Maryam Amir – Anxiety and fear of death heres comfort!

My mom told me that when she was younger, she had a friend whose

little sister was passing away, and in the hospital, her parents

were with her, and she asked them, Who are those beautiful people

that just walked in and her parents couldn't see anyone, and

then she said, they're holding the most beautiful white dress I've

ever seen. And then she passed away. Maybe she was seeing the

angels in the form of people to comfort her, bringing a garment

for her soul. Knowing that

death is real is terrifying for many of us, but also knowing that

there's more than we can see brings us comfort. I think one of

the reasons we are terrified a lot of times, I get this question a

lot, and I also went through my own journey where I was so

terrified of dying to the point that it would paralyze me from

living with hope in God. And I think that really comes from a

message that we often hear in our communities, where, in order to

encourage people to do good, there is this obsession on punishment,

and life is short and you're gonna die and you never know if you're

gonna be able to repent all true. But it's not balanced with God's

mercy and God's love, and like motivating people to do good for

his sake, out of joy, out of out of love, for that relationship.

And so for many people whose psychology doesn't work with

constant threats and fear and control, it just leaves many

people feeling completely paralyzed emotionally. Add that to

any sort of trauma you might be going through, anxiety,

depression, whatever you're going through on top of that. And how

can you live when you're so obsessed with the what, which is

dying instead of the WHO

that you're living for?

When you get to know who you're living for, when you get to know

as salam, the source of peace, the wadu, the source of love, el

Kerim, the generous,

the way that you live your life shifts. And I recommend reading

reflecting on the names of Allah, a book by Jina and Youssef, and

take one name of God a week and pray to him by that name. Make dua

to him by that name all week, so that you can really start to just

emotionally connect with God and start to trust him. Sometimes,

because of trust issues that we have, for whatever reason, we

don't know how to trust God. And sometimes those trust issues are

with God because we wonder, why has this happened in my life? Or

why isn't he answering this when you get to know who he is and

trust who he is in your life, then you can face knowing that whatever

amount of time and we pray, that God gives us long, healthy lives

of worship for his sake and benefiting others,

that it's for a reason, and also seek therapy and.