How To Mend A Broken Heart? – Yasmin Mogahed’s Podcast Episode

Bismillah. If you’re reading this, maybe right now you’re in the situation where everything goes wrong, whether you failed to get what you have always wanted to pursue, you’re having a fight with your loved ones, or whatever reasons that makes your heart becomes broken.

And often time when our hearts are broken, we tend to get overly attached to the pain that the wound is taking longer time to heal, and it will be such a long way to completely move on from that pain.

So, let me share something with you from what Ukht Yasmin Mogahed has said in one of her podcast episodes on Spotify on ‘How To Mend A Broken Heart?’. Honestly speaking, I really really really love listening to podcasts. So if you have some free time, open your Spotify and listen to famous podcasters – Mufti Menk, Yasmin Mogahed, The Aida Azlin Show, and Nouman Ali Khan, to name a few.

Okay, back to Yasmin Mogahed’s podcast episode. This episode literally discussed about one of Allah’s 99 Names; Al Jabbar (الجبّار). Al Jabbar has few meanings – One Who Compels, Overpowers, The Almighty. Allah as Al Jabbar is The One Who Mends and Fixes what has been broken.

Now, let us see from a clearer perspective of our today’s topic. Little did we know that everything (read it again, everything) that is happening in our life is to show the attribute of Allah. Broken hearts are meant to be mended and Allah as Al Jabbar, fixes things that has been broken. If something is never broken, you would not see how it will be mended.

“Often time, it is the fact that the things break, that makes us call on Al Jabbar. It is the fact that heart breaks, relationship breaks, affairs falling apart, that we are all incomplete, that things go wrong. This is actually a blessing in disguise because they push us to call on The One Who Mends. Had we not experienced break, then we would never have the opportunity to experience Al-Jabbar – The One Who Fixes and Mends, to ask Him to mend our heart when it becomes broken.”

“The word Al Jabbar does not only mean The One Who Mends but it is an exaggerated and intensified word. Allah does not only put broken thing back to how it was before but He makes it better. Allah does not only restore it but He restores it completely and makes it stronger.”

Upon listening to this podcast, it breaks my heart knowing that Allah loves us so much, yet we still complain and sigh for the trials He put us through. So, do not despair and do not lose hope because we can always go back to Al Jabbar, the Compeller.

" Allah is Al-Jabbar. Meaning He can fix anything that's broken. No matter how broken it is, He can put it back together. You can be shattered into pieces through your life problems. Rely on the Al-Jabbar to fix it no matter how impossible you think it is."