Musleh Khan – Quranic Reflections #04 One Verse about Mental Health
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The importance of understanding mental health and the need to be around people to create an outlet for unloading emotions is emphasized in the Bible. The focus should be on helping people to unload their emotions and finding one way to live a life that is consistent with their values. Visitors are encouraged to use the Internet to guide individuals through their struggles and empower them to take control of their emotions. The importance of reenergizing one's life and finding a way to live a life that is consistent with their values is emphasized. Visitors are encouraged to attend events to receive advice and guidance.AI: Transcript ©
Okay.
Okay.
So brothers and sisters, as you can see
on your screen, we are class number 4.
Let me get to today's
slide. Let's go to
today's verse, and it is an absolutely
fantastic
verse all about
mental health.
This is the verse that you want to
go to every single time you are struggling
with mental health anything,
Insha'Allah.
This is the verse you want to go
to be uthnila.
Let me just see.
That's a little
strange.
I don't see it here.
Moon, can we pause this for a quick
moment? Let me, just pull up the correct
slide. So students, bear with me here.
In the meantime, you can take a look
at
all of the other verses that we've been
looking at. So I'll keep I'll keep it
right here, actually.
Moon?
Yes,
Yeah. Tahmid, if you can just pause the
video. Let me, pull up the correct slide
for everyone, please. Sure.
Yeah.
I don't understand why it wouldn't be here.
One second. One seconds.
Why isn't it here?
Yes.
You know where it is?
It's on the IAT computer.
That's why I don't see it here.
So,
Tahmid, bear with me. Okay?
No problem, Shay. I'm here. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
Just give me Surat
I'll just pull up the actual verse. I
don't need everything. I just need the verse
alone.
Okay.
So I just grab it.
What's that? You'll just have to share your
screen from your computer then. No. No. I'm
going to,
I'm going to pull the whole thing up.
Oh, okay. Okay. Got you. Like, I'm just
gonna copy and paste it right now for
everybody. So
copy.
Wow. This is definitely a first.
Okay.
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This is a first people. This is a
first. I'm literally sweating buckets here.
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Okay, Tech. Maybe you can
get us back online here,
and,
hopefully, everybody will see the screen.
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Okay.
And I apologize
for that, guys. So I have the verses
here. So let me
me pull all of that up for you
right now.
So what I did instead is and that's
the good thing about,
you know, having access to everything online,
is that we can simply
grab it
and
have it here so that all of you
are able to see that
So
let me, pull this up.
Okay.
One second, Tahmid.
Sorry about that, guys.
Technik, can you pause it again?
Yeah. No problems.
You gotta we have to remove this PowerPoint
from here, and I have to reupload the
other one.
Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Sorry.
So let me do that right now. Is
there students online?
Yeah. There's some people here.
God. This is gonna be so entertaining.
Yes. Salaam.
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Just make sure I saved everything properly.
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let me go
upload.
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You should see
should see it coming up there.
Yeah. Okay.
Let me go to let me just make
sure it's the right one that it pulled
up here, and it didn't do something else.
See, that doesn't make sense. I didn't pull
this one up.
Wrong one.
Do you wanna just share your screen and
then do it from there from your computer?
Let's try this one more time. Is there
something that you have to do on your
end for everybody to see this?
Because right now, it's showing that you're processing
the first slides, not the second set.
These are the only ones I see over
here. Okay. Okay. How about this one? Do
you see this?
No. It's still 15.
This is not the one. It has to
be
16 slides, and it's number 16.
What I would say is you have the
PowerPoint open on your desktop?
Let me see here. Yeah. I can
I do have it?
Where is it?
Hold on. Hold on.
It's on my USB. So I have it
here, and it's saved. So I just wanna
yeah. So I have it open on my
screen now. Okay. So I would say just
share your screen.
Okay.
K. Let's just do that then. Let me,
go to you. Okay. So we have to
remove that
and share screen.
Okay.
You see it there now?
Yeah. I see it.
Okay.
It should look you should see the Arabic.
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Hide this.
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K. Is there a way that I can
type as I'm sharing? Yeah. Yeah. You can
you can do that.
Look at that. It just it suddenly showed
up here.
Okay. Let's go for it. Let's bring everybody
back. Yep. Go ahead.
Okay.
Sorry about that, guys.
We are good. We are set to go.
So let's get right into it. I apologize
for that.
This is the verse that I wanted,
to share with you. This is the most
I would think one of the most important
and profound
verses about mental health in the entire Quran,
insha'Allah.
Let's get right to it.
This verse is at the end of Surat
Al
Hijr.
Allah tells us,
The translation,
We certainly know that your heart is truly
distressed by what they say,
So glorify the praises of your Lord
and be of one of those who always
pray
and worship your master.
Worship your Lord until the inevitable comes your
way. Now for you to really understand this
verse, there's a couple things we have to
talk about. Number 1,
this is a Meke verse,
which means it was revealed
pre Hijra,
and it was revealed in Mecca. In this
case here, it was revealed in Mecca.
And this is a set of verses that
was given to the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam
at a time where he felt lost and
he felt hopeless.
He felt that he couldn't fulfill the task
of being a prophet.
The pressure
of Mecca and the Quraysh and the government
of Quraysh
was so overwhelming that he didn't know what
else to do. And there was a point
in him that felt like maybe I'm not
the right person for this job.
Maybe I'm not capable of fulfilling the responsibility
of being a prophet.
Maybe
something, a tactic or approach that I'm using
is completely wrong.
Maybe I need to change my approach, and
he starts to lose hope in himself.
That's our first benefit.
So for those of you
that are taking notes,
on this verse, here's the first thing that
I will tell you.
Prophet alaihis salatu wasalam also went through his
own mental health struggles.
This verse proves it to all of us
Look at the start of the verse Allah
says
We certainly
know. Take a look at this, We certainly
know. Who is We?
Allah
But Allah
one tafsir of this ayah is that we
is also referring to
the angels. So we, meaning Allah, and the
angels that he sent down to protect you.
We all know and we are fully well
aware.
Now what's the point of doing that?
2nd point.
The first thing that Allah does for the
Prophet
is he gives him reassurance that he's not
alone.
He's not alone.
So the first thing, the first step
in trying to understand
mental health
in any form,
the first step
in figuring out what the struggle is, where
it's coming from,
is you need to be around people.
You need to hear that from someone else.
So you need to talk to someone.
That's really difficult
when you're struggling with mental health.
When you're struggling with depression,
when you're struggling with anxiety,
when you're just overwhelmed, when you're stressed out,
when you're feeling alone, despite
their people around you, there's family there. There's
you know, you have your kids, you have
your spouse,
you have your siblings, you have your parents.
There's family everywhere, but you still feel alone.
The first thing
that Allah reassures his prophet
is that he is not alone,
that we are here to support him.
This is more
towards the community,
towards the Masajid, towards the Muslims in general,
no matter at what capacity.
If you're in an institute, if you're in
a school, if you're in a masjid, this
in the start of this a is more
towards them because why? The onus is on
us.
We are the ones that have to be
there to
have or if at least create
an avenue or an outlet
for people to come, for people to unload,
for people to see an expert, somebody who
specializes.
I'm, for 1, not that person,
but I can I do what I can?
But for these people to come and see
somebody
that they can trust, that is an expert
in this area, that understands at least some
of these issues and where they,
come from and be able to carry them
on that journey of healing.
We get all of that from the start
of this ayah. Let's get deep. Now that's
the intro. And it's a fantastic intro. It
teaches the prophet It reminds him,
you were never alone. You were never abandoned.
We were always here.
We were always here.
Now Allah narrows down
what he means when he says we're always
Now he's going to narrow down that conversation.
Take a look at the screen.
Pause.
We certainly know that your heart
is truly
distressed.
So
comes from the word,
and that means
somebody who is feeling restrained,
tightened.
You know, when you're cornered, when you're pushed
to a corner, that's called Yildir.
When you're running out of time, Yildir walked
like you're taking so much of my time.
Oh, I don't have any more. We're running
out of time.
Yildir is like he's reached to a point,
the prophet
where his heart is feeling so overwhelmed
that he doesn't know if he has what
it takes. He doesn't know he has any
more energy,
any more focus. There's he doesn't even know
if there's any more emotion left in him.
That's really amazing
that Allah narrows this down. And look, yaduqos
sadr
Allah says that your chest has been tightened,
but in the ayah, it's focused when here
the chest is the heart itself.
So Allah is saying, I know what you're
feeling inside your heart.
So what what does this mean in terms
of us using this ayah as healing?
What this means
is if you're sitting with somebody,
like, very often when somebody comes to my
office about any mental health issue,
one of the first things I'll do with
them is I will sit and just listen
and let they take let them take the
time to just unload it all. Just unload
it all. Say whatever comes to your mind.
Talk about how many people have hurt you,
all the problems you've went through, your entire
story.
Cry it all out. Just unload.
And sometimes that takes more than one session.
Sometimes it's 3 4 sessions where I'm literally
just sitting there listening,
and all I can say is, Wa alaikum
Assalam. Thank you.
That's end of it. That's all my input
can be.
What this does is that it gives the
opportunity for that person
to be able to unload some of the
stress and problems of their heart and not
just throw it in thin air, but to
steer it towards
a listener.
In my office, it's me.
But the Prophet
he's in the most grand offices ever. He
is in the best place, the one listener,
Allah
So the way to use this
is that you don't just say to someone
that I'm here and I understand what you're
feeling and so on. You have got to
be a partner with them
and go and take that journey with them.
You're not jumping in the stress and holding
side by side and say, hey. Let's just
jump through the problem together. No. You're trying
to be the one
to guide them and help them navigate through
that stress. I've said this many times, right,
that
Islam is not a religion
that you use as, like, a magic potion.
You don't just use it as, like, Tylenol
or Advil.
You know, when you have a problem, you
take a medicine, and it goes away.
That's not how Islam works.
Islam instead gives us the tools. Like, sometimes
that might may happen. You'll have moments where
you'll make a dua and, masha'Allah, you know,
whatever you asked for, it happened.
But for the most part,
you will pray and practice this deen,
and the problems will still come.
Everybody will still struggle. You'll always have problems.
Like, this whole world is just one big
problem.
And no matter what you do, you're always
going to go through from one hardship. As
soon as it's done, another hardship is started.
And sometimes before that hardship is done, another
one has already started. So now you're dealing
with multiple hardships at the same time.
Islam
gives you the tools
to navigate through the hardship.
It gives you the tools to encourage you,
to keep you strong,
to strengthen you,
to give you the focus, the willpower,
the emotional strength, everything,
the mental strength
to get you through the problem.
Now, do you see
what the AI is focused on?
When
Allah narrows it down that we understand exactly
what you're going through in your heart and
how you feel. What do you think the
list of the person with the
going through the struggle? What do you think
they're thinking at that point?
They're not alone.
Problem 1 of feeling alone cured.
In the intro of this. It's cured.
You just gave reassurance and you narrowed it
down by listening, having letting them unload their
heart. And once that's done, you understand.
I know certainly we know that your heart
is truly that Allah number 3 Allah highlights.
What is it the problem that's happening in
his heart? The Prophet says
that your heart is distressed
like it's going through a lot. It's not
sleeping at all.
You know, there's people.
It's very normal
for people to
go to bed. Their body is tired, but
their brain and their hearts and their minds
and their emotions.
It's just on a 24
hour cycle. It never sleeps.
And so the prophet
is being, like, reminded here that not only
do we know what's in your heart, but
I know about the thing that's making you
feel this way.
So what are you telling when the person's
unloading this?
The person is going through the struggle and
they're telling you this and you're responding with
very specific detail.
What are you saying to them?
You're a great listener.
You know, one of the worst mistakes any
counselor ever
that can ever do is they talk more
than they listen. That's the first
counseling
one on one mistake
is when you're sitting there and you and
you know, and if you find yourself that
you'll be like, oh, you know, when I
grew up, this is the same thing it
happened to when I was younger, when I.
Oh, yeah, I know what you went through
because I went through.
They're not there to listen to your story.
They're there to unload theirs so you can
listen to their story. That's what they're there
for.
So
the the next point is
this word. Everybody see
that?
Okay. It probably shows up somewhere around here
for you. See that last word right there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What by what they
say.
Okay. And by what they say.
Okay.
You should see,
you should
see the translation.
I hope that you guys are seeing the
translation there. Takami, can you confirm that the
translation is showing up on screen? Because I
don't see it. I see it on my
screen. I don't see it on yours.
I don't see a translation.
Okay. Is there a way we can
okay. Do you see it there now? I
see that. Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
That's very strange, guys. But anyhow
okay. All kinds of
computer technical issues happening today. Right?
So
believe it or not,
I have a blank screen in front of
my face, but I see the translation on
your screen. So let's just leave it at
that. Okay?
So we certainly know that your heart is
truly distressed by what they say. So everybody
see here it's implore by what they say.
Now what's happening here?
Now,
Allah is giving reassurance
that he understands
not what they are doing to the Prophet
but what they are saying.
What matters more? Actions or words?
We say it all the time.
You know, actions are tough, but words kill.
Words leave a permanent effect on people.
You know, actions, we can grow out of
it. We can remember those actions. We can
give context to them. We can put, you
know, some sort of understanding behind it. And
InshaAllah, you know, it's a little bit easier
to overcome. It's a little bit easier for
somebody who's done something wrong or done something
bad, and you see them again and, you
know, the opportunity is there to at least
talk it out or apologize or at least
just ignore or put it behind you. You
don't visually see or experience the action again.
But words,
even if
somebody comes back to you, that's hurt you
And they apologize and they say, look, you
know, I didn't mean what I said. I
know it hurts you, but I'm sorry.
Even then
you're not gonna forget what they said.
Now imagine
there's no apology.
There's no explanation.
Just you heard words
and that's it. You're stuck with them.
Allah says, I know what they're saying about
you. Prophet alaihis salatu wasalam is called every
name in the book.
Some of it is mentioned in the Quran.
Majnoon,
Sahir,
Khazab,
you know, crazy
magician.
Like you're you're literally a magician causing some
sort of spell on these people.
Or you're just a blatant liar.
All of these names
are being called to him
from people he grew up with,
his family, his neighbors,
friends,
maybe, you know, kids he played with growing
up.
These are the people that turned against him.
They turned right against him. This is like
there's even leaders of Mecca
who were
friends with his family, with Abdul Mutaleb, his
grandfather
and his uncles, they were friends.
And they're like, you know, what are you
saying?
You know, your family wasn't like this. You're
bringing this honor to them.
So Allah gives them reassurance.
I know what you're what you're what you're
hearing, and I know what they're saying.
Now, students,
it's time for the cure. Look at the
cure.
So glorify the praises of your master. That's
number 1.
Number 1, glorify the praises of your master.
Number 2, and be of those who always
pray.
Be of those who are always praying who
are always in sajdah. That's number 2.
Warabudurabbek.
And number 3, worship your Master,
worship your Lord,
until
the end
comes your way.
So what is the end?
Let's let's take a look at all of
this 1 by 1. So three things. Number
1,
So glorify
the praises of your Lord. Fasabih bihamdi
rabbik.
Fasabih comes from the word tasbih. We all
know what tasbih is.
How are you gonna tell somebody who went
through
mental health struggles?
You're gonna say, listen.
We can fix this.
Here's what you need to do. Number 1,
make tasbir.
First of all, tasbir
is not necessarily the same as a dhikr.
It's a type of dhikr, but it's more
specific.
Tasbir
is when you're
praising
Allah and you're glorifying
Allah by raising His status in your life.
So you're praising Allah by saying things like,
SubhanAllah.
There is no might
or strength except the strength of Allah
There's no strength and authority except that of
Allah
You're constantly
praising and glorifying Allah, but you're doing it
in a way to raise His status and
authority in your life.
You're focused just on that kind of Alqar
that's called Tasbih.
So Allah says fasabbe
Why do you tell
somebody who's going through mental health? This is
just for me, SubhanAllah, it's so amazing.
So amazing. SubhanAllah.
Why do you tell someone
who's struggling with mental health
to make tasbir and not make zikr?
Because if you make zikr,
it's more generic, and it could be very
personal. Yeah. You could just be, like,
doing
that only help you that that's that you're
hoping could attack the problem,
that hope it could just cure you, and
that's it, and make it go away. Well,
that may be true.
That may happen.
But
you put yourself
just as vulnerable
for the mental health to come back and
be a struggle again. Why?
Tasbeah
focuses on
that there is always
a deity
that is in control
that has authority.
No matter
how much
the people
or the things in your life
that you thought are powerful and have authority
and control you,
the fact that you made this be your
reminder yourself, wait a minute.
They don't control me.
You know, that group,
you know, that person,
that leader,
that king, that queen, that president, that
these people don't control me.
Actually, it's a lot that's in control.
You know
where that's where where you should feel, where
you should be at this moment. This moment
of the adversity, you know, we should do.
She just take it like, a
big emotional breath and just Now
you don't have to depend
on anyone.
You depend only on Allah.
See how beautiful that is? It's so
reassuring. Like, it's so amazing
when people let you down.
This ayah is bringing you back Stop depending
on them. Just depend on me
Those people could be anybody.
Those people could be the people you thought
would never hurt you, like your family.
And they end up being and we all
we all know this. Right? Like, it's one
thing when strangers hurt you, but it stings
a 100 times more when it's coming from
family.
So when family hurts you,
then all of a sudden you're like, man,
I don't know how I'm gonna get over
this. And then you remind yourself
when you've been taught or you or you
thought your entire life that I wouldn't be
able to survive or do anything
without my family.
I wouldn't be able to do anything without
them. Wait a minute.
I didn't have to depend on them. It's
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that I depend on
anyway.
When leaders abandon us.
So it's happened now, right? With in the
midst of this Palestinian issue,
right? Leadership pretty much around the world.
Just literally
left us and abandoned us. It's done.
And they've literally, you know, they've made promises.
But when it came time to fulfill or
at least have those voices speak for us,
Like they turned away from all of us.
And then this a reminds us, wait a
minute.
I didn't depend on you.
I work with you. I communicate with you.
We try to come to an understanding and
help one another and do the right thing.
Stand up for justice. Stand up for a
good cause.
But ultimately,
my dependence as a believer
is I depend only on my creator. Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala, I don't depend on anyone else.
So if you feel
that supporting me
is not something you're willing to do,
the believers
says, Khair
Masa, I'm like, okay, you want to go?
Go.
Allah takes care of me. It wasn't you.
Next
point. How what kind of does Allah want
from us?
When you're going through this mental health struggle,
Allah wants
for Sabih Bihammed and
praise your master
Bihammed.
So when you're making tasbih not subhanAllah,
how could this happen to me? La ilaha
illa. What is my life come? No, no,
no, no, no.
Allah wants you to praise Him, make tasbih
of him,
but keep it positive, like keep it real.
Keep it positive.
Hamd. Hamd is always used
to praise and thank and show gratitude to
Allah.
Can you imagine
you're telling somebody who's at their lowest? Listen,
just be grateful and just say Alhamdulillah.
You know, this
reminds me of the famous brother Ali Banat,
who
died with cancer, famous Australian brother.
His story went viral when he was diagnosed
with cancer.
And a few years ago, he passed away.
And actually, he made a video. It's on
YouTube,
of a video of his passing.
So he he knew he was going to
pass away. And so he made a video
that telling the world that
and his video starts off with
Alhamdulillah,
I have passed away.
And, you know, to to be in that
position
to actually embrace
your limited time and embrace your end
with hope and gratitude and Alhamdulillah
Like that's everything. That's what we all live
for. We all live for that moment when
we're about to pass away,
that we will pass away with alhamd.
But that's not the conversation you wanna have
here with somebody going through mental health struggles.
Right?
This kind of hamd here is focused strictly
on
look, you might be feeling you're at your
lowest,
but say alhamdulillah
for everything you still have.
Like, look at the things you still have
in your life.
So regardless of what the mental health struggle
is,
what Allah is helping us realize is that
you still have so much good in your
life.
You still have so many blessings. This reminds
me of the famous statement of Hassan al
Basri
A man came to him and said, Yeah,
Hassan, make dua for me that Allah increases
me and gives me more risk.
So Hassan al Basri, being the
scholar,
he says to the man, okay. He says,
look. I'll make dua for you, but give
me your arm. The man looks at him.
He's like, what are you talking about? I
need my arm. So, okay. Fine. Give me
your head.
This is crazy. I need my head. He
says, okay. Well, you gotta give me something.
Give me one leg.
The man is like, are you crazy? Like,
what are you talking about? I need these
things. I can't live without them. And that's
when Hassan Abbasid says, like, who is the
real foolish one here?
You have so many blessings already.
At least if you want Allah to give
you more, start off by thanking Him, show
gratitude for what you have, and then ask
for Allah what you want. You don't need
me to do that. And that's when the
man understood.
It's like I got the point. So show
gratitude. It's more than just being like
superficial
or dishonest with yourself. No, you're being very
real and very honest with yourself.
It's just that life and material things and,
you know,
shawhat and all of these things that are
surrounding
us on a daily basis were consumed by
it. It's not really your fault. It's just
that that's the world and the culture.
24 hours a day, you're consumed and your
attention is on so many other things. You
forget the most obvious. You'll lose sight of
what you see in the mirror and being
grateful for that.
You'll lose sight of the fact that, my
gosh, both of my eyes, they work.
My voice, it actually projects a sound.
You know, I I I can actually talk
to people. I can actually interact. I'm healthy.
I woke up today.
Like, you lose sight of those things because
of all the other distractions that were consumed
by.
So that's why you make this beer.
It's to kinda reenergize
and and bring them back to reality. Then
it continues.
You can't just talk the talk. You gotta
walk the walk. So the person with mental
health, you'll be saying to them, look, man,
I know you lost your family.
I know they turned their back on you.
But look, you still have the community.
We're still I'm still here.
Now let's go. Let's just show gratitude to
Allah. It's gonna be Zohar time just it's
gonna be isha time when it's not. Fajr
time, make up new start. That's
You know what's amazing about this verse? The
verse
focuses
on
Allah didn't say
Don't be of the people who pray.
Allah focused on Sajda.
Why?
Yeah. You might be talking to somebody and
unloading your problems to them. When are we
closest to Allah?
We're closest to Allah in
Sujood.
So Allah is calling us to do what
when he says
be amongst those
who are in Sajda.
What what is Allah indirectly
asking us to do here?
He's asking us to talk to him.
You have nobody to talk to? No family?
No friends? No problem.
Allah is always there. Is this just just
talk to me. Just turn to me.
So, Hanulah, it's amazing.
This verse
will always
be relevant.
I mean, the entire Koran is relevant,
but there are certain
verses that
you'll relate and connect to them regardless
where you are, who you are, how much
knowledge you have or don't, your status, your
background, the time in which you live, the
context,
all of that
is irrelevant.
There are certain verses that will talk to
you
no matter where you are or who you
are. This is one of those verses.
Allah is just like people ignore you. People
are not responding to your text. People are
not answering your calls.
People are not returning them.
Don't worry. Just be in sajda, and I'm
right there.
The closest
I'll ever be to you.
Now Allah doesn't want you here's the here's
the mistake that a lot of people make
with mental health is that they focus just
on the problem and walk away. Problem
solved,
That
approach creates another problem now.
Why?
Because
this is addressing now it's gonna deal with
those who use Islam as a Band Aid
for their issues.
You cannot Islam won't work like that. It'll
always be temporary.
It'll always come with an expiry date because,
again, like, how we started this conversation that
Islam is not
like a pill that you use or a
tablet you use. You get cured, and then
you'll never get sick again.
You'll get sick again and again and
again. Then eventually,
what do you end up doing?
You end up starting changing your lifestyle.
Like you'll have to start looking at your
diet. You have to incorporate some exercises.
You'll have to change a lot.
That's what Islam does.
It helps. It gives you the perfect,
plan
in which you can live and sustain yourself
will buy.
Right? So this is the way of life
that will give you everything you need.
So when the next struggle comes up, you'll
know how to deal with it. And the
next problem come, you'll know how to deal
with it.
So where do we get that direction and
that guidance from?
That's the last part of the ayah. This
is what we'll conclude with
and worship your master.
It's more generic now. Before the ayah was
and be of those who are performing sajda.
The last part is more generic and just
be of those who worship.
Why? Because all that's what Allah wants Allah
wants you to live that life now.
Because in another verse,
Allah says,
Whenever
humans or people
were afflicted
with a pain or a struggle.
Well, the first thing they did,
like they made dua to rubba.
And then what did Allah
do as a result of their
So first thing is that they made dua
to Allah. Allah responded,
and when we remove this affliction or this
pain from them,
like, they went on with their life as
though they never ever were sick or afflicted
with anything.
So they used Islam
as a band aid.
This is unacceptable,
and it's not possible to solve your struggles
in your day to day life
if you only go to Allah or only
go to the deen for the problem.
Because the prophet
told us
that Allah
will remember
those in difficulty when they remember him during
ease.
If you remember Allah in in the easy
moments, in the comfortable moments of your life,
Allah will remember you during the times of
hardship and difficulty.
Like, that's everything.
That's how
we build this relationship that, Okay,
that next time I go through this mental
struggle, Insha'Allah,
I'll get through it. So Allah wants you
to just live this life like you've made
tasbih. You started praying and talking to me.
You started depending on me. Now I just
want you to make that your lifestyle.
Until the inevitable comes your way. The inevitable
here is death. So one of the words
for death in the Quran.
Here's the thing.
Why not just say death?
Is that the kind of like, is that
the word you wanna mention to somebody who
is at their lowest? We'll Be like, you
know what, man?
If you don't change and like, if you
don't get a grip of your life, you
might die.
Then you're just going to die. You're sending
yourself to an early grave.
It's the last thing you want to say
to anybody with any mental health struggle.
So you see how subtle the Quran is
Allah says
Worship me until you're very meaning for the
rest of your life. Stay on this path
now where you're close to me.
Allah knows that he's still vulnerable, sallallahu alayhi
was like he's still feeling a bit down,
but he's starting to regain some, you know,
starting to muster up some courage again.
So Allah is saying to him, Look, stay
on this path
and call the people towards this path.
This certainty is going to come.
So you're saying it, but you're not really
saying it. Because why? The person you're talking
to, you have to be very cautious. This
is one of the things that I personally
I personally like pay attention to and try
to do as carefully as possible when anytime
somebody comes into my office with any mental
health struggle. That's the first thing is like
I have to really
be ready and think things through before I
open my mouth and say anything. Because why?
If I slip up and I say one
wrong word
or something that, you know, it just it's
a sort of came out out of habit,
but it's not what I really meant or
it's not the word I wanted to use.
It could be detrimental to that individual.
Like, they could walk away feeling worse.
So there are other ways you can get
a strong message across.
You know, sometimes in some of the cases
that I deal with,
sometimes it's very obvious where the struggle came
from.
Didn't come from a third party.
It came from the person sitting in front
of me like they did this to themselves.
They brought this problem to solve.
But I can't sit there and be like,
well,
what do you want me to do? You
did this to yourself.
You know, if you continue this way, you're
just going to get into an early grave.
So what are you going to do about
it? I can't do that.
And
clearly mentions here
that you can address the problem. You can
tackle the issue,
but you must be wise and you must
be subtle and don't use harsh language or
harsh words when somebody is in such a
vulnerable
state.
So that's today's verse.
And Insha'Allah next week's verse,
is going to be a fantastic one. I've
already like started preparing that verse.
I I promised myself I wouldn't say what
the verse it was, but,
it's a verse in Surat Al Ahazab.
Okay?
And it is for me what I
think is the
top
3 most
comprehensive
verses in the entire Quran.
In the entire like, you can write volumes
of every aya, every verse in the entire
Quran.
But then there are a couple.
And this I Allahu'ala.
I personally like just my study through it
over the years is I feel that this
verse
is one of the most comprehensive.
It literally is the verse of everything,
and it's a verse I don't believe we
will get done in one session. It'll take
us a couple of sessions Insha'Allah.
It starts off something like
and
I won't
say the rest. Right?
But, that should give you a hint of
what that verse is. So
please join us, inshallah,
next week for those of you online.
But those of you in
person, we will be back in class next
week, inshallah,
and get right to work. So we only
have a couple sessions left. So I really
at least wanna get,
1 or 2 more verses left inshallahutahala
and then we will conclude
the, the program for the year. But having
said that, for those of us who are
out there struggling with any mental health, I
pray that Allah
give you ease,
give you strength,
give you clarity.
May
Allah give you direction.
May Allah
ease your struggle.
May Allah
cure
your problems and your struggles,
in a way that
will please him,
in a way that will ease the pain
and struggle in your life.
If you have any questions, guys, you're more
than welcome. Just drop me an email
Okay? That's my,
email for the Islamic
Institute. So drop me a line
when you whenever you want. If you wanna
set an appointment or something,
we can also go ahead and do that
Okay, guys? So leave you with this,
and,
hopefully,
We see all of you next week and
many more inshallah. Okay?