I think every muslim knows the notorious line from Surah Baqarah
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Allah SWT does not burden any soul with more than they can bear
And this line from Surah Rahman that Allah swt repeats 31 times
فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
Then which of your Lord’s favors will you deny?
Pain and Grief cannot be rationalized, they can only be felt and lived through
Living through it means that you will go through waves of acceptance, neutrality, despair, anger, hopelessness, the lots
some moments feel hopeless and some moments fly by
Regardless of our feelings, we have to remind ourselves that everything we experience in this life is something God granted to us, not something we were entitled to
Through all of those emotions we need these constant grounding reminders
I can’t give you the answer, the logic, the reason why whatever happened to you had to happen
but one thing I have accepted is that we all belong to God before we belong to each other
We are not entitled to wealth, health, success, tangible things, nor people
Everyone belongs to God before we belong to each other
and God can take away anyone at any second for any reason
It makes me think, love is choosing to love someone, not just disregarding their flaws, not just when it is hard, but even after accepting that they might not be in your life forever
There’s something pure and real about loving someone in the moments that you can, because you can and you make the intention and want to
There’s very few people in this world that would choose to do that regardless of death or circumstance
In Bangla we don’t have a word for “love”