Whose heart is empty

I was reading an entry from islam-qa.com... i guess it was just one of those days that i just needed a break from the humdrum of work...

so this article was talking about love - a woman had asked... that she had loved a man for whom it was haraam to love and marry, and whether it was right for her to visit a psychologist, or whether it was some kind of black magic or smth.

the answer: there is no black magic in there, only a sickness created by Satan for those whose heart is empty of the remembrance of God.

the mention of this made me wonder: if there is no love, only games played by Satan, then there truly is no true love...

In order to prove it, lets go by proving that its inexistence doesn't affect relationships: match-made marriages...

if the sustainability of marriages depend on whether or not you are your partner's one true love, then match-made marriages will truly fail on a large scale (i mean, some parents are bound to make good matches, right? but most of them won't...right?). but we often hear how match-made marriages, provided they are made on a strong foundation, will last a lifetime...

what is this strong foundation? tolerance, patience, god-fearing i believe... and I only believe... I don't have the proof yet, but it seems that way...

romeo and juliet is a tragic tale, but i believe it could've ended differently, had both of them had faith in God, that God's word will prevail...

so how do we choose a partner then? if god-fearing is in the equation, we choose one equally fearful of god - that is the best yardstick - for everything else then, will fall into place, just like pieces of a puzzle fitting nicely in it's pre-determined slots.

Dare I say God has all the solutions to our problems?

I do.

Yet we so blatantly refuse His guidance, and go about blindly trying to figure out our lives, and filling up buckets full of our own self-pity along the way.

I realized that as children, we'd learned how to live like a Muslim, but we were never really taught what it is like to BE one...

How unfortunate for us all...