A Reflection on Love

By: Yasmin Mogahed

All of this love. Every piece. Every part of all the love in this world. The love they make poems with. The love of spellbinding novel. The love in songs. The love they tried to capture in a movie. The love of a mother for her child, of a child for her father. The love that liberates. The love that enslaves. The love you win. The love you lose. The love you chase. The love you live for. The love you know you’d die for. The love that makes men bleed. The love that swords have killed for.  The love of fairytales and tragedy.

It is all just a reflection.

An echo. Of one single Source. Of a single love that you know, and I know, because we knew it before we could know. We were loved before we could love. You were given before you could give or know what it was to give. It is the love that your heart was created to know. It is the love that creates and sustains all love. It is the love that was before—and will remain after all else has passed away.

It is the love that was before…and will remain after all echoes have passed away.

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  • Basma Zaki

    Awesome :) ))

  • Anonymous

    beautiful, moving. Jazakom Allahu khairan. Truly an inspiration to read during hard times. Alhamdulillah. May Allah swt reward you

  • emryaz

    awesome line; We were loved before we could love. You were given before you could give or know what it was to give. !

  • Mariamtag92

    INSPIRING!

  • seeker

    Profound. SubhanAllahil Azeem! May Allah make us able to feel His Love for us, and make us His true lovers.

  • D Moussa95

    I have never connected those two thoughts together! It’s beautiful!

  • Ayesha

    MashAllah again sister you took the words out of my mouth subhanallah allaho akbar how the believers are like one body…Lately I have been reflecting upon the fact that we must love ourselves before we can love other other people but in some way that did not make sense as I felt …How can we learn to love ourselves if we did not have anybody who taught us that unconditional love and most of the time thats our biological mother our first teacher who teaches us what true love is and thats why paradise is under mothers feet…Perhaps Allah Put His Unconditional love into all womens heart so it could be given to innocent newborn babys and that way through our mother we learn unconditional love and that allah loves us loved us before we were born and by knowing this remembering this being grateful for allahs love for us we can love ourselves and then other people inshaAllah

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