Rania Awaad – The Power of Faith

			I hear this often too, this idea that
		

			the believer,
		

			the mukmin, does not actually fall into any
		

			sort of depression or ikhtihad, like, as you
		

			mentioned. Because I feel like we've gone far
		

			from our understanding of our
		

			of the tradition of our prophet sallallahu alaihi
		

			wa sallam where there was an entire year
		

			in his life in his seerah called the
		

			Amul Husun or the year of sadness, the
		

			year of sorrow, the year of grief.
		

			He had multiple losses that happened. And when
		

			you think about that year, even the companions
		

			around him were very concerned about how deep
		

			that grief was.
		

			And yet we know at the same time
		

			that prophet Muhammad,
		

			peace be upon him, was,
		

			right, the best of all creation.
		

			So you have someone who
		

			is so incredibly connected to Allah,
		

			to God. And at the same time,
		

			that does not take away from feeling grief
		

			or sorrow.
		

			And every day that he would wake up,
		

			we know that there's a thought, you know,
		

			kind of remembrances of the Sabahim as of
		

			morning evening. And one of my favorite is
		

			the one that he says in the mornings
		

			where he says it starts off
		

			with. Will I seek refuge in you from
		

			worry and grief? And he acknowledging
		

			that these are real human emotions even as
		

			as as best of a person you are.
		

			You're still going to experience these emotions because
		

			Allah created these emotions.
		

			So when I hear people say this, it's
		

			almost like we've forgotten part of our tradition.