Suhaib Webb – Anxiety & Paradise
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Speaker 1 discusses the concept of anxiety and how it can be a result of a fragile world. He uses the example of Adam and his wife being expelled from paradise to explain the concept of anxiety and how it can be a blessing. He also discusses the importance of anxiety as a means of sparking our fitra and reminds us of the pain our parents felt when they left Jannah.
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Assalamu alaikum.
A
lot of anxiety going on these days, man.
Understandably so.
You know, anxiety is real. You find chapters
in the major books of Hadith about what
the process would say when he was anxious.
Sometimes people tell me does being anxious mean
I'm a bad person or I have weak
iman?
No, it means you care about things, means
you're awesome, Masha Allah, you have empathy.
And with that in mind, it's important to
understand theologically
that anxiety
is a necessary result
of a fragile world,
a temporary world.
The dunya. What is howadith?
I say that because I heard something that's
very transformative from my teacher about all of
this,
who, when we were memorizing the Quran some
years
ago, you know, he said to me, have
you ever paid attention that when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
talks about Adam and his wife being expelled
from paradise, he uses 2 different
type of words. I was like, what do
you mean? He's like,
Allah says that both of you are expelled
from paradise,
meaning our mother and our father, and Adam.
But then also there's this form,
all of you
are expelled from paradise. I was like, that's
true.
What does that mean? And he says, didn't
Allah take out all of the yet, the
offspring of Adam and asked him,
am I not your lord? And they said,
yes.
So he said, not only did Adam and
Hawa lose paradise,
we lost it.
So anxiety
also
at times can be a blessing
because it reminds
pushes us to look beyond all of the
comforts
and all of the joys that the temporary
world offers us
and allows us to see through our nature
that there is an abode
which truly has
sekinah, tranquility.
That there is an abode.
There is an abode that has no fear,
has no anxiety,
has no grief.
So oftentimes
anxiety
is a means of sparking our fitra,
our nature to remind us
the pain that our parents felt when they
left Jannah.
The anxiety they felt when they entered in
the dunya.
Thus, our anxiety is really our longing
for home.
Hope inshallah that brings some ease and peace
to your heart. And I wish you well.