When you are sad, down and alone...

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalaamu alaykum

I pray that you are well.

When you are sad, down and alone, remember Hajar (Allah be pleased with her) being left alone with her infant son, Ismael (may Allah grant him peace,) in an arid desert of Makkah with no food and water. Hajar did not know what Allah had hidden for her but she obeyed and remain patient. And now you know some of the tremendous things that were hidden for her--which include millions of people following her footsteps between Safa and Marwah during hajj every year until the Day of Judgment inshaAllah! We cannot imagine the reward she is getting in Paradise for her patience.

"O believers, be patient, and vie you in patience; be steadfast; fear God; haply so you will prosper." Qur'an AleImran 3:200

"And be thou patient; God will not leave to waste the wage of the good-doers." Qur'an Hud 11:115

May Allah make us among the patient. Ameen.