Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Dealing Anxiety and Fear of Dying

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.