Islamic Pearls

“You and him are meant to be together.”

It sounded cliché, and for a while, I suppressed the urge to laugh.

“There is a reason why you and him and together. Because you can handle this, and he’s not sent to someone who can’t handle it.”

Taken aback, I responded,

“That’s a nice way of looking at it,”

“Yeah, especially from his perspective.”

As I left the WIC office, the ayah came to my mind,

“Allah does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear…”

It’s amazing how human minds can reflect upon situations, incidents, and experience, and come up with a beautiful way of presenting it verbally, in sentences. Yet how much more amazing it is, to realize that all these have been mentioned by Allah in the book that is our guidance in this earthly life.

I was taken aback not because she came up with a nice way of looking at it, but because what she said resonates with the ayah above, especially since she’s not Muslim.

Whatever tests and trials Allah doles out to each and everyone of us, no matter how trying, we have the inner strength to bear it. Mothers who have children with chronic and acute conditions ranging from eczema to multiple food allergies are so because they are capable of handling it.

Of course, one would never think that in the throes of watching one’s child scratch his skin away, or in the agony of trying to find something he can eat without reacting to the food.

However, an affair of a Muslim is always good. Subhanallah!

The tenacity of an athlete in training for an event is a perfect instance of human resilience and inner strength. No pain no gain is very applicable in our daily lives, for the road to Jannah is not paved with gold, but rather, strewn with thorns, rocks, and every other possible hurdle to make it a very rugged terrain. Just as an athlete’s body is put through numerous and repeated pain, a human soul is also put through numerous and repeated tests. Just as the muscles and stamina begin to build up in an athlete’s body, the human soul realizes its inner strength as it goes through these tests, one after the other.

Allah gave me a child with multiple food allergies for a reason: because I, as a mother can handle it. Allah didn’t give me a child with food allergies before, maybe because I was not strong enough to manage it. A few years ago, Allah gave me Julaybib, and decreed that he be one of those who dies in the womb, because I can handle it. Allah makes me one of those who homeschool multiple children because I can handle it, though there are many days where I would not attest to that fact.

So yes, I can handle this, and that is why I have been bestowed with this test, in order that I find that inner strength…and that goes for all of us.

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