One of the most important fruits of caring about your nation's affairs: it makes your personal calamities easier for yo…

One of the most important fruits of caring about your nation's affairs: it makes your personal calamities easier for you. Throughout my mother's treatment journey, may Allah have mercy on her, and my accompanying her in her illness, I kept saying to myself:

My mother finds medical care and our mothers in Gaza do not find it..

My mother finds shelter to rest..but what is the state of our mothers and fathers in Gaza?

My mother is treated with a painkiller that relieves her pain and our mothers there are not treated...

My mother was afflicted with an illness in which humans had no direct hand, and the elderly of Gaza are injured, diseased and suffer by human injustice, so oppression and abandonment pain them..

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

This greatly eased my affliction in my mother.

If you do not care about your nation's affairs, do not think you will be spared from sadness and life's troubles. You will be sad, and sadness may fill your heart, but for your personal worries..

While your concern for Muslims' affairs, though painful, contains a precious noble feeling of belonging to the nation of Muhammad.

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