The Qur’an gently corrects a common human assumption:

the idea that God is distant, and that we must travel far to reach Him.

Allah says:

﴿وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ﴾

(Surah Qaf, verse 16)

“And We are closer to him than his jugular vein.”

The striking beauty of this verse lies in its imagery:

Habl al-warīd (the jugular vein) is the closest and most vital vein in the human body.

Life itself depends on it.

Yet the Qur’an declares that God is even closer than that.

This means:

In moments of loneliness

In fear

In doubt

Even when you have no words to pray

You are never outside the presence of God.

The verse does not merely say that God sees or hears us.

It says that He is near — present without distance, without intermediaries, without conditions.

Sometimes, we do not need to search for God at all.

We only need to become still

and realize

that He is already here.