It is as though Allah, through His subtle gentleness, draws your heart away from becoming attached to a single wound, until you become occupied with Him alone and forget that wound, then the next, and the next, until you are no longer a captive to any wound, but only a captive to Him.
It is a reward, yes, a reward!
For when the heart is overwhelmed by the multitude of blows it receives, it becomes completely broken before Allah, and is freed from dependence upon any cause or created being. All consolation then becomes with Allah alone, and all hope rests with Allah alone.
So what I once thought was constriction was, in reality, preparation for me to experience complete detachment [from everything besides Allah].
I can only say:
“Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we shall return; and to Him is the final return and destination. So to Allah belongs all praise, in the beginning and in the Hereafter.”
Sheikh Abu al-Ala al-Rashid (translated by akh Ibrahim al-Ansari)
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