When people ask,
hasn't it been long enough let
		

			them know for the Prophet,
sometimes it was longer. And PS,
		

			don't forget to download Korea,
the woman Quran reciters app today
		

			you.