Dear Abd/Amat,
There will be days that will be filled with so much pain you're not sure if you can keep on being patient. Those days may be so painful that you want to sleep and you don't want to wake up, you've lost all hope, you don't know what to do, you don't think you can keep struggling anymore, you're tired of holding on, you just desperately want the pain to end. You've had enough.
In those moments you may not realise it and you may not even want to hear it but Allah will help you out of that situation.
You may be so pained that you're scared of what the next day holds. Maybe some more pain?
Moments like these are usually opportunities to grow closer to Allah, to submit to Him with the realisation that only He can help you.
Develop beautiful patience in those moments and have an unshakeable trust in Allah without hesitation. And at the end of it all, you will look back and realise that it did end, the pain didn't last forever. You didn't lose anything but instead you gained something, you gained closeness to Him and the ability to rely on Him.
Lots of love,
Nana-Khadijah.
