Ebrahim Bham – Islam and Mental Health

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah he Allah hit me he bothered
me. While I have we by the quadratic salat wa salam O Allah see the Libya he will want to study in
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Kola will Azim My dear respected Allah ma scholars, elders and brothers, we are living in an age in
which there are many different challenges. And every age has had its challenges. Just two days ago,
in the same budget, we spoke about the gender identity crisis in the LGBTQ crisis. Today, I would
		

			like to focus on another crisis which has reached in many ways unprecedented level of compared to
earlier times. And that is about mental health, mental illness. It has perhaps been exacerbated
because of our situation because of the stress that we are living with. And it is a reality which we
need to deal with. And Islam, which always gives us solution to all our challenges or our issues,
has also given us guidance with regard to mental health. Now, just a few things. Firstly, I must
also make mention that I'm no expert on this. So I'm not speaking as a psychiatrist or as someone
who is an expert in mental health. But someone who had just done a wide bit of reading with regard
		

			to this, and offering some guidelines which
		

			in which is in our Quran and Hadith. The first thing is, just as someone sometimes feel unwell
despite not having serious illness, sometimes people may experience poor mental health without
		

			proper or full blown mental illness. Mental health is about our mental well being, and includes our
emotional psychology, psychological and social well being. It includes psychotic disorders,
personality disorders, impulse control disorders, it determines how we deal with stress, how we
relate to others, and how we make choices. mental health disorders exist in broad categories.
Sometimes it comes in the form of anxiety disorders, sometimes in the form of mood disorders.
Sometimes you have what to call bipolar, what is bipolar, two different polls. So one poll, you have
someone who is on a high, on the other hand is on a low, so experience, varying degrees of moods,
		

			and of course, in relationship that is perhaps one of the most difficult to deal with. And that is
why you find people having great degrees, great degree of difficulty in relationship when one of the
partners or both of the partners might have Bipolar, then you have anxiety, excessive worry, which
may result in panic disorders. How do you deal with anxiety? How do you deal with emotional stress?
How do you deal with challenges that come up from the worldly point of view, and sometimes there is
depression, low mood or just for as long duration? Now the difficulty we have in today's time in our
society is the stigma. So these are stigmatization of this disease largely unrecognized, therefore,
		

			left untreated, and people hide it, one of the reasons why we will fight in traditional societies
and traditional families, we will deal with people who will say, you know, people will say hi to
Gandalf, and that's the way we look at it. So, even if a person does show this type of symptoms, we
tend to not deal with it and not treating it reminds me of a summit you know, numerous incidents,
they say, you know, once upon a time there used to be a Governor General of Pakistan by the name of
Ghulam Muhammad, he used to be you know, the governor general. So, one day he came to a satanic
satanic Ward, or what we used to call like, you know, a major hospital used to have stepped foot in
		

			each other in in our area. So, one day he came to this particular place and as you walked in, the
people say, if or one more came, so he got very angry, he said, May Pakistan, Governor General roll
out the Governor General of Pakistan. And he said We also used to say the same thing.
		

			So these this whole particular stigma which is attached to it, when we hear anyone want to play a
depression, how do we respond most of the time is no depression is only in your head. What are you
worried about? Allah is in control over things. That does it mean that you don't have faith in Allah
subhanho wa Taala Why are you depressed? Why do you worry?
		

			This is time how we deal with it. It is almost like telling a diabetic patient, pull your pancreas
together, it will create insulin.
		

			You don't tell a diabetic patient patient that you don't tell a patient who is
		

			Got, for example, you know high blood, pull yourself together, you know, your blood pressure will
come to come, right? Sometimes there is an illness which needs a diagnosis, which needs you to go to
a doctor. Why do we, why do we change that particular situation with regard to depression, sometimes
there is an imbalance with regard to serotonin. So we know we tend to undermine it, which
exacerbates the situation, then sometimes we have the value factor. Anything that is wrong with a
person, anything that comes in a situation it is Jaggu bernucci, you must have read this whole
particular situation, a woman became pregnant, so she went to one of the animals. Now luckily, that
		

			Amil was someone who knew little bit about medical aspects also. And he also knew with regard to
what is a pregnancy, so she said, I'm not feeling well know, someone did something to me. So, you
know, he looked at it, and he said, No, there's nothing wrong with you. And he uses Gujarati phrase,
burden manipulation under Bucha is not something to do with outside is something to do when you say
to a pregnant, but for us anything even symptoms of pregnancy, we tend to equate it and say that is
Josue. So what we need to understand that it is not to do depression is not lack of faith. You know,
it's not something that you say you don't have faith in Allah, therefore, you have depression. There
		

			are reasons there are situations which we are not aware. And we have to be very, very careful in
making these types of judgments which unfortunately we do.
		

			In the Quran, there are many instances, who Allah Tala has made mention of great personalities, who
had great amount of challenges in their life. And they will they were, they had situations of
sadness. And you know, worry. One of the most amazing things that you will find is as a party,
		

			when Miraculously, she was about to give birth to us at this restaurant was salam, she conceived
		

			miraculously, as a jewelry blew into a sleeve and she became pregnant. And then when she became
pregnant, she went out to the city. And of course, she was worried how I'm going to face the
community, of being pregnant without marriage. And Allah Allah in the Holy Quran has ordered anxiety
		

			in such a words,
		

			that sometimes it is so
		

			you know, it's something for us to think Dr. Leighton emit to Kabbalah hada if only I had been I had
died before this,
		

			and I would have vanished and have been obliterated, and I would not have been in this if
		

			if only I would have vanished I would have died before this day. What made her say that it was a
worry that how I'm going to face the community with regard to especially coming from such a noble
background, how am I going to face the community with regard to this? And then when eventually she
did come to a community Allah recorded in such a beautiful way? Yeah, after her own Magana. Okay,
Maura, so America Oh, no, Cuba. Yeah.
		

			Oh system, her own mother was
		

			immoral. You Out America will Kimora so, you know, and your family is not from a search of that
ground. Wow. Have you come with a child and being pregnant without marriage? For ashadha delay. And
what did she do?
		

			She she indicated to the small child as a de salud Salatu was Salam. And he from there, he announced
the what what did he say? In the Abdullah I am the servant of Allah. He gave evidence with regard to
the morality and the chaste nature of his mother. But when she said those words yeah Nathan even to
being Cavalier, let us
		

			keep it even a legend and see why you worry. Allah consoler ALLATRA Don't worry, called at ya later
even to a couple of other work of another HMI data alert that has led don't get said
		

			Don't get worried. I have made arrangements for you. You go and stay here is clean water. There is a
date palm shake it you will get fresh dates. I didn't say why are you worried? Why are you making
mention of these things? Allah Tala consoler. Do we do the same and someone shows and give symptoms
and expresses his feeling that I'm worried I'm anxious. Do we console or do we dismiss it? Why we
don't have faith in Allah Tala that you are worrying. Allah Allah didn't tell her that. Allah
subhanho wa Taala consoled her as a young Coblenz Salatu was Salam to consider in this way
naturally, the Holy Quran was here that a woman a host
		

			his eyes and his sight became crowded because of sadness of the disappearance of Azusa Peninsula
Tosa, what was that? Let me agree Mr. Allahu alayhi wa sallam cried many times with regard to the
anxieties that he faced in this world. There is one year in the history of nebula Kareem SummerSlam,
which is known as
		

			the year of sadness, that particular year in which he lost his beloved wife as a Khadija, and he
lost his uncle Abu Talib, who was a pillar of support. So these are things that we have to grow up
with, we can't dismiss it. And what is very surprising is that we stigmatize something, when in
reality, we were the pioneers of dealing with this particular type of mental illness. The first
psychiatric ward, known as Daru, shifa was built by a Muslim physician in the eighth century, he
dealt with matters in a holistic manner, which I will go on to explain how we were kharazi, after he
studied medicine constructed the largest dedicated psychiatry ward. And in that he used to have a
		

			holistic treatment. And part of that holistic treatment was speech therapy, get people to talk about
the difficulties used to have sound therapy. sound therapy used to be that they used to have sicker
and eschar with a particular melodious ways, way way to able to treat the depression of people. Then
you have fountains going look at all earlier Islamic architecture, you always had fountains, the
running of water treated a situation, which was part of sound therapy to be able to bring relief to
people who have tension. Can you one of the most amazing things that I read was Abu Zaid al Buckley,
he wrote a book in which he diagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder, almost exactly is described by
		

			modern psychiatry. And one of the things that they found was that after the people went out of these
wards, they used to give them a stipend.
		

			We were the ones we Muslims were the ones that when people got released and discharged from those
particular words, they were given a stipend, which in today's time, it is part of what is called
relapse prevention strategy.
		

			Can you imagine? You know, unfortunately, today, we have restricted Islam. And I'm not saying we
must become modernists in terms of our thoughts and our ideas. But at the same time, Islam was
progressive Islam was those that brought, you know, whether it be medicine and whether it be any
other things. We were the ones who were there, the people who showed people that will, unfortunately
in the last one or two centuries, and unfold that, unfortunately, we must say, exacerbated by our
thinking about what religion is, we have regressed. And one of the amazing things with regard to
Islam when it deals with this whole particular issue of mental health, it always deals with it
		

			holistically. And it always tells us that you cannot deal with mental challenges. Mental Health in
isolation are only one aspect of your health. So it's said that for you to be able to achieve
optimum mental health, you have to be engaged in wellness, physically, intellectually, emotionally,
and spiritually. It is only when you become wealthy in all of these four spheres. Will you be able
to gain mental health that we briefly make mention with regard to in first physical health? The
health of our physical body is essential to our well being. They can be no wellness without physical
health. My dear respected weathers I can't overemphasize the emphasis Islam has given to protecting
		

			your health. We agree Mr. Allahu alayhi wa sallam said, protect your health before illness overtakes
you.
		

			And what have you let me a cream sauce from say a strong believer is better and more beloved to
Allah than a weak believer believer. When you are strong, you'll be able to do more, when you are
when one thing you do.
		

			Sometimes you might be able to have all those times, you know, used to play tennis with one person
Moromi Brian via you know, we used to play tennis with him so many times when he used to go to the
ball and he couldn't go because he was becoming old. And you see the mind is there the body is not
there. So we have this type of situation. You have to be physically well, to be able to Achieve
Wellness. She has set it up mentally as within a very basic incident. You know, Chef Sadie was also
a very amazing poet, a Persian poet, I did one year of shall start his poems. So in one of his
beautiful incidents he makes mentioned that the king was going out on Expedition and hunting
		

			expedition. So when he was going out in this hunting expedition, there was one person who was
complaining. They had to go in
		

			boat had to go in a ship. And he was complaining, I got sea sickness, I got this illness I got that
illness. So someone, one wise person told the king How will relieve him, I will kill him. He said
how he says Leave it to me. So what he did, one day that person who was complaining took him he
threw him into the ocean.
		

			And some other he threw something with it, so that he could come back safely to the boat and to the
ship after they never complained. So the king said, How did you come upon such a way to relieve and
stop him from complaining? So what a remarkable answer he gave. He said he underestimated this
safety of the boat in the middle of the ocean. When he went into the ocean, he realized the safety
the boat was providing. So then she started to learn it gives us insulin and he says this, many
times people don't value health until sickness overtakes them.
		

			Brothers look after your health, I hope I can be able to say this earlier. But this is a reality
when you are young look after your health. You know, there was a very great person in our community,
Maulana toorani, you know, and I used to stay with him a lot and I used to I learn a lot from him.
And one day he told me as he told us, he told his children and he told people very amazingly, he
said Allah in the NAFSA let them with the hottest Mariska no one will die until he completes his
risk, Kota, his quota of risk. So to see you, why do you finish your quota so quickly, but over
eating
		

			while you're finishing your quota so quickly, which of course have other health repercussions? So
that's one of the things the other has three aspects with regard to wellness is intellectual well
being. You know, there's so much of emphasis with regard to affiliate the brutal Quran, war to
ponder over the Holy Quran, heavy intellectual stimulation. Keep yourself busy intellectually, you
know, in Surah Arafa Tara in the Holy Quran says well under the Rana the Johanna Mata Filomena GIF,
I will fill Jahannam with many human beings who will lie of Kahuna behalf. They have hearts, but
they don't understand. They have eyes but they don't see of obviously they see but what do they see?
		

			Sometimes they see naked woman they're not supposed to see them. They're supposed to see something
else. While Omar you know, let you see when
		

			they have used but they don't hear
		

			karate, or Judo or Quran.
		

			When they listen to music, they dance and when they listen to Quran they fall asleep. So as that
Allah in the Holy Quran has made mention, that those who do not use the internet to reach the truth,
they are called an army by whom they are worse than animals. So as that Allah tells us to use our
intellect, that's the reason why Islam is placed so much emphasis upon education. The very first
verse in the Holy Quran was about education.
		

			And education is the most important factor in achieving maximum intellectual potential, our brains,
our intelligence, just like our body needs exercise, and it needs intellectual stimulation to
prevent dementia and to prevent the loss of our intelligence and our thinking, but who things like
that? One of the reasons therefore an Allah Tala in the Holy Quran tells us representative Wilma,
when I increase my knowledge, one of the reasons why alcohol is haram because it takes away your
intellectual faculties to faculty of thinking, I have a friend in the legal field. And one day he
told me a very amazing thing. He told me he said he saw a very prominent, respected judge at the end
		

			of the year party. He was done. He was slurring his speech, he was talking nonsense. So suddenly I
realized what Allah has made him call haram, that a person who has intellect, he has lost his
intellect and part of our whole wellness. Part of our holistic wellness is to have intellectual well
being. The third thing that we are supposed to have is emotional well being lack of emotional well
wellness also lead to deteriorate deterioration of our health. Islamic text acknowledges
acknowledges the validity and validity of negative emotions and offer guidelines on how to deal with
them in a healthy way. Maybe a cream saucer have told us. The pediatrician also also had episodes
		

			where they were saying this there was emotional challenges, many times maybe extreme sources and
buried his daughter has a Jaina, the eldest daughter, he went in with a paper he cried. And when he
came out to the cover, he was smiling. So
		

			I was at another school and what is the reason for this? So when I went into the Tamarama, dua to
Allah, Oh Allah, my daughter, this daughter of mines, this eldest daughter of mines went through
tremendous struggle for the sake of Islam, who will now you forgive her, and I went into the copper
crying. And then while I was in a cover letter revealed to be that I have elevated the status of
your daughter, I came out smiling, let me get him so seldom Had this not only with regard to his
children, he went to see sad when I've been abused was one of the pillars of helping him source them
in Medina. He saw him on the last stages of his life, and maybe it was awesome crime, just have a
		

			ride with him. Let me get himself some head emotional challenges, but maybe a cream sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam always taught us how to deal now that's a different subject on his own, how to deal
with emotional challenges. But what I'm saying is part of holistic wellness is to have emotional
well being. And part of having emotional well being is to have a positive outlook in life. And the
dream Salah will ever Solomon said, what an amazing he said hoping for good and positivity is also
an act of worship.
		

			And what greater What greater example can you give with regard to be positive, that will be a dream
source and set be positive till the end of time. And that hadith of Nebia Kareem sauce from comes to
mind, either hearted Musa failure, Brazil phocoena phocoena utter failure Risa, if you hear that
trumpet of Kiama blowing, and you are planting a seed, don't say who's going to benefit from this
particular seat who's going to benefit from this plan, who's going to benefit from the three it is
Yarmouth, coin, plan, the three
		

			be positive till the day you die go into something that is positive. And lastly, you know, part of
you know our wholeness and complete holistic wellness, spiritual well being. The role of
spirituality is an essential part of both prevention and treatment of mental illness. There is a
systematic review of multiple studies that showed that increase level of spirituality Ibaadat and
rich religiosity correlated with better mental health. While of course it is beneficial, we never
say that it is intended to minimize minimize the other forms of treatment. This is part of the
treatment, that you have a Taluka Allah Allah related minute Hello, in the remembrance of Allah will
		

			help us find contentment. You can have everything else, you can have the best home, you can have the
best amount of wealth, you can have the best of cars, but it will not bring you contentment and
satisfaction. Allah has kept satisfaction is something else. Allah is our Creator. You cannot use
any gadget against the manufacturers you know way of dealing with it. Otherwise, you know, you take
a fault and you go against what the manufacturer or what what they have told you how to use it
you'll be able to use and you will be able to have maximum with regard to your phone or any other
things. Allah is our Creator. And as our treaty he's telling us, I have not kept your contentment
		

			and satisfaction in wealth. I have kept your contentment in the remembrance of Almighty Allah
subhanaw taala therefore to be a teamster, Allahu alayhi wa sallam used to say the coolness of my
eyes. That means my satisfaction licensor that he used to tell beloved, many times OB there'll be so
much difficulties we are encountering so many challenges are recognized
		

			or below give us contentment go and give the
		

			give the Assam, Bihar Krishna. So when we have these four wellness in our life, you know wellness
and our physical body wellness intellectually emotionally and spiritually. Then you will have the
holistic wellness which will inshallah will bode well for us and will grant us complete health both
physically and mentally. We Allah subhanaw taala given the topic of understanding has been mentioned
from the very beginning mental illness and mental health, depression is a reality. How do we deal
with it? I have given you certain ways melta Accept May Allah give us the topic of making profit?
		

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