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.