Khabib Nurmagomedov: belief

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…And as you were explaining that helped you in your career in the sense that, you know, psychologically, by keeping you from letting success go to your head? That helped me with everything. I’ve always placed my only hope in the Almighty. Whatever situation I might face, I’ve always believed that only the Almighty can truly make it easier for me. And when it comes to not letting success go to your head, not becoming proud, not becoming full of yourself, religion and my faith in Allah have helped me with that too. I truly believe that only faith can help a person get through life’s hardest trials. And sometimes I think about people who suffer the loss of a loved one, someone very close to them. For example, when I lost my father, I remember thinking to myself, “If I didn’t believe in the Almighty, if I didn’t have faith in God and understand that it was predestined, that we all come into this world and then leave it, that no one stays here forever, that no one belongs to anyone, and we all belong to the Almighty, and that we will all return to Him, I don’t know how I would have coped with it. ” I’m a very emotional person. I think it would have been extremely difficult for me to go through all of that without faith. In that sense, I feel fortunate to have this understanding. So faith really helped you when you lost your father?…

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