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My brothers and sisters, as Muslims

we are instructed to help save lives. If you save a life, it is equivalent to having saved humanity at large.

And if you were to take the life of an innocent person away, it is equivalent to having destroyed entire humanity.

If you'd like contentment, learn to help people, learn to give people such service that would save their lives.

We have doctors, we have so many others, we have dedicated their lives to improving the lives of others,

if not saving their lives in totality. May Allah SWT grant us the ability to help people improve their lives and to save lives.

So when you save a life, you will actually achieve so much of comfort and contentment.

Imagine a person drowning and you happened to go there and save them. No matter who they are, no matter what religion they follow, no matter how they think,

no, forget about everything, the fact that you saved a life, you will feel the contentment from the Almighty because Allah created that life too.

And you gave importance to life that was given by the same one who gave your life. That is what it is.

So in the story of Abel and Cain, in the Quran, in Surat Unnisah, where Allah SWT speaks about how one of them killed the other because they became jealous.

And remember we addressed the matter of jealousy and we spoke about how if you would like contentment, you need to eradicate jealousy.

Allah SWT says, the man who committed the murder, regretted it. And Allah says, we then prescribed upon them.

Whoever saves a single life is equivalent to the one who has saved humanity at large.

And this is a beautiful instruction from Allah SWT and Allah SWT has given us these words in order for us to achieve contentment by pondering over the reason of it.

If you think of why Allah says, by saving a life, you have saved humanity at large, you will definitely achieve contentment.

Like I said, you have saved a life given by the giver of your own life, Subhanallah.

That is verse number 32 of this beautiful Suratul Ma'idah, not Suratul Nisa, Suratul Ma'idah.

Then we move on to verse number 79 of the same Suratul Ma'idah, where Allah SWT tells us how important it is to remind people when they are going wrong, to remind them in a beautiful way that they are going wrong, to correct people that is also something beautiful.

My brothers and sisters, to achieve contentment never feel bad when you are corrected.

Because if you feel bad when you are corrected, you are never going to succeed in life, you will be doing things wrong and nothing is going to happen to improve that.

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