Tom Facchine – Put Your Trust in Allah

			sometimes help comes from places that you don't expect, you know. And I believe that you really need
to just sometimes get out there and interact with people on a real level, get away from the labels
and the politics, etc, etc. And just get out there and experience life. And you'll be surprised at
what you find.
		

			We were on a trip the other day in the in the middle of nowhere, or in the woods out of range or any
cell phone reception, right. And our car got stuck in the mud. And the closest house I think, was a
40 minute walk away. And so we're, we're walking, we're walking, and we could have had different
attitudes towards it, right? We could have been nervous, we could have been scared, like, we're
Muslims. We're out in rural America, what's going to happen to us like whatever. Or we can be like,
okay, like, Bismillah, let's, let's trust an ally, and let's see what happens. And sure enough,
there was somebody that was home and, you know, they were like, the nicest person. And everybody
		

			that we ran across was, like, stumbling over themselves throwing themselves into the situation to
try to help us out. And so we ended up he ended up firing up the tractor, he had a tractor, and we
rode on his tractor wasn't very safe. But we rode on his tractor all the way back to to our car, and
he had changed and he eventually pulled us out. And we were laughing, and we were having a good
time, we were just kind of connecting on that, that human level. So if I just sat home in my, you
know, in my room, or my house or my masjid, I might have thought, oh, you know, these people are
like this, or these people are like that. But sometimes you just need to get out there. And even put
		

			yourself in a vulnerable situation. Sometimes being in a vulnerable situation. You come to realize
that there's a lot of different people out there, and that there's a lot of good out there. And
sometimes, you need to go out and experience that good to kind of restore your your faith, not only
humanity, but to restore your faith in a law and your trust in a law