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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. Is there such a thing as love at first sight? What about true love? A lot of us

grow up reading fairy tales with magical encounters and happy endings.

But are those things written to come true for you in this life?

And if you don't find that relationship here, what does that say about your divine decree? Oh, Is there such a thing as soul mates in Islam?

Remember the Hadith of the Prophet Salalah O'Lahari was where he said, al-Araw-Jun-U-Dun-Wajanada,

that souls are like conscripted soldiers.

There's actually a really beautiful story behind them.

Aisha-Dilah,

Tahlana, says that there was this woman in Mecca

that used to make everybody laugh.

So she was the jokester of every gathering.

And then when they made hisra from Mecca to Medina,

she meets a woman in Medina that's exactly like her that makes everybody life in Medina.

And the people were stunned at how similar they were.

And when they mentioned that to the Prophet,

Allah O'Ariwis, he said, al-A-Rwah-Jun-Dun-Mug-Nada.

Souls are like conscripted soldiers.

They incline towards one another based upon this natural affinity. So is there a romantic manifestation of that? Well there's a scholar that said to his wife once that isn't it amazing that 50,000 years before Allah introduced the heavens in the earth, he put your name down next to mine.

Wamin a aye a-ya-tihya, and fussy-kumazwaja, I'm a la béinac with a wada t'nah fidari kala a yahat in the kowma yatifakarun.

And of his signs is that he created for you mates from amongst yourselves that you can

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