The Affliction with a Seeing Eye

About this book

Between the breaking of expectation and the eye of certainty: a journey into the heart of the storm. Have you ever wondered, while a pain no one sees grinds you, whether what you are going through is "punishment" or "preparation"? In this book, Aya Hussein offers no jurisprudential theorizing or canned advice on patience, but opens to you the door of a heart that lived the storm with all its din and emerged from it with a completely different vision. It is an invitation to take off the dark glasses through which we view our destinies, and to reread "pain" as God sees it, not as our fears imagine it to us. This work is a journey of "inner sight" born from the womb of shock; those moments when we feel we are drowning, while God's hidden kindness reaches out to pluck us from the edge of nothingness. Through its pages, you will realize that "heaven's scale is different," and that what you see as breaking in your life may itself be the door of compensation you long awaited. The book moves between the pain of beginnings "the moan of shock" reaching the serenity that comes after crossing, telling you in a warm voice and a soul that tasted the bitterness of loss and the bewilderment.