How Does Islam Tackle Loneliness

I've got a question here. Someone is saying,

I feel lonely and depressed and don't know

how to help myself.

How does Islam help with that?

So,

just to add on to what,

Mufti said,

when the underlying

cause

of your relationship

is not only blood,

but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as well, that

helps in a great way. Because ultimately you

know that we are together

not only because of blood, but because Allah

made us blood. And I have to look

after this person.

So and I have to keep with this

person, and I can't break my relationship. And

if it is broken, I will mend that

tie.

With regards to loneliness,

many people, many people send me messages saying,

I feel lonely. I feel like I'm within

my family,

but nobody understands me. I'm all alone. I

don't,

I don't feel like I have anyone in

my life.

And

there are 2 approaches. 1st and foremost,

repair your relationship with Allah

to remedy that loneliness. Why? Because when you

fill your heart with Allah,

then

you will not need and require and desperately

search and look for the companionships

companionship

of others. Why? Because you have the companionship

of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

And secondly,

look into your usage of social media

and how you are using it. Oftentimes,

we are not using it, we are abusing

it. And this is the underlying

cause in a lot of these

cases.

They are using social media

hours on end.

And what essentially you are doing now, social

media is not as social as it was

when it started.

You are now interacting

with a screen that suggests

certain content to you that you've been clicking

on, and I implore you to look at

your feeds. What do your feeds have? Do

they have your cousin, and your uncle, and

your aunt, and your friend, and your brother?

Most of the content that you are seeing

is suggested to you by an algorithm because

of what you clicked on. It has nothing

to do with social

interaction anymore.

So what you're doing is you are isolating

yourself and people around you are also isolating

themselves without realizing. You know sometimes I think

of the irony of it. You are sitting

in bed, your spouse is sitting in bed,

and instead of talking to each other, you

are sending each other reels on Instagram.

You are sending each but you're sitting next

to each other. Hey, did you check that

which I sent you?

Why why can't you put the phone down

and talk to each other, stay into her

eyes, you know.

Gaze into her eyes and smile at her.

You know sometimes we are guilty of that

which we say as well. So

we realize that it's a problem and you

need to invest more time in your relationships.

So sometimes just have

no phone time where we're gonna put phones

away, and we're just gonna talk to each

other, and we're gonna interact with each other.

And this really

helps remedy that isolation that you feel and

that loneliness that you feel. May

Allah grant us the ability

we don't feel

we don't feel