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MasyaAllah, I’m reading “Don’t Be Sad” in the mrt this morning and I chanced upon this verse:

In helping others, people have a limit or point, up to which they are willing to strive and sacrifice for others.
And this limit is seldom exceeded.

Consider Husain ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet pbuh. He was murdered and the nation did not stir.

Imam Ahmad was tortured by being severely beaten with a whip. He was on the vergo of dying and nobody moved a finger to help him.

Ibn Taymiyah was captured and was made to mount a mule, to be paraded on it and humiliated. Throngs of people who later attended his funeral did nothing while that happened.

Why? Simply because people, with the rare exception, have a certain limit they will not go beyond helping others.