Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

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The Secrets of Divine Love Journal connects you more deeply with Allah through exercises and questions designed to help you:

In exploring the depths of fasting she writes: “When we are asked to restrain the ego, our addictions reveal themselves, giving us the awareness we need to break free from them. When we can no longer dull the pain of our emptiness with outer forms, we are forces to search for the root of our longing.” The author also delightfully describes the Quran as “a lullaby for the spirit and an alarm for the ego.” This is because “it interrupts the negative patterns of our worldly conditioning by shedding light on the places where we resist divine union with God…parts of the Quran will trigger you, because this revelation is like a pure mirror.”Penulis buku yang satu ini sudah berhasil menginspirasi ratusan ribu pembacanya melalui pendekatannya yang penuh dengan gairah, puitis, dan cinta kepada spiritualitas di dalam blog nya yang berjudul @quranquotesdaily. Di Negara Amerika Serikat, Helwa telah banyak membantu orang lain untuk mengatasi masalah kehidupannya dengan menggunakan pendekatan cinta Allah. Your blessings, your trials and triumphs, your journey of falling and rising, your gifts and talents—they are all connected. Your true calling is held in the arms of your deepest wounds. God only breaks you to remake you, because breakdowns come before breakthroughs. Everything that God has written into your path was meant to prepare you for this exact moment. God wants you to come as you are, not as you think you should be.”

Create connection with your faith community: The questions and prompts within the journal were written for both private contemplations, to be shared amongst friends or answered in book clubs.A marvelous book that gives a sound grasp of this great religion andnourishment to the heart we deeply need. This book is a source of majesty and beauty.” Secrets of Divine Love remedies my deepest existential dread by reminding me of my inherent worth as a being that is unconditionally loved. It pulls from common as well as less known sources, providing evidence to quell the mind and soothe the heart. The carefully curated content strikes deep emotional chords. I find myself irresistibly falling in love with God and Islam.” This is a fascinating book that offers various profound insights and a vision of Islam—and indeed the Divine—that many readers will surely find enlightening and uplifting.”— MOHAMMAD KHALIL, Professor of Islamic Studies at Michigan State University

OMID SAFI, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and author of Radical Love:Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition The Prophet ﷺ was inclined to believe that the goodness that resides in the heart of all human beings could blossom at any moment if God willed it.” (p165) DR. NAZITA LAJEVARDI, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and author of Outsiders at Home: The Politics of American Islamophobia We knew the kindness was always there, and recite Al-Rahman Al-Raheem several times a day, but this had become somewhat out of focus. Many of us would have grown up feeling the restrictions and duties placed on us by religion compromised and negated our freedoms but were necessary for us to reach our ultimate goal – Heaven and Allah’s pleasure. But what we had been missing is the certitude that in this very journey lies our own pleasure too. Personally she's allowed me to come closer to God and fundamentally change my relationship with God. Previously my relationship was fear based but she has taught me God's love for me is greater than any sin, wrongdoing I could ever commit. She's allowed me to understand His love for me unconditional and I have forgiven myself, those who have treated me wrongly, and to seek and receive forgiveness from others. This has changed many of my relationships for good.

In addition to this, the general theme promotes the idea of returning to God, no matter where you are. Going to him as you are and as you come. It is extremely liberating and provides a vast and generous vision of God and His laws. Awakening to faith is not a one time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.

And let me assure you this: InshaaAllah, owning the journal won’t be a regret. There’s something about the Author’s writings are so soothing thats deeply rooting in my hearts and memories. Just as it takes a baby nine months in the belly of its mother to develop, the moon many nights to become full, and a caterpillar weeks in a cocoon to become a butterfly, through entering the womb of Ramadan and fasting the entire month, our faith transforms.” Secrets of Divine Love was written for the longing heart, for the one who is searching for something they have not been able to find. For the one who sometimes spirals into hopelessness and cannot help but feel too imperfect for a perfect God to love. This book is for the one who is at the edge of their faith, who has experienced religion as a harsh winter instead of the life-bearing spring it was sent to be by God. I am simply entranced by A. Helwa’s metaphors and insights. The bulk of her sentences are poetry in motion and studded with pearls of wisdom…The creative way Helwa has integrated her heart knowledge into her understanding of Islam is stunning.”The human mind will always venture to limit God’s omnipresence, transcendent, and mysterious nature into a form or formula that can be understood. Rumi remarks on this inclination through the following poem: the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and thought they had the truth.”