Many of us have heard the saying, “Nobody can help you except you.” We have started to believe that doing things alone is the natural state of human beings, and the only way to advance. We have begun to think: I will look after myself, and everybody else should look after themselves, as individuals. Nobody can help you but you. Nobody can help me but me. But, what if that’s not how we’ve been created by Allah? What if, instead, we are deeply in need of others–in need of bonding socially with them to be healthy?