You are not lazyStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

If you have thought about ending your life, or you have found yourself thinking that failing would be unsurvivable, that comes before anything on this page. Tell someone today, contact your doctor, or use your local emergency number. And if the pressure you are under at home has started to feel unsafe rather than heavy, that needs a different kind of help and it exists. This course is not an emergency service.

Lesson 3 of 6

The sentence you have probably been told

Just make dua and Allah will make it easy.

It gets said kindly, and it gets said by people who mean it. Said to somebody who has not opened the book since March, it functions as permission to keep not opening it, and it usually comes with a second sentence about how the result is written anyway.

Both halves are worth taking seriously, because the tradition itself answers them, and it answers them more directly than most people realise.

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