I sometimes wonder about the people we meet completely by chance.
The stranger who says something we remember for years.
The friend who arrives at exactly the right moment.
The person who breaks our heart and teaches us something we could never have learned from comfort.
The one who stays.
The one who leaves.
The one we thought would be in our life forever, but somehow becomes a memory.
We call these things coincidences because we can only see the moment.
We don’t see the entire story.
We don’t know what God is moving behind the scenes while we are busy trying to understand what is happening in front of us.
Perhaps that conversation you almost didn’t have was meant to change something inside you.
Perhaps the person you met during the lowest season of your life was sent to remind you that you weren’t alone.
Perhaps someone leaving your life was not a punishment, but protection.
And perhaps the person who disappointed you was still part of a lesson God knew you needed.
We are so desperate to understand why something happened that we forget something much simpler:
“We don’t have to understand the whole plan to trust the One who does.”
There are people who enter our lives for a season and leave before we’re ready.
At the time, we may think their departure means something went wrong.
We ask ourselves what we could have done differently.
We replay conversations.
We search for the moment everything changed.
But sometimes, nothing went wrong.
Sometimes a chapter simply ended.
We want Him (God) to explain everything before we accept it.
We want to know why this person came.
Why they stayed.
Why they left.
Why we loved them.
Why it hurt.
Why the door closed when we were still standing in front of it.
But faith asks something different from us.
Trust before understanding.
Maybe that person wasn’t meant to stay.
Maybe they were meant to teach you.
Maybe they were meant to soften you.
Maybe they were meant to expose something within you that you had never noticed.
Maybe they were simply one small part of a much larger journey.
And you may never know the reason.
That’s okay.
It’s beautifully stated by Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him),
“And know that what has passed you by [and you have failed to attain] was not going to befall you, and what has befallen you was not going to pass you by. And know that victory comes with patience, relief with affliction, and hardship with ease.”
Not every encounter needs an explanation.
Some people become memories.
Some become lessons.
Some become lifelong companions.
Some become prayers we eventually stop praying.
And some become the reason we finally found our way back to God.
So be careful when you call something an accident.
You see the meeting. God sees the meaning.
You see a person entering your life. God sees the entire road that led them there.
And perhaps one day, when you look back at everything you once questioned, you’ll realize that even the people you couldn’t understand had a place in the story.
Not because everything they did was good.
Not because every relationship was meant to last.
But because nothing is beyond God’s knowledge.
And you are exactly where you need to be.
The people around you are part of the lesson.
The people who left were part of the protection.
And the person you haven’t met yet is already somewhere on the road God has written for you.
So keep walking. Have total trust in Him.
You don’t need to see the whole path.
You only need enough faith to take the next step.
What an insightful article.
Thank you
Amen 🙏🏽 Wow, so VERY insightful and beautifully written 👌🏽😁 Excellent job 🙏🏽