MASJID
Even if you already attend jumah regularly. Even if you haven’t been in a long time, give your local Imam a call to see how you might be able to get involved. Very often, your Imam will have suggestions. He may offer counseling or suggest a group, where you can connect with your Muslim brothers or sisters.
SUPPORT GROUPS
Find out if there are active support groups for caregivers in your area. Support groups can be a great way to connect with people who are enduring similar stresses and challenges and may provide some great strategies for coping with burnout and compassion fatigue in healthy ways.
INTEREST GROUPS
Are you into sports? Politics? The outdoors? Antiques? Cars? Literature? Cross-stitch? Movies? Art? Find activities in your area centered around your field of interest. You’re bound to meet some new friends with whom you can chat about the latest game, great novels, or this year’s tomato harvest.
FINDING COMMUNITY
Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
(With the name Allah, the Merciful Benefactor, the Merciful Redeemer)
O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere. – Holy Quran chapter 2: verse 153
O’ Allah, the Creator of heavens and earth, we seek and cherish Your boundless mercies and forgiveness whenever we forget or fall short. Complete our shortcomings as only You can do. We need Your mercy and guidance in our darkest hours, as well as during the brightness of our day. Motivate our faith daily – step by step – towards excellence, and even more excellence as we mend our souls with Your love.
We humble ourselves as we rise in the morning, as another day is about to start with our talk to You O’ Allah. Bless us to be patient with one another and hear our prayer, whether offered one-on-one or as a family unit; let us reflect on the center of our well-being.
Teach us to be people of peace; those who remain still and calm throughout the turbulent storms of life. Nourish our natural tendency to serve Your will as we seek to stand erect and balanced upon a mental and spiritual foundation where love, peace and understanding radiates internally and externally for those in our presence. O Lord, hear our prayer for patience and perseverance in all situations.
Read the entire “Prayer for Patience and Perseverance”
PRAYER for PATIENCE and PERSEVERANCE
Excerpted from the NAMI website, “A Prayer for Patience and Perseverance” (link below)