Broken For A Reason | When Allah (swt) Breaks Your Heart To Save Your Soul —

“It’s human nature to self-preserve and safeguard your heart from being broken, but it’s important to remember that sometimes Allah breaks your heart in order to save your soul.”

— Shaykh Azhar Nasser

There are things a man [human] doesn’t say out loud. Not because he’s ashamed. Not because he doesn’t feel it. But because he’s taught that silence is strength and pain is typically a private thing.

But silence has its limits. Because sometimes your heart breaks so quietly, even your silence can’t hold it.

I used to think strength was for the large part about keeping it all together. Locking your heart up. Protecting it from betrayal, from failure, from hope that never pans out. I’ve been there. Watched plans collapse, watched people I loved turn cold, watched doors slam shut after years of knocking. You get tired. You start building walls.

But it turns out, those walls can sometimes become your prison.

Sometimes, when Allah decides to break your heart, it’s in order to save your soul. The thing is, we don’t realize it when we’re in pain. We only come to terms with this reality later, once our heads are clearer and our hearts a little more healed.

Sometimes the heartbreak is not the enemy, it’s the invitation. The invitation to finally let go of the idol of comfort, of control, of your own image of what life was supposed to be.

We cling to people, titles, plans, even to our own ego. And when Allah (swt) wants to bring you closer to your real self; the self that can kneel before the Imam (a.s) of our time and mean it, He starts by stripping all that away.

You want to serve the Imam (a.s)? You want to be counted amongst his soldiers? Then know this:

broken hearts are the raw material of his army.

You think you’ll show up polished and perfect when he reappears? No, brothers & sisters. You’ll show up bleeding. Scarred. Limping from the battles no one saw but Allah. And that is who he wants. Not the man who’s never tasted defeat, but the man who has and still chose to stand back up.

We live in a world that celebrates self-preservation. “Protect your peace,” they say. While it is important to protect our peace but sometimes we get carried away with certain slogans & don’t realize our true purpose in this world. We live by fabricated lies, fancy slogans, scattered quotes and reduce the complexity of life to a few catchy phrases. The path to Allah isn’t paved with safety, it’s paved with surrender.

And surrender hurts.

But if that pain pushes you to fall to your knees in the dark and whisper, “Ya Imam e Zaman (a.s), I have nothing left but you,” then it was worth it…

Every heartbreak that brings you to that whisper is mercy in disguise. Remember that.

So let the heart break sometimes. Let the plans fall apart. Let the illusions shatter. Because what remains after the breaking is what you really are.

And maybe that’s exactly who the Imam (a.s) has been waiting for.

اللَّهُمَّ عَجِّل لِوَلِيِّكَ الْفَرَج

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