Death…
I don’t want to get into what death really is, or what lies beyond death. I just want to talk about what it means to those who get left behind. To them, it means simply that their loved one has been lost forever...
How do you measure these things? How do you understand what goes through a five year old boy who lends his shoulder to lift his father’s coffin? How does that compare that to an aging man who loses the son he’s adored from the moment he was born? How does a woman whose world revolved around her husband feel when he dies and leaves her alone like she’d never imagined?
Losing someone you love – friend, parent, sibling, spouse – to distance or circumstance is hard enough. But losing someone irrevocably to death kills you. Well no – the hard part is that it doesn’t kill you. It hurts enough to kill, and yet you have no choice but to live on.
If death is inevitable, then why do we allow ourselves to love someone so? If love is inevitable, then why doesn’t it die when the one you love does?
3 Comments:
Very true. Its not just the person dies who faces death, all the people who are truly connected also end up losing a part of their life for good. Its as if a part of them also dies. Ironically, the biggest fact of life is the one that hurts the most :) arre yaar, atleast yeh to mast, happy waala rahna tha... well, keep writing such that my brain gets a chance to wake up and think too ;)
"If death is inevitable, then why do we allow ourselves to love someone so? If love is inevitable, then why doesn’t it die when the one you love does?"
Beautifully put ! How I wish this cud b so easy !!
I think thats why heaven is so appealing-- there are no goodbyes, no broken hearts, and love flows through , never ending. i heard sh hamza say it just a week ago... its the sunnah of God on this earth that everything will come to an end. company, family, friends...
but you have to move on, and hope that knowing good people that have gone away makes you a better person, left something behind for you to live by, and makes you look forward to meeting them once again.
the Sahaba moved forward after the beloved (S) passed on, never forgetting him (S) and what he (S) left behind, and the pain became so unbearable at times that those like Bilal (R) couldnt even come to entering the Radiant City again... until he was asked to come back, and it was just as difficult. And at the time of his (R) death, he was overjoyed for the imminent reunion of the beloved (S).
because isn't that the reality of this worldly facade? We WILL all meet once again.
Longing for the loved one, acceptance of the Divine Decree, and patience until the reunion.
you make me think cousin, you really do.
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