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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. In a world full of people how come you're the only one without a companion?

Is happiness not your lot in life?

You've been created to want a companion, a family, a community, and the absence of them

leads to a deep dissatisfaction with life.

If you're in a stage of your life now where it's in your kadar to be alone,

how can you come to terms with that? How do you deal with loneliness and the fears that come with it? Oh, Oh Abu

you will live you will live alone, die alone, and be raised up alone on the day of judgment.

Some people were not meant to be surrounded by others, but most of us were.

In fact, one of the roots of the word ensan in Arabic is

UNS, which is a word used to describe the comfort that comes with special human connection.

So human beings see comfort through connecting with others and

Allah created us to be within families, extended families, neighborhoods and communities.

That's why the Sunna has created all types of spaces of community and belonging. The five daily prayers at the Masjid, the Taraweh prayers at night in Ramadan,

sharing meals and feeding people together.

And even when traveling, the Prophet Sala,

al-Lah al-A-Wahari-Wislam advised to always have a companion.

In some narrationsations he even forbids spending the night

alone or traveling by yourself if you have the choice not to. An Yabitar Rajul

al-Wahda, a Uyssafir a wahda. Why? The Prophet Salalala-A-Yu-Sra-Wahda.

Why?

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