A Temporary Gift - Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing

It will touch your heart!

A book that breaks your heart and heals it simultaneously, a book that you pause reading repeatedly so that you can absorb what you read, a book thats shows the importance of doing the ordinary with ihsaan.

I have been longing to have this book (A Temporary Gift, by Asmaa Hussein) for as long as I can remember. I am eternally grateful to dawah books for restocking this piece of sheer substance.



Honest and heartfelt piece of writing. I couldn't hold back my tears, so touched was my heart by this story of love, loss, and healing. The pain, the agony, the suffering felt like encroaching home.



What a resilient woman you are Asmaa. The voice you've raised to impart the message of hope and renewal uplifts one spiritually on so many levels. Standing tall in the face of adversity is an honor Allah grants to very few of His chosen slaves. And you surely are one of them.



Your words made me realize how faith, patience and prayer can help overcome the darkest despair. Your courage, grace and steadfastness is exemplary. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala always be your guide and may He The Exalted reunite you with brother Amr in Jannah (and then there will be no parting ways) Allahumma A'meen.



JazakAllah Khayr and warmest thank you for lighting the way for those afflicted with loss. Your profound message of holding onto patience, faith and gratitude is a light that breaks through the darkest of nights.

I came across a excerpt of this book on a facebook page when i was in office i started dying for this book so much that i went to bookstore in my lunch break praying in my heart that i get hold of this book.I read 80 pages on very first day as i was soooo much into it already.This book is true picture of our lives as our life is a test. Our trials might be different but we can all relate to the pain and loss.The way author has related her life n pain with the Quran and hadith teachings is a very enlightening experience. I was very down but this book has helped me a lot and gave me courage to accept the life tests. I pray that Asma gets great reward and May Allah give her true happiness of heart in this life and the next life. Ameen

This book has taught me such precious lessons that I can only just as a reader pray to Allah Almighty to reward this amazing writer for her extraordinary resilience and faith in Allah Almighty. This book has successfully imparted the gems of patience and remembrance of Allah during trials of this worldly life in me. The soulful words has delivered a beautiful legacy of writer's husband that has empowered by belief that even a small deed is counted in the eyes of Allah. The ayahs from the Quran and the narrations of the scholar are a perfect match with the content. I am inspired by the fact that how journal writing can be a means for emerging towards a greater understanding of faith. The story made me involved to such an extent that I always spoke out "Ameen" from the core of my heart whenever I reached any Dua regarding the writer's husband during my reading process. I sincerely hope that thousands of reviews (including mine) regarding this book are always a source relief and happiness for the writer.