“God is sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs.”
“Alone is he who is not with God.”
These words, read long ago, still echo deeply in my soul.
If God exists, then all separations and estrangements are mere illusions — shadows that fade under the eternal light of His presence.
As modern beings, we have turned away from our essence. We have forgotten that we are not mere wanderers but servants created to reflect the Divine. In this heedlessness, we fall prey to the wilderness of loneliness.
We lament time’s swift passage, mourn the loss of loved ones, and bemoan the lack of understanding from those around us — especially the young. We declare this age to be cruel and selfish, grumbling about the coldness of others, fixating on their harshness. Yet in doing so, we drift further from ourselves, tightening the chains of estrangement. This self-imposed exile becomes an exile within exile.
Some seek comfort in the nostalgic glow of the past; others cling to the imagined promises of the future. But no matter where we turn, the emptiness lingers, and the number of those adrift in loneliness and alienation grows.
Yet, the story of existence is greater than we can fathom. All things — humanity, creation, the universe — are but reflections of a single reality. Nothing endures except the Eternal: Only Allah, the One who holds dominion over all.
Only Allah can soothe the ache of separation.
Only Allah can cure the solitude of the soul.
Only Allah can unlock the gates to peace and dissolve the veils over our hearts.
Only Allah can transform cruelty into mercy and fill desolation with love.
Only Allah can revive the heart that has lost its hope and faith.
Only Allah can guide the bewildered traveler home.
In the flow of existence, there is always a quest.
Some, seeking wisdom, uncover the hidden meanings in the unfolding of creation.
Others, blinded by illusion, chase fleeting dreams and wander lost, consumed by the mirage.
Some rely on reason, others on experience, and still others on intuition, yet they fail to realize that no path leads to salvation without the light of revelation and the truth inscribed in the heart.
Knowledge without action is a burden.
A heart that does not feel is a barren desert.
A mind that abandons the search for truth and clings to unexamined beliefs is trapped in delusion.
One who turns away from the radiance of the Divine and plunges into the forest of shadows is the truest exile.
For those who forsake the journey, exile becomes a torment that multiplies within itself.
For those who claim, “I have found,” exile becomes a distance they cannot overcome.
For those who declare, “I am alone,” exile descends upon them like a thick fog.
Exile thrives in shadows and flees from light. Exile is not the world itself; it is the lie we tell ourselves when we fail to find unity within this world.
True exile, true loneliness, is the distance from Truth — a distance imposed by the one who forgets reunion, who doubts the eternal bond with their Beloved.
Where there is Allah, there is no exile.
