No one is coming to save you.

I was homeless. No money. No safety net. No one to call. That’s when I learned the truth: as a man, you are alone. But that’s the best thing that ever happened to me.

Author

Hamza Awaale
March 17, 2025

At 19, I was homeless.

I dropped out of university with nowhere to go. Too ashamed to ask for help, I took the first job I could—£3 an hour at my friend’s bakery.

I survived off leftover rolls and pastries.

At night, I rotated between libraries until they closed. Then, I stayed awake until sunrise, finding quiet places to rest — a coffee shop, a bus station, another library.

I still have the journal entries from back then.

I realised what I had always known: I was alone.

No one was coming.

No one was going to feel sorry for me.

I had two choices: work like a dog and survive, or give up and rot.

I worked.

"O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided."

5:105)

The Wake-Up Call: The Prophet ﷺ was offered everything—wealth, power, status—but rejected it all. He built everything from the ground up.

Nothing was handed to him. He earned it.

Imagine he had given up at Taif.

Or when revelation stopped.

Or the loss at Uhud, where he was severely hurt, and his uncle Hamza killed?

Key lessons:

  • No one will feel sorry for you.

  • Your life is 100% your responsibility.

  • They can only influence you as much as you let them.

Commit to:

  • Taking responsibility for yourself. Allah will help you.

  • Immediate action. Post today. Apply for the job today. Text her father today.

  • Embracing delayed gratification. You will suffer for a while, you might as well enjoy it.

Juz 7 reminds us: No one is coming to save you. No one can harm you if you let Allah be your guide.

What are you still waiting for? For Munkar and Nakeer to start the questioning?

Start today akhi, let this Ramadhan be the last mediocre one ever!

Until next time,

Hamza.