(A little sister’s question)
When we help someone, we say that we’re just the means and that God sent us. How does that work? How do we know that they need our help? I’ve been thinking about this for a few days.
How Do We Know When Someone Needs Our Help and We Are to Be the Means?
The essence and first answer at a glance (60-word summary)
God Most High may inspire your pure heart to seek out someone in need, or bring that person across your path. This is one of the countless ways God makes you a means of helping those in need, without your knowing in advance.
Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)
Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural CenterThe Merciful God puts the thought into your pure heart! Without your even knowing it, He guides your steps toward someone in need—or brings someone in need across your path! And in countless other ways, the Almighty can make you an instrument of His in helping those in need.