Creation of Afghanistan and it's relationship to Shi'ism

If one were to reflect upon the creation of Afghanistan one would come to the conclusion :

1.) It was a sectarian matter
2.) The defeat of the Safawid dynasty effectively ended the spread of Shi'ism to Central and South Asia.

Something i must say in my opinion overlooked (?) by modern scholarship and Sunni Islam. 

Love struck

Words of comfort for lovesick people from the great doctor of the heart, Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him):

"If there is no way for the lover to reach his beloved, either because it is not divinely decreed for him, or because of some shar‘i impediment, or both, then this is an insurmountable problem. Part of the remedy is to make himself lose hope and despair (of ever reaching his beloved), because when one loses hope in something, he will be relieved of worrying about it and will stop paying attention to it.

If the sickness of love continues even though he has given up hope, then this is a sign that he has developed some serious psychological problems. In that case he should move on to another remedy, which is to address his mind and think rationally, because it is known that being emotionally attached to that which one has no hope of attaining is a kind of insanity; the one who is afflicted with that is like one who falls in love with the sun and thinks constantly of climbing up to it and running in its orbit with it. Such a person is regarded as insane by all rational people."

(Zaad al-Ma‘aad, 4/251)