Muhammad West – I’m Hurting

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The speakers discuss the struggles of people with mental and emotional illness, including mental and emotional struggles. They stress the importance of avoiding bad things and managing one's struggles to avoid future struggles and struggles. The speakers also emphasize the importance of testing one's actions and emotions to determine if they harms others and emphasize the need for a deeper relationship with Allah Subhanaw taala to remove suffering and loss. They stress the importance of treating mental disorders and avoiding negative behavior to prevent future struggles and struggles.

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			I'll rely on a sheet on Jim's ruler and Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam
ala COVID Mursaleen Sade Nam Hammond one early he was a huge Marian, our beloved brothers and
sisters a Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh, the hamdulillah below me always and forever. In
every situation, we pray something last panel data. And we said I love repeating citations you will
have written to me Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam to spice up your family, his companions and all
those who follow you soon until the end of time, where scholars pantalla to bless us and to be easy
upon us to grant Shiva to those who are ill, or mercy on those who have passed away. I mean, when
		
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			hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, it is Friday the 17th of September 20 2100, I'm still recovering from a
bit of a throat infection. And as Pamela, last week, we released an old lecture on suicide in
recognition of well prevention of suicide today. And the feedback that was given many people in the
respondent, spotlight is so surprising we could so concerning that there's so many people that are
going through hardship that are struggling with you know, mental and emotional difficulties,
difficulties in their life, going through hardships, you know, really struggling and people that you
don't expect people that you see from the outside are smiling and happy. And if you imagine
		
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			everything is going well. But underneath the surface, there's a lot of pain. And and so today
inshallah we're going to talk about pain and how we manage that, and the trauma that is that is
going on internally. So today we're talking about
		
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			how do we manage the burden, when bad things happen, you know, hardships are inevitable in this
life. And it is a promise, in fact, from Allah Allah guarantees this world will be a world a life of
a hardship, because the purpose of life in this dunya is a test and a place of trials, so that we
can reach the ultimate destination of Jannah. And even the best of people, the base of creation was
pious of people, they went through extreme difficulties in this in this dunya. And so who of us can
say that we are free of any kind of difficulty or trauma and in fact, in the last couple of months
and years through this pandemic, so many of us have experienced death, immediate circles, loved ones
		
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			that have passed away, we have all many of us have been struggling with health, some of us are
recovering from, from COVID people are going through financial difficulties, and we are battling
with hardship and grief. And so Subhanallah it is it has become very real for many, many people to
go through difficulties. And so even though it is normal, when these beds, the feelings of sadness
and emptiness and loneliness, when these negative thoughts overpower us, and they prevent us from
living a productive life, they prevent us from, from from doing our responsibilities to Allah
subhanho wa Taala or to having meaningful relationships, then this negative feeling becomes more
		
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			than just a normal part of life. But it actually becomes a disease, a sickness, and something which
needs to be treated. And today we'll talk a little bit about mental and emotional illness. And what
is the view from an Islamic perspective? How we we manage it, and how do we come through it? But
before we talk about mental illness, we just remind ourselves, why is it that Allah subhanaw taala a
merciful Allah, a kind Allah and Allah who loves us more than our own parents? Why would Allah
subhanaw taala take our loved ones Why would inflict upon us a very difficult disease or take away
our livelihood? Why do bad things happen? When Allah has the power to take it away? Allah subhanaw
		
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			taala reminds us that part of life is to test State forces our iman and Allah says, And of mankind
are those who worship Allah or the Huffin. They worship him as on the edge. The Eman is, is
conditional. They only worship Allah when things go well when things are good in their life. And
Allah Subhana Allah says, if good befalls him, he is contented he's happy with Allah. But if
difficulty befalls him, he turns back on his face he turns away from Allah. So Allah subhanaw taala
wishes us and wants us to prove the sincerity of our iman to him in terms of no matter what Allah
subhanaw taala sins upon us whether its blessing, whether it is adversity, our relationship with
		
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			Allah does not change. Our commitment to him does not change our iman and other Wakil in him, does
not change that whatever happens in our life, Allah subhanaw taala is the constant and that is what
Allah Subhana Allah wishes for us. And remember this is all to prepare ourselves for an eternity of
happiness and eternity of peace and eternity of joy. And Jana in the afternoon. I mean, it is also
when bad things before us it is a reminder that perhaps, we are not on the path we are meant to be.
And so Allah subhanaw taala says, Whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your
hands of earnest because of a sin that you are doing. And then Allah says and He pardons much
		
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			meaning that when we do sin, most of the times most of the sins that we do Allah forgives. Allah
doesn't take you
		
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			retribution on us. But sometimes Allah subhanaw taala does send a calamity away, so that we may wake
up and remind us that there is something wrong that we're doing and we need to rectify that we are
harming the rights of somebody else, that we are not doing our duties as we should, to Allah our
data. And so it's a means by which Allah reminds us that things need to change. It is also a means
to remove sin that many of us before we reach Allah subhanaw taala. And this is part of His mercy,
you'll find people before they pass away, they go through a period of sickness, they go through some
trauma. Why? Because Allah subhanaw taala wants us to meet him when we are pure and clean of sin,
		
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			because on the death Kiama that is when things are very difficult. And so Allah He moves sins in
this dunya out of His mercy and His love for us. And we know that there'll be some said that trials
will continue difficulties will continue to befall the believing men and believing woman in Himself
in His children in his wealth, and those who meet Allah subhanaw taala sinless, and that is the
ultimate success that does it doesn't matter what happens in the dunya. But if we can stand before
Allah without any sin, and go to China directly without ever having hardships on the day of chiamo,
going to Jana Mala critic, and that is a successful person, and Allah subhanaw taala, once each and
		
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			every one of us to get to him without any sin, and so he will sin upon us, those connections in his
dunya. So that we meet without some, perhaps one of the most common or the most important reason,
and this is really, why Allah Subhanallah sins calamities and hardships, it is for us to become
closer to Allah Subhana Allah and Allah subhana, Allah says, and visually, we will make them taste
of the difficulties, the small difficulties prior to the big difficulties in Kiama, in order that
they may return back to Allah subhanaw taala. And so when many people ask, is this calamity Ebola,
that Allah is really punishing me to the punishment? Or is this a means that I come back to Allah is
		
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			the means of purification? What is this a hardship that I'm being put in? And the answer is how you
thought about the past. Rather, it's about how you how you respond to it in the present, that even
the sinner, even the person who is being punished for his sins, and he has this built up placed upon
him. And it's a means that he comes back to Allah subhanaw taala. And that wasn't Ebola, it was
rather a was either a mercy from Allah subhanaw taala. And it could be that someone who is very
pious, and Allah gifts, that pious person, with many, many blessings, and blessings, take him away
from Allah, and those blessings are actually not a blessing, but it's maybe seen as a calamity that
		
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			took you away from Allah. And so the real reason that Allah subhanaw taala wants us once from us to
take from hardship is to turn back to him and to have a deeper, more meaningful relationship to know
that Allah is the one that brings blessings and he takes blessings and he gives her life and health
and he takes it away, and he does so with mercy. And that when we turn to him, it is better for us.
And he will it will be a means that we are we attain success in the dunya and akhira. And success
isn't just meaning that we are happy and things are going well, success is having a profound
relationship with Allah subhanaw taala and it's in the nature of man and we know this, we all know
		
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			this, that we when do we turn to Allah, when things are difficult in our lives, when we bring a lot
going so well, that is when we are closer to Allah subhanaw taala. And so the ultimate objective of
hardship is for us to come back to him and to have a deeper relationship with him. And a point I'd
like to make here when people go through difficulty or Hamdulillah. And people have this either this
Eman you know, ingrained in them when they lose a loved one when they have some major calamity. And
you speak to them and they say, you know, I'm contented with Allah's decree or you know, enough
records to say, because the Frieda May Allah squadra, that whatever Allah has decreed, for me, I'm
		
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			contented. What this means is, some people imagine what this means is, I shouldn't feel sad if I
feel sad, that my loved one passed away if I feel sad that my marriage is falling apart or that I
lost my job, that I'm not being contented with Allah, feeling sad is normal. And in fact, it's
perhaps something you should do, you should feel sad, and you should feel negative in your heart
because of what is going through your your life. Are you sad, contented it means this has not
changed my relationship with Allah, I am still you know, deeply committed to Allah I am, I still
believe in him, I still love him and I still depend on him. But if this is what Allah subhanaw taala
		
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			has placed in my path, then I accept Allah subhanaw taala as decision, but inside I still feel I
still feel hurt. And you can still express your your sadness in in a manner which is which is
permissible. And you can even go to the extent where you try to remove this this. So if Allah
subhanaw taala has decreed May Allah protect that you are you know, you've been diagnosed with some
kind of cancer. It's a huge shock. Your life has changed profoundly. Yes, you say Alhamdulillah
Allah, we've placed this on me. I am contented with your your decision in this regard. I accept it.
But it doesn't mean that we sit down and we say well, I will
		
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			go for treatment, no part of accepting that decision is you do everything in your power, to come
away from that hardship, and to cure the disease and to remove your sadness. And so if you've lost a
loved one, for example, speaking about it and trying to remove the trauma, it does not mean that you
deny the, the decree of Allah, it is part of the process. But we do not say anything which displease
Allah, we don't, we don't lash out at Allah subhanaw taala. And it does not mean that we, we move
away from him, that is what contented means. When you say I'm pleased with Allah subhanaw taala. We
move on Inshallah, to talk a little bit about mental and emotional well being. And from an Islamic
		
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			perspective, a person, a human is made up of different dimensions or components, there is the
physical component, the body, there is the actual, the mind the intellectual dimension, that is the
facade or the olive, which is the heart and from an Islamic perspective, refers to the emotional
center, we know that the heart, you know, biologically speaking, or purely, scientifically speaking,
doesn't quite have any emotions, or the heart is a pump, that if you transplant one heart to another
heart, it doesn't change who you are from a personality perspective. But when we talk about the four
ad from the Quranic concept, it is the emotional center, the place that feels sadness, and
		
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			happiness. And so as a person, you have a center for your emotions that might be in the brain, but
you have this part of you, that is an emotional dimension. And then of course, we have the rule,
which is the spiritual dimension. And for you as a person, all these four areas must be healthy, for
you to be unhealthy person. And any one of these areas can become sick, your body can become sick,
you can have a physical disease, your arm can break. And if you're if the body is hurting, the type
person hurts, and you might have an intellectual of deficiency in your mind, you might have a
doubts, you might have confusions, that is a deficiency in the article, you have an emotional
		
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			sickness way, emotionally, you are battling with some kind of disease or spiritually, you're
battling with a disease. And if any one of these areas are sick, very these the person is sick. And
it's a mean it's a it's a reason for the person to look for a cure. We know that the province of
some says that, for every disease, Allah subhanaw taala sent a kill, it didn't only talk about the
Muslim is not only talking about physical diseases, it is also about spiritual diseases. It's also
about emotional and mental diseases, depressions and anxieties, part these are diseases where there
is a cure, and something which somewhere which you need to strive to look for a remedy to these
		
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			illnesses that is part of the Sunnah of Allah, it is how Allah created this world, as he put out
diseases, he put out the cure for those diseases, when we look at some of the more common emotional
or mental illnesses, and there are so many of them, but of the most common ones is, of course, which
many people and you know, the statistics are quite scary, that almost half of people are struggling
with some kind of was at some point in their life, that are struggling with some kind of mental or
emotional disorder, you have an anxiety disorder, we than the normal difficulties of life, the
normal stresses of life, I mean, Life is stressful, you have jobs to stress and kids stress,
		
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			financial stress and pressures. When these normal life pressures overtake you, and it prevents you
from living a productive and normal functioning life, it becomes a disease. And then of course,
there are disorders, mood disorders, where you feel, you know, extremely happy or extremely
depressed, you're unable to function because of your outlook in life and how you feel bipolar
disorder, many people are going through depression, many people are going through these kinds of
hardships, they are overcome overwhelmed with a negative feelings. And they can't live a productive
life post traumatic disorder, where you've stress disorder where you've been through a major
		
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			incident in your life, a traumatic incident, you know, an accident or some kind of abuse, and it
prevents you from moving forward, you're always going back to that negative moment in your life, you
know, someone said something or did something to you. And you can never move beyond that. When these
kinds of occurrences prevent you from living a normal life. It prevents you from being happy, it
prevents you from having meaningful relationships, it prevents you from even, you know, you know,
having a job or worshipping Allah subhanaw taala. This is not normal. And it's a disease, like
having a heart disease or cancer that needs to be treated, and it needs to be remedied. Now, all of
		
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			us go through some kind of anxiety or depression. And it's fun, like every Monday perhaps, is some
some form of depression when you have to wake up for work at eight o'clock. It's normal, it's part
of life. But now when is it normal? And when is it
		
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			abnormal? And if we look at, for example, some of the symptoms of anxiety, we just take anxiety, for
example. If you're frequently worrying, you're frequently in a state of panic, and you're constantly
obsessing about things out of your control. You are already trying to solve future problems.
		
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			and thinking about, you know, what about, you know, your kids in primary school, but you think you
really about when they go to university, you think about when they get married, you think about, you
know, issues that are not yet have not even occurred, but they're already bothering you and plaguing
your mind or keeping you up at night, when the stresses and we know what's kind of in inverted
commas No, everyone life is different, but they are normal stresses, things that no one can get away
from the normal pressures of life, when those normal pressures of life overwhelm you, and you're
unable to function, when that is not normal. And, you know, feeling that you need to that if you
		
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			can't control every aspect of your life, you know, you feel like you need to to survive, you need to
control every aspect. That is not that isn't normal, having social anxiety when you need to meet a
new person, when you get a phone call. And you know, you don't know who it is. And you know, it
causes you physical discomfort, you know, you're unable to sleep at night, because you're constantly
playing about things that's going to happen tomorrow or in the future things that it hasn't even
occurred, and they are keeping you up at night. And this is a continuous thing. This is not
something that happens, you know, once in a while, but this is your permanent mental state, then you
		
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			have an anxiety disorder. And there is no shame in having that anxiety disorder, says it's no shame
in someone saying, Look, I have diabetes, I have cancer, you the only shame is if you don't go out
and treat the disorder, and you don't go out and look for a remedy. And another disease, which is so
common, and most of us going through this and so many people on a weekly basis, I get these calls,
and people are feeling deeply depressed, in terms of where their life is. And they would say to you,
this is not how I imagined my life to end up. At this age. I didn't think this was going to happen
to me, I'm a good person, or why am I going through this? Depression Subhanallah is a pandemic, a
		
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			pandemic all on its own? And I mean, if you look at the symptoms of depression, how do I know
whether I'm just feeling down and feeling gloomy because of like, we all go through a normal downer
in our moods, versus it's a real disorder. If you feel constantly sad, or negative, you're
constantly feeling pessimistic about life, that there's very little in your life, that gives you
enjoyment. If you sit down now and you think, what am I looking forward to? What makes me happy?
What do I get excited about? What brings me peace and comfort? And if the answer is I can't, I can't
think of the thing I look forward to, I don't have anything in life that I enjoy. There's nothing
		
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			that brings me peace of mind, then that's a problem. No human can live like that. If you constantly
have a feeling of past trauma, guilt, you replay all these negative episodes in your life. This one
did that this one said this, and you think about it constantly. And think about the positive
opportunities of the future. You feel worthless, you feel alienated you feel no one loves you, you
feel unwanted, constantly. This is not normal. This is not how a functioning human the outlook that
you should have,
		
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			you know, a clear telltale sign of any kind of mental disorder, emotional disorder is not being able
to sleep having a trouble sleeping either not being you in bed, but you up, you know, your mind is
constantly working, it's not shutting down, or, or you are unable to get out of bed in the morning
because you know, life does feel so overpowering. Overwhelming. You have a chronic pain that has no
physical reason you're constantly sick. But this isn't there's no physical reason. Eating disorders
is part of mental illness. And so the psychologist say that if you we've listed a number of symptoms
now, but if you have four of these symptoms, and they sort of present with you on a continuous
		
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			basis, you know, you can't eat, you can't sleep, you have negative feelings, you are anxious about
the future. You have social anxiety. If you have four of these symptoms, and they're present with
you continuously, then this is a sign that you have a mental disorder. And again, there's no shame
in that today. That's one of the biggest sadness and especially the Muslim community. We have looked
down as mental disorder, emotional illness, as a spiritual deficiency and that is completely haram.
That is completely wrong. In fact, that just as the body can get sick, the mind can get sick, the
the roof can get sick. It is sad that we've taken an illness and made it something a lack of Eman
		
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			and when we we've done a number of lectures where the Gambia of Allah subhanaw taala. Last week we
even mentioned that Nabil Salam going through a mental ordeal where he contemplated suicide
Subhanallah and that's gonna be so solid. And we if you look at the Quran, the kind of hardship and
trauma and sadness that the MBR went through, it didn't mean that when they were paying those tests
that they were happy, they broke down, they cried. They were in a type of depression, but it did not
prevent them from doing the functions and it of course did not alter the relationship
		
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			But Allah, so there was nothing wrong spiritually, but the pain was real. And so the first I think
step in in terms of talking about the remedies and cures, is to recognize that having an emotional
sickness, there's no shame in that, just as much as there's no shame in having a heart disease or
having a diabetes, it's part of who you are. And it is the disease that Allah, Allah has given you
as a test. And so why why do I have it? You might also why do I have this disease? Well, most mental
illness, unfortunately, it's not as well understood as physical illness. But what we do know is you
might have a family history of mental illness. Now you look at the people in your family. And if you
		
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			see that, look, parents or siblings or other members of the family struggled with it with a type of
mental disorder. And you also have it in these days you answer that it is, it is a family. Well, you
know, you know, some people have heart problems, and they have diabetes problems, it might be that
mental illness is your family's, your family's tastes from a loss, while your personality might just
be geared into be open, you know, to have a mental illness, low self esteem, paranoia, these this,
we have in our mental makeup, that what we call the negative bias. And what that means is, is that
psychologist or benching, that we give a lot more emphasis to negative comments or negative thoughts
		
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			or negative news than positive things in spite of, of how we survived as a species, that, you know,
people will live a happy go lucky life, and they you know, live, you know, the everything is, you
know, hunky dory, those kinds of people don't really survive, they're not going to survive the, the
lion method eats them, because they're not cautious. Whereas the people that are very cautious, they
are the ones that survive, because they're always thinking about the negative things. Now. And to
give you an example, if I told you, you know, 10 of your friends sent you a message, nine of that
was positive messages, they you know, they gave you good news, but this one that gave you bad news,
		
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			and I asked you, which one are you thinking about? Or is it normal for you to think about and obsess
about the one that gave you bad news, because we are geared to negativity, our minds are set up that
we give a lot more focus on negative aspects. And so some people, their minds are so biased towards
the negative, that they can't think of anything positive, all they think about is the negative and
the good things in their life, the fact that they're healthy, the fact that they have financial
security, that they have kids in relationships that love them, those things can't get through the
negative cloud that is overpowering them. And it's just how the mind is set up. It might be that
		
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			there's a traumatic event in your life that you can't get through. You know, you might be in an
environment that breeds you negative, you might have bad relationships, there might be people in
your life that bring you down, in particular, a job that puts you at the stress. And obviously, if
it's an environmental stressor, the answer is to remove yourself from that. And of course, it could
just be, as we say, an illness that has brought you to this. So how do we remedy this, and as I
said, this is a disease of narcissism tells you that every disease has a cure. And if a cure is
applied to the disease, whenever something is if you take the cure for the disease, it is a relief.
		
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			It will take away your disease, that if you search for the cure, and you find the cure, it will kill
you. And so, from a dunya perspective, if you go through depression and anxiety, you know, you need
like you go to a doctor for anything else you need to go seek a professional to assist you. And part
of the part of the journey. I mean, if we talk about self medication, the most important part is to
fight those negative thoughts when you're alone. And your anxiety and your depression overwhelms
you, your sadness overwhelmed your grief that you've lost, someone overwhelms you. It is to try your
best to think of positive thoughts. Think about that person is in Jannah. Think about the good
		
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			things in your life. Think about how whatever, if you're thinking about future problems, think about
how Allah subhanaw taala is watching and caring and protecting us try your best to have healthy
sleeping habits. One of the things that you know, people that have mental disorder, they feel it
paralyzes they, and when they become paralyzed, unable to function, then the lack of productivity
makes them feel even more useless, you know, they feel worthless. And so part of feeling positive
about yourself is to achieve something, sign up for a class, take up gardening, take up something in
your life, that is low stress, but you can achieve something that you can see at the end of the
		
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			week. I've progressed in this area, I'm doing well. And so small, achievable goals really help you
feel productive, you know, the perhaps the best therapy and if you look at even even the provision
way of doing it, is to speak to someone, the answer to negative thoughts is really to let it out and
to express it. And you know, we the bad cycle of mental illness is that you want to go into an
isolation you want to
		
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			If you want to isolate yourself, when really the point of the cure is to reach out to the people
that love you and care about you or to go to a professional, and to speak about what you're feeling,
you're entitled to feel the way you feel there's nothing wrong with feeling that way. As we said,
then I've even said that the heart is sad, you can express that sadness. But to bottle it up all the
time, or to live it out in an in a destructive way. That's not healthy.
		
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			Physical Activity and making sure your body is healthy, will help you have a purpose to your life.
Look forward to something, have something optimistic in your life, have something that brings you
joy and contentment, let that always be the end. If you've nothing like that, then it's important to
to bring something optimistic in your life. In the process, I'm also talks about this when he says
about comfort food, he says tobyhanna which is a kind of a porridge with sweet kind of Polish,
brings comfort to the sick, and it lessens the grief but you know, there is this thing of soul food,
that maybe sometimes you just need to, to have a relaxing environment, you need to you know, get
		
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			away, maybe even on a holiday these kinds of things to clear your mind to assist you in moving
forward. From a spiritual aspect. Of course, everything goes back to Allah subhanaw taala. And
besides, so you need to take the dunya methods or the medical ways to kill you. At the same time we
turned to Allah subhanaw taala for assistance, and we turned to him forth for our cues. And so Allah
Subhan Allah says in the Quran, when he speaks about Nabhi Yaqoob when he lost no use of maybe he
was going through immense trauma, and he was going he was still you know, on the inside, he was
broken. Last is the love of his life, his son, you know the apple of his eye. And you know, he never
		
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			ever this is what's amazing of this is in the context of it. He says to his family members that I
don't burden you with I don't come and I'm open I've been an I'm a downer and I complain to you, I
don't ever complain to any of you. And I don't make my problems your pro I don't take my negativity
out on you as my punching bag. I'm still your dad, I still say to his sons, I'm still vie for you. I
still give you guidance, I'm still gonna be but when I'm alone with my thoughts, he says in the
magical Buffy wasn't it and Allah, but when I can take my sadness and my grief and my sorrow, and I
complain of it to Allah, Allah may Allah marathon and I know of Allah, what you don't know that
		
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			every single time I go through this, this depression, I go to Allah and I speak to him, and I tell
him how I feel. And I asked him for his assistance and his guidance. And really, this is what we
need to do. That part of our remedy is to turn to Allah and to speak to him as we speak to others to
speak to him. And we don't take our trauma out on others. Yes, we can speak to others, but we don't
lash out and use them as a punching bag. We don't use them as a means, you know, as the saying goes
hurt people hurt people. So this is what nobody will be saying. I don't bring my misery on you.
Rather I take you to Allah subhanaw taala and I do my best to hold it together. Part of also, as we
		
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			said, fighting the negative thoughts. Allah says in the Quran, Li Kala, so Allah malefactor come?
What are the for hope? Allah says that whatever has been decreed for you has already been decreed,
so that you don't feel immense the speed about the bad things in your life, Allah subhanaw taala is
in control. And so don't be overwhelmed by the stress and the negativity of life. Don't be overly
negative, it is all in the hands of Allah. And so again, back to the vehicle, I feel it's Pamela to
lose you not to not to lose a child that is dead that said, but to not to know where your child is a
lost child. I can't imagine a more difficult grief for someone to go through that. But he never ever
		
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			gave up hope that I can I can find him. And I think this is very important. No matter how bad your
depression is, how bad your anxiety is, how bad your diseases, whatever is going through your life
and Allah make it easy. Everyone's going through difficult challenges. Never give up hope that I can
come out of this cycle of sadness. And so Nabil COVID says to his sons, yeah, boo, boo Fatah has
also made use of what he or my sons continue looking for us. Now this was like 30 years often we
used to go continue don't give up the search for him and his brother, or whatever they are so
mineral law, and don't ever despair and give up hope in Allah's relief. Don't give up hope that
		
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			Allah will alleviate your problem. Allah will fix your marriage. Allah will fix your health, Allah
will fix your depression. Allah will give you wealth don't ever give up hope in Allah that is what
telecom media Allah, you will make tomorrow better than today. So he's saying don't ever give up
hope in Allah in Nahu la la, la la velkommen caffeine, the only people that don't think positively
of Allah are those people were to disagree with. They remember to deny Allah's Mercy is the biggest
kind of denial because Allah subhanaw taala is our man. So in
		
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			the number of do acid we've added in the slides along with all of them, that one can recite in times
of grief.
		
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			And you mercy, in times of grief and in difficulty, and one of the two hours Salama, the wife
wouldn't be so much she lost her husband, then a businessman said to her, there is no Muslim who is
afflicted with a calamity going through hardship. And they say in that ally you are in your own, oh
Allah fatally from You, I come into you is my return. I belong to you and to use my return. And then
you say to Allah, Ya Allah, reward me in this calamity or Allah give me any award for my patients in
this calamity and compensate me with something better than that and whatever is been taken from me,
whether it is physical, emotional, whatever, I've lost you or give me better than Allah subhanaw
		
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			taala will give you a better and he will compensate you for that. May Allah subhanaw taala make it
easy for everyone going through hardships. Allah grants you out to those who are ill Allah grant
relief to those who are struggling. And Allah grant Jonathan, for those who have passed away I mean,
circulator was ALLAH Sydenham Han Manuel Islam was said he would have never been out. I mean, I
still don't want to come on.