One of the most important fruits of caring about your Ummah's affairs: it makes your personal calamities easier to bear…

One of the most important fruits of caring about your Ummah's affairs: it makes your personal calamities easier to bear. Throughout my mother's treatment journey, may Allah have mercy on her, and my companionship with her in her illness, I would say to myself:

My mother finds medical care while our mothers in Gaza don't find it..

My mother finds shelter to rest..but what about our mothers and fathers in Gaza?

My mother is treated with painkillers that ease her pain, while our mothers there are not treated...

My mother was afflicted with a disease with no direct human hand in it, while the elderly of Gaza are afflicted with wounds, diseases and suffering by human injustice, so the oppression and abandonment pain them..

My mother passed away peacefully, while our mothers and brothers in Gaza pass away in painful ways that sadden their loved ones more than death itself..

And this greatly eased my affliction in my mother.

If you don't care about your Ummah's affairs, don't think you will escape sadness and life's troubles, you will be sad, and sadness may fill your heart, but for your personal worries..

While caring about Muslims' affairs, despite its pain, has a noble, honorable feeling of belonging to the Ummah of Muhammad (peace be upon him).

So O Allah, have mercy on my mother, and have mercy on my Ummah.