Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Dealing Anxiety and Fear of Dying
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The speaker discusses the importance of avoiding anxiety and fear when dealing with anxiety. They suggest reading books and taking recorded lectures to practice learning and understanding Islam. The goal is to become more aware of one's deeds and achieve a sustained study.
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So those people who suddenly got a lot of anxiety of death, I think
we have to the approach to this is we have to see why we get in this
anxiety. If we get in an anxiety because we are doing something
wrong, and we get an anxiety that's beautiful that will
inshallah stop us from doing I'm just giving a more comprehensive
answer, right? So that will inshallah deter us from doing that
wrong, because obviously, that's the way to get rid of the anxiety.
However, there's some people, they get anxiety, and sometimes it's
from the shaytaan, sometimes the anxieties from the shaytaan. When
is it from the shaytaan, when it makes you feel despondent, when it
makes you feel hopeless? That's from the shaytaan, you have to
read our older biller. And the antidote to that is
online, you will be able to find and if not, we should collect some
verses. In fact, that's a topic that we want to cover soon. The
hope that Allah promises, multiple verses in the Quran that are
providing hope, have a collection of the especially people who are
having bouts of anxiety over death, their situation they need
to, and they're not really doing much wrong, they're trying their
best, they've made a lot of amends in their life, than they need to
look at Hope. And there are numerous verses numerous Hadith of
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam that speak about hope. So have that and
start reading that. And essentially, it's an antidote to
the bad feeling and read out all the bIllahi min, Ash shaytani R
rajim. So some kind of anxiety is good, because we're encouraged to
think of the destroyer of pleasures, which is death. So
we're not going to say we want to get rid of it. It's very, very
beneficial to actually remember that it grounds us, it moderates
us, it regulates us. But an A, too much of anything is a problem. And
it could be from the shaytaan shaitan has his ways. So again,
think why am I getting this anxiety? If I'm doing something
wrong? Let's stop doing that wrong. And if it's otherwise, or
in general, let us start reading those promises that we have here a
birdie Alladhina Astra for Allah and foresee him letter opener to
me Rahmatullah. Allah Himself is saying, Oh, my servants, he's
still calling them My servants who have transgressed against
themselves. You know, we have fathers who come home and the
mother is complaining about her beloved child, she's not willing
to call that child hers that day is like your child did this. Your
child do mothers do that sometimes sort of fathers. Your child is not
my son today. Right?
Why? Because you're so angry, but Allah, he's saying, yes, you've
transgressed. But you're my servants. Oh, my servants, so
beloved, that so affection, isn't it? Oh, my servants who have
transgressed against themselves, do not become despondent in the
mercy of the Most Merciful One, in the Mercy of Allah.
Allah forgives everything. So that's what we should do. And in
fact, the we've been told that, especially when a person is
actually very close to death. That's the worst time the shaytan
comes and tries to make us despondent to say something bad.
So one has to the antidote is so we have two things, we have hope.
And we have fear. Some people have too much, oh, boy, I can do this,
I'll be forgiven. It's alright, ALLAH is forgiving. They need to
look at more of the fear factors, right. And those who have too much
fear, they need to look at more of the hope. So you balance it out
because we need to fly in a balanced way. And may Allah make
it easy. The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate, which you take 20 Short modules, and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as aka la harem Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah
wa barakato.