Rasul Suluki – Healing Through Salawat and the Remembrance of Allah

Alhamdulillah,

it's

a real blessing to be here and

to be in the company of young people

who are here.

We are

very grateful to Allah

that he has made us one of the

people

that he brings to gatherings like this.

And,

one of the things that I've been

dealing with is

the surprise that there are so many people

suffering from

anxiety and depression.

And,

I I was thinking

when I was younger,

we didn't have people

in this proportion

that had these problems.

But then I had to rethink it.

And

instead of them getting medication from the doctor,

they were getting medication from

the liquor store or some other

way to deal with their depression.

And so

we're looking to our deen,

and we're looking to Allah

to help us

to overcome

the difficulties in our life. Like the young

man

who said he,

you know,

had a illness that he's

grappling with.

And alhamdulillah,

you could see by his mood

that he had been blessed by Allah

to

overcome it.

Even if it's still there, he's overcome it

because

his thinking about it is different from where

it was.

And this is the same case

with us.

I find that there's too much thinking on

the self,

And as a result of thinking so much

about the self

and this was

the thing that I was told,

you know,

you want to

improve yourself. And

when we got to college, we wanted to

find ourselves

and

all of these concentrations

on the self.

And it wasn't until coming into

these gatherings

like these

that you find that

the best thing to do is to lose

yourself.

The opposite of what everyone emphasizes

in this society

is

you're the most important thing. You're the greatest.

You're the this. You're the that.

But really,

the focus

now is to

forget yourself

in the remembrance of Allah

and the salawats on the messenger of Allah

salawahu alaihi wasalam.

And this is not an easy task.

It is one that calls for

real

effort

and real

pleading with Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

to give us the tawfiq to be able

to do it.

But I find the less I think about

myself

and the more I think about Allah,

the less problems I have.

And I think that this is a real

cure, but

if you're looking for a medication

or the liquor store, which whichever one you

might think will help,

you'll only find more depression and more anxiety.

But if you

come to remember Allah,

and there's a beautiful statement by

one of our sheikhs

who said,

remembering

the messenger of Allah, salallahu alaihi

wasallam, and making a solar wats on him

can balance an unbalanced

mind.

That when you're

when you're struggling with something

mentally,

depression and all these other, they got more

titles now than they ever have. And

what what's gonna cure it,

is the balance that one gets by making

the salawats on the messenger Allah Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam.

So it's not in the medicine bottle

and it's not in,

you know, any of these routines or exercise

or

hairdo change or whatever it is,

it is in

balancing ourselves

through the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

So what are gatherings like this, where we're

all singing together

and making silhouettes on the messenger,

it's

balancing us.

And so this is why these sessions are

so important

because

I don't know about you, but for me

it helps me to get through

everything that I have to deal with.

And when you go to the hospital now

they ask you, are you blue and are

you sad or are you, you know,

planning to commit suicide?

I can go in and check all the

boxes and say, no. I'm happy. I'm happy.

I'm happy.

Like the young man said, he's happy. And

that is

because of this.

So look forward in this. Don't look forward

in anything else. Spend your time in the

remembrance of Allah and making the salawats on

the messenger of Allah and you'll be the

most stable, peaceful,

loving, kind, considerate person that there is. And

we ask Allah

to give us tawfeeq to be able to

do it.