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If you have thought about ending your life, or you feel that nobody would notice if you were gone, that comes before anything on this page. Tell someone who is with you today, contact your doctor, or use your local emergency number. And if there is a person in your life who controls who you are allowed to see or speak to, that is a different problem from the one this course is about, and there are services for it. This course is not an emergency service.

Lesson 3 of 6

The sentence you have probably been told

Allah is enough for me. I do not need people.

It is said with real sincerity, and it is usually said by someone who is hurting. It gets returned to a lonely person as though it settles the matter, and what it actually does is make a normal human need sound like a defect in your tawakkul.

The tradition does not read that way. Musa asked Allah for a specific named person to be with him in the work. The Prophet, peace be upon him, had companions, and in the cave the consolation was to one man beside him. Needing people is not the opposite of relying on Allah.

The ummah is not automatic, and isolation is not piety · Inshirah