Allah gives us gifts, but then we come to love them
as we should only love Him. We take those gifts
and inject them into our hearts, until they take over.
Soon we cannot live without them.
Every waking moment is spent in contemplation of them,
in submission and worship to them.
The mind and the heart that was created by Allah,
for Allah, becomes the property of someone
or something else. And then the fear comes,
the fear of loss begins to cripple us.
The gift—that should have remained
in our hands—takes over our heart,
so the fear of losing it consumes us.
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