Your Heart is an Amanah

How would you treat your heart if you truly saw it as an amanah from Allah?

Your heart is not just a beating organ.

It is a vessel of love, pain, remembrance, and longing.

It is the place where your connection with Allah settles, where trust (tawakkul), humility (khushu’) and sincerity (Ikhlās) are born.

Yet how often do we move through life as though this heart is ours to do with as we please?

We hand it over without thought.

We silence it when it speaks of discomfort.

We expose it to harm, craving validation or connection, forgetting its sacredness.

We let it shatter repeatedly, sometimes not because of what was done to us, but because of what we allowed it to carry that it was never meant to.

But your heart is an amanah.

A trust.

Given to you by the One who shaped you in perfect form.

The One who placed within you the ability to feel, to hope, to yearn, for Him, before anyone else.

And like all trusts, it is not yours to neglect.

It is not yours to trade for fleeting attention.

It is not yours to give away to those who have not been sent by Allah to hold it with mercy and sincerity.

When you truly begin to see your heart as belonging to Allah first, your entire approach changes.

You become gentle with your healing.

You become intentional with your love.

You begin to set boundaries not out of fear, but out of honour.

You protect your heart not because you are hard, but because you are soft in all the right ways.

Because what is entrusted to you by Allah is not to be misused. It is to be nurtured, guarded, and purified.

Take a moment today and reflect:

Am I honouring my heart the way Allah would want me to?

Am I giving it away too easily, or am I reserving it for the one who has been written for me?

Am I allowing it to be shaped by the remembrance of Allah, or by the noise of this world?

This is your gentle reminder: you do not need to harden your heart. You need to hold it with more Taqwā.

And in doing so, you will find that healing, strength, and love, real love, begin to flourish from within.

Because when something belongs to Allah, it will always be returned to you better, if you trust Him enough to let it go, protect it, and purify it for His sake.