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In the end of the day, we will be able to see how we utilize it for our benefit and the benefit of others.

And at the same time, it is important to realize that we return to Allah leaving behind absolutely nothing besides our deeds.

Your wealth will remain, your family will remain.

The health you have shall be gone totally.

And everything you own in this world shall be left behind, your deeds will come with you.

So let us do as many deeds and good deeds as we can so that we can really be from those who are successful, not only in this world but even in the next.

Remember whatever Allah has ordained and whatever He has prescribed upon us, it is for our benefit and our good.

Nothing is to our detriment.

It is impossible for the Almighty to have instructed us to do that which is harmful for us.

It is impossible for the one who loves us more than our own parents to have asked us to do something that is dangerous for us or detrimental.

So when we are asked to reach out to others, remember it is very important to dig deep in our pockets and to look into our homes and to see what we have.

No matter what amount, but if it is done for the correct reasons with sincerity to please the Almighty, to reach out to fulfill the Almighty's instruction, then indeed we will have fulfilled our duty and we will have earned closeness to the Almighty.

For this reason when we say reaching out to others is extremely important, it is because Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has instructed it and He has kept our own happiness through reaching out to others.

Reach out to your children by spending time with them, by being a good role model for them, by showing them the way and the path, by making choices for them in their early lives.

If such that when they grow older they will have the knack of making the correct choices.

We should never make wrong choices for our children from a young age in a way that when they grow up they have no idea how to make choices.

So we will be able to reach out and help our children if we do fulfill the role that Allah has placed on our shoulders as parents and as adults.

Reach out to our women by fulfilling their rights, by honoring them, by raising them to the platform that Allah has raised them upon by not oppressing them, that is the way we reach out to our sisters and our women, by granting them what Allah has granted them, by involving them in whatever Allah has involved them in and at the same time respecting them like nobody else has respected them.

If you look at those before us they have disgraced a female and at the same time they have made her believe and think that through that disgrace she is achieving freedom.

Whereas Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says no, we should honor the female and that is how we will reach out to her. May Allah make us from amongst those who can reach out to the women folk.

We should reach out to the orphans and to the widows as well reaching out to those and assisting them even if it means through a prayer, even if it means through a donation, whether it be in a box that might be by the door of one of the masjids or it means a visit where we will offload that which we are not even using in our homes.

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