We can have friendships and family and loved ones and community, we can have all of those things. But at the end of the day, we are in this world alone. We came alone, and we are going to leave alone. And in that solitude, if you don't find a connection with Allah, then all these fake connections that you and I have, that are not really based on a relationship with Allah, they will all disappear. They will not last. The façade will dissipate eventually, if not in this life then in the next. So we have to internalize a very powerful reality that Allah has given us: fa-mā ūtītum min shay'in fa-matā' al-hayāt al-dunyā. We treasure all of our relationships so long as, they are
something that is building us towards the
ākhirah.