Happy Muslim Mama: Finding Purpose

I was speaking with my best friend about how the everyday demands of life can get you down and finding purpose in our lives.Every one us of has issues, suffers from stress and can get depressed (I had four months of the baby blues after I had Gorgeous). We all go through times when we lose sight of what the point of it all is. That’s what makes us human and that’s what makes us unique. It’s also a result of the demands and expectations of modern life. That’s what has led me to search manically for answers on the internet, in self-help books, in other people, in myself and in my faith, the only thing that’s has helped me is looking inwards and not at other people and also going back to my faith: why are we here? What is our purpose? Once we start to act according to our purpose, I think maybe we can get some relief.Its something that has been bugging me on and off for the last two or three years – we’re supposed to be humble, but we want to be great, how can we ever be good enough Muslims when even the Sahabah (Companions of the Prophet) used to cry over their past sins (what chance have we got?). We want a good life and beautiful things but don’t feel we deserve them and also that we are sinful for desiring them rather than what is in the hereafter. It’s enough to make you go crazy with guilt and anxiety.I started to come to some kind of understanding about this recently. If we were so unworthy, why did Allah pick us out to give us his message out of over 6 billion people in this world. If he loves us so intensely why can’t we love ourselves? He loves us and sees something good in us, he thinks us fit to do his work, he thinks us fit to be in his beloved’s (SAWW) Ummah …maybe we need to start giving ourselves a break and let him do his work through us and let ourselves fill up with his love.Those thoughts are just helping me a bit, you get tired and exhausted of the guilt and confusion after a while.

“Verily with every difficulty there is relief.” Al-Quran (Nashrah 6 – 7)