Love is like Rizq

Reflections on the "Why Me" Series

Dear Reader,

As a lover of literature, particularly the kind that involves romance, I’ve read a lot of metaphors and similes that try to explain what love is. I’ve seen love described as nature: the wind, mountains, or gentle rain. I’ve seen it compared to music: sweet, soft and soothing. Love has also been compared harshly to war or an all-consuming storm. But I’ve never before seen it compared to rizq. 

In Episode 13 of Dr. Omar Sulieman’s Why Me Youtube series, he compares romance to rizq (sustenance or wealth), saying “it’s not something everyone is going to have in this dunya.” Just like your hopes and dreams of becoming a millionaire may not come to fruition in this life, such may be the fate for your dream of marriage. 

Although, I’m off social media for Ramadan, I’ve heard through the grapevine that this simile comparing love and marriage to wealth, is breaking the internet. People, particularly the young folks, are going crazy because their bubbles have been burst. Maybe they, l…