We must realize that nothing happens without purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not even pain. That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for us. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that we need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns us to remove our hand from the fire, emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal change. We need to detach. Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more dunya hurts us, the more we inevitably detach from it. The more we inevitably stop loving it.
"Verily with hardship comes ease." [Qs. 94:5]
Growing up I think I understood this ayah wrongly. I used to think it meant; after hardship comes ease. In other words, I though life was made up of good times and bad times. After the bad times, come the good times. I though this as if life was either all good or all bad. But that is not what the ayah is saying. The ayah is saying with hardship comes ease. The ease at the same time as the hardship. This means that nothing in this life is ever all bad (or all good). In every bad situation we're in, there is always something to be grateful for. With hardship, Allah also gives us strength and patience to bear it.
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