Omar Suleiman – The Quran and Depression

			people to live in Allahumma salli wa Salam aboda cannot be caught Asuka Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, while early he also had to sell him to see him and cathedra
		

			of the Laguna shuddered. Rahim Allah He narrates that one day I came to salatu Fajr and I came very
late so I was in the very back rows of the Salah. And it was during the Khilafah of Ramadan.
barbital the Allah Tala and who so he walks into the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam to pray behind honorable Hopital the Allah Tala Anhu. And he said I came late. So presumably
in the second record, all the way in the back row. And he said, Satan all model the Allahu taala.
And who was reciting Surah, Yusuf that day.
		

			And he said, that he started to recite in a school bethey where his knee in Allah,
		

			that verily I complain of my grief, and of my sadness only to Allah.
		

			And he said, he started to cry so loud that I could hear him all the way from the back row.
Subhanallah no speaker system, no, nothing. I could hear him weeping all the way from the back rows.
And he would try to collect himself and recite it again. And then he would cry again. Well, the
Allah Tala Anhu and he would try again and he'd cry again. But all the Allahu Taala on him. Now
Subhanallah if you prayed behind the Imam and the mom started to weep in an unusual way, you know,
it's very possible that afterwards you'd come up to him and just put your hands up on the back and
say, you know, may Allah make it easy, I hope everything's okay. Or is everything okay? You might be
		

			concerned. But the norm of the companions was to have this type of a relationship with the Quran.
And I want you to ask yourself, what do you think? Oh my God, Allah Tada and who was crying about?
Was he crying about Jacoba his Salam, the pain of Jacob with his son Joseph with use of it, his
salaam, and just the moments of Surah Yusuf that are so personal. Was he crying because he was
thinking about something with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was he perhaps still grieving
the death of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam and we know that he always was grieving the death
of the Prophet slice and I'm all the way up until his own death. There's something happened to our
		

			model, the Allah Tada, I know, to where that I was hitting him in a particular way. Did one of his
children become sick? Was he dealing with a hardship that no one knew about? The answer is, it could
be any of them. And it could be all of them. Because that was their relationship with the Quran. Now
how many of you and I just want to see a show of hands actually want this to show let's Anna be an
exercise for us. How many of you have found comfort in Surah Yusuf during a hard time in your life
so to use in particular?
		

			Very good. How many of you have found it in another Surah? In particular, can anyone tell me that
surah and he saw it on particular that has appealed to you
		

			so little boy ha, very good. Anyone else wants to say another student? Yes.
		

			Can you recite repeat?
		

			A tough problem? Mashallah, what else?
		

			Surah
		

			Zuma? Mashallah. So many sorrows, I can see them coming. Alright. Well, we'll finish all the
soldiers in the Quran. And that's actually a good thing. That's the point. Different sutras will
speak to you at a different point in your life. Now, a question that I get asked, and it's a it's an
interesting question, and I want to unpack it a bit in Charlotte's on. Does the Quran cure
depression? You know, right now, we live in a world where mental health has been put front and
center, especially in the wake of a pandemic, and these questions about mental health and depression
and emptiness and grief. And it forces us to really dig deep and to look for solutions. And may
		

			Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for everyone who has been struggling in whatever way they have
been, Allahu Amin, and the question will be about the Quran and specific the relationship of the
Quran, to depression, to sadness, to grief, and everything that comes under that category of
sadness. And I want to unpack this a bit from the perspective of our dean. And it's very important
for us to say, and to acknowledge from the very start, that as Muslims, our solutions to these
problems are going to be unique because our belief system is so unique. We believe in something very
different. And so it's very hard for us to relate this to someone who doesn't believe like we
		

			believe we believe that everything good comes from Allah subhanho wa taala. We believe that
everything that will give us salvation in this life and in the next is found in some way grounded
within this notion of Tawheed within this notion of the oneness of
		

			God, we believe that in the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is called to attune Hassan is an
excellent example in every single matter of our lives. And so the way we approach this question
necessarily has to be different from the way that someone else approaches this question. So let's
start with a rule. There is a difference between prevention and restoration, prevention and
restoration, meaning something that protects one from falling into difficulty and something that
cures you once you have fallen into difficulty prevention versus restoration. And we can say without
a doubt, that the Quran is a means of prevention. For many of the hardships that come in our lives
		

			and the things that tell us in our lives, many of them the Quran is a prevention and to not have the
Quran in your heart is a source of sadness is a source of emptiness, if you don't have the Quran in
your heart, and we know this from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Allah the late Sufi
JioFi he shaped them into Quran tbaytel Hara the prophets lie. Some said, the one who doesn't have
anything of the Quran in their heart is like a destroyed house. It's like a destroyed house. And so,
if you go to a destroyed house, and you try to fix one wall or put up one stick, you're still
dealing with a house that is destroyed. The Quran is the source of our collectiveness of our
		

			togetherness in the first place. It's the first foundation of that. And so the Quran is a source of
fulfillment. The Quran is a source of meaning. And certainly, much of what can cause sadness and
emptiness is a lack of clarity and a lack of purpose and the Quran gives a strong sense of clarity
and a strong sense of purpose to us a strong sense of fulfillment. And so at that level, the Quran
is a foundation for meaning and meaning is a foundation for happiness. Let's start with that. Then
you go to the question of restoration,
		

			a cure Allah subhanaw taala describes the Quran as Shiva only math is sold as a door for that which
is in the chests. So the Quran is a cure. Now, is the Quran a cure for a physical illness?
		

			If a person is physically sick, can the Quran part of a cure for that person? Yes.
		

			reading Quran on a person, part of Rokia it's part of a cure the prophets lie Selim even allowed for
sides of an appeal called the Allah Tala and who to read certain Fatiha upon a non Muslim chief and
it cured him from a physical perspective. Now, here's where it becomes a very important question as
well. Because there's a difference between saying that the Quran is the cure a cure, and being
dismissive of other ways in which we also strengthen ourselves. Is it impermissible to take medicine
while you read the Quran on yourself as you're physically carrying yourself? No. So there's a
difference between saying to someone that the Quran is a cure, read Quran on yourself, drink from
		

			this water, read, you know, read the rokeya on yourself. And just do that and don't take any
medicine don't do anything else. Don't do anything else for your physical health. And dismissing the
Quran together, the Quran is Shiva only manifests adore, and is a cure for what is in the test. Now
we are made up of so many different beings, right in the sense that we have a physical perspective,
a mental perspective, a spiritual perspective, an emotional perspective and physiological
perspective, all of these things are to be taken into consideration and the prophets lie. Some of
them said, to give everything it's right to give your body it's right and to give all of these
		

			different parts of yourself there, right. And so that's why they're element mentioned. Now if I am
Rahim, Allah to Allah approaches this in the same way from a physical perspective, the profit slice
and I'm saying to to a woman who was complaining of sadness to use the Bina which is boiled barley.
And he said, sallAllahu said, I'm telling you about the person that it doesn't work with some of
your grief. So a prophetic medicine without any of the side effects and things of that sort, meaning
that it establishes the permissibility. It establishes the permissibility of other methods. This is
not an open door, by the way, for all of the antidepressants that are out there, and the quick
		

			overdiagnosis that also exists within this field. Okay, this is to say that Islam acknowledges and
is not dismissive of the fact that there are other ways that we all keep our hearts healthy, that we
keep our moods up that we keep ourselves emotionally engaged. So one tells you read suit with a
little hat and take a walk and talk to this person, all of that.
		

			But for the Muslim, the Quran is fundamentally part of that alleviation. You understand the Quran is
fundamentally part of that process.
		

			At the prevention level and at the restoration level, and to neglect it is only to your own. So no,
you don't come, you know, someone comes to you and says that, you know, I'm feeling this, and you
neglect everything and say, just read through Bloodhound, it'll go away tomorrow. No, but you look
towards the Quran as a means of that elevation as a means of the alleviation of a person. And that's
fundamental to us. And I actually want you Subhanallah think about this. papel derive from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and Ramadan is a time to memorize a shift. Yes, it has been
doing every day after selected also going over some of the grants from the Sunnah, some of the
		

			supplications from the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. You can go to the Athene
website and you'll see shift bajada. Wyatt authored do ask for hardship, you're asked for hardship,
and you'll find many of those grants that are meant to alleviate hardship. And this particular one
is a profound one that I want us to pay attention to the wording of. The prophets of Allah Azza wa
sallam said, No one says this, do I accept that Allah subhanaw taala turns their thumb turns their
hardship, their distress into follow her into a sense of happiness. So Allah azza wa jal changes
their condition as a result of this. And he taught the Sahaba to say this dua frequently, and the
		

			DUA is as follows and you can find it in multiple variations with slight wording and that's okay,
slight changes Allahumma inni Abduch Can you repeat after me Allahumma in the Duke
		

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the son of your slave web No. ametek the son of your female slave meaning a woman, the son of a male
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			I asked you Oh Allah to make the Quran, the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the reliever
of my grief and the reliever of my distress. Grief prison means the grief that comes before him
means the stress the anxiety of what is to come. The prophets like Selim taught the Sahaba to say
this drought. And what I want you to understand is that the drought has meaning it's not just an
empty drought that you just read, no but the Prophet slice I'm a specifically asking Allah to make
the Quran the greatest source of relief in a person's life, the greatest source of cure in a
person's life. And I challenge each and every single one of you. It really is a challenge and I'll
		

			challenge myself
		

			if the Quran is part of your daily life. If the Quran is part of your daily life, come to me two
months later, and tell me that your mood has not changed. Tell me that your happiness has not
increased. Tell me that you have not felt a greater connection to Allah subhanaw taala and felt more
about okay in your day. Again, we don't dismiss the physiological, the emotional, the mental and so
many other things. But we placed the Quran as part of all of that, because the Quran forms the
foundation of meaning in our hearts. And so every single day after, even if it's going to be
		

			Two pages a day. If you start your day with it, five pages, maybe 10 pages, maybe you can start
doing a juice every single day Allah knows best. But if you start your day with it, watch what
happens to your life.
		

			And you'll find that it transforms it in a way that a house is being built inside of you to the
contrast of what the Prophet sallallahu USM described as a destroyed home, and SubhanAllah. I'll
also say this in conclusion, that you'll find that when the relevant spoke about the Quran, and
different sources that helped them through their difficult times, the Quran speaks to every
circumstance with both both the voice of God as well as the actions of those that are most pleasing
to Him. Meaning what you have Allah subhanaw taala is analysis of every circumstance, someone who's
lost someone who's going through difficulty, someone who's going through hardship, someone who's at
		

			the top, someone who's at the bottom, and it gives you the response of the most beloved people to
him. So none of it is going to be irrelevant to this discussion. So you might find Surah Yusuf, at
one point in your life, you might find certain ramen is what your heart needs. In this moment, you
might find certain you might connect with parts of the Quran that you were unfamiliar with. But now
because you're reading it regularly in the night out, you're finding a connection and inshallah to
add a means by which the fog clears. Clarity. Clarity is so important to a person who needs to
proceed through this life. Clarity. The Quran gives you clarity, and it has miracles embedded within
		

			it, that no book of science is ever going to be able to capture. May Allah subhanaw taala make the
Quran the spring of our hearts, the light of our chest, the reliever of our grief and the reliever
of our distress alarm. I mean, does that mean they'll fight or tsunami