Wael Ibrahim – The Disease & The Cure #01
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The speaker discusses the book Insha'ra Ta'ala, which focuses on finding a cure for addictive behavior and emphasizes the need to find a cure for every illness. They stress the importance of finding a cure for old age and maintaining healthy lifestyle. The speaker also discusses running away from distressed behavior and avoiding graduating from drama, emphasizing the need to find a cure that matches the intensity of diseases.AI: Transcript ©
Platform where Insha'Allah Ta'ala I'll be delivering
several courses on variety of subjects Insha'Allah in
the days to come. Please pray for me.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from 1
and all, but
this course in particular it's quite lengthy and
also pertaining to the work that I've been
doing for the past many years alhamdulillah regarding
addictive behavior. The book that I'm gonna teach
Insha'Allah Ta'ala is.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala have mercy upon
his soul and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
reward him for the great work that he
had left behind. And as I mentioned, it
is very very special to my heart because
I have benefited a lot from this book,
for myself, my family, but also in the
work of counseling and helping people to get
rid of the addictive behaviors. This book has
been a great source of assistance. So Insha'Allah
as you can see the book is quite
lengthy and it's gonna take me a while
to deliver all its content. So pray for
me Insha'Allah but Bismillah we will begin today
in this very episode. Before we delve into
the content of the book Insha'
insha'Allah, I want you to develop this student
mindset insha'Allah. So don't just watch the video
because
you wanted to hear something inspirational or motivation.
And I'm not negating that aspect as well.
So I want you to be inspired. I
want you to be motivated. But rather than
just being motivated and just being inspired and
do nothing, I wanted you to develop the
student mindset. I want you to grab a
notebook and a pen and start taking notes
as much as you can because most likely
when you write down the knowledge you'll be
able to retain it in the future Insha'Allah
Ta'ala and you'll be able to teach it
to others as well. So Bismillah,
let's begin asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
accept this humble effort from myself and my
team and everyone who will participate in it.
Insha'Allah Ta'ala. Say Ameen. Now, this book has
been known by a different title. The common
title that we have named the course with
is
the disease or the illness and the cure.
But the original title was
The
the one who seeks or who asked about
the sufficient or the curable remedy. Now the
author of this amazing book is Imam Ibn
ibn al Qayyim al Jawayyah. Now Insha'Allah Ta'ala,
your first homework is to click the link
in the description below to know more about
this great man who left behind wealth of
knowledge to the Ummah of Islam. Now in
today's lesson Insha'Allah Ta'ala we're gonna discuss the
first chapter of the book which he titled
for every illness there is a cure. Allahu
Akbar. From the beginning of the book we
are infused with hope. My brothers and sisters
in Islam, how many of us were drowned
in the sins to a point that they
have lost hope in the mercy of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. So from the title itself
of this chapter, imamidmal qayeem Rahmatullah is reminding
us not to lose hope in the mercy
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Reminding us that
for every disease,
spiritual or even physical, there is a cure.
All we need to do is to look
for it Insha'Allah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told
us in the Quran.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reminded us in the
Quran, tell them, oh Muhammad, those who have
transgressed
all bounds, those who have sinned day and
night, those who have crossed the boundaries of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, despair not from the
mercy of Allah, for Allah forgive all sins.
So if your diseases,
if your illnesses
are pertaining to committing sins, if that's what
you're suffering from, do not ever give up
on Allah. Do not ever lose this hope
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's mercy and forgiveness.
Why? Because Allah reminded us that among his
qualities is forgiveness
and showering us with his mercy.
Remember, he is the one who forgives. He
is the one who owns mercy and can
shower us with his mercy. So don't ever
lose hope because for every illness, no matter
how big or small, there is a cure.
But we have to remind ourselves my brothers,
my sisters in Islam that sometimes Allah will
inflict upon us certain diseases that perhaps we
will be unable to find its cure. The
cure is there as we will call the
ahadith in a little while Insha'Allah. So the
promise is there that the cure has been
created with the disease. There is no question
about it. But sometimes because of our limitations,
we won't be able to find the cure
in this dunni. We won't be able to
witness that cure for ourselves. And as a
result, if we demonstrated patience, perseverance, and acceptance,
and contentment,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will multiply our rewards
in the hereafter on the day of judgment
Insha'Allah Ta'ala. But the cure is there, all
we need to do is to keep looking
for it Insha'Allah. So let's go through the
hadith that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Messenger Muhammad
Sallallahu Wa Salam mentioned regarding this. So the
first hadith for example the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
whenever he descend or send down a disease,
he send with it its cure. Allahu Akbar.
So number 1, my brothers and sisters in
Islam, remember don't ever give up on Allah.
Don't ever lose hope in the mercy of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. 2nd, keep on finding
that cure because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised
that he created that cure when he decide
to send down that disease. So it's there,
all what we need to do as I
mentioned earlier is to keep looking for it.
In another narration, the Prophet Muhammad SAW wasalam
was sitting with his companions and one of
them asked the prophet
The person is asking the prophet
do we have to look for a cure
if we are sick, if we are infected
or inflicted
by any calamities, by any diseases? Do we
go and seek for a cure? The Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam
said,
Yes, go and seek the cure, O slaves
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. For Allah Subhanahu
Ta'ala indeed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala never descend
or never send down any disease except that
He send with it its cure.
Except old age. So my brothers and sisters
Islam out there are trying to plan for
plastic surgeries and beautify themselves and stretch their
skins to look younger. Hey, hey, hey. No
matter what you're trying to do or to
achieve, you are growing old whether you like
it or not. There is no cure for
that one disease. Allah did not send a
cure or Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not
send a fix for old age. You're gonna
grow old whether you like it or not.
And the more you try to create something
else or to do something else to defeat
that inevitable
faith growing old, you will create out of
yourself a mess. So don't ever come to
this area. Look after your health. Yes, Try
to eat healthy, exercise, whatever the case may
be just to maintain a good healthy lifestyle.
But to try to look younger and to
do whatever you could and to spend 1,000
of dollars just to be younger, this is
not gonna happen because you're growing old whether
you like it or not. So the prophet
SAW Hassan told us for every disease that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decided
for us to discover or to experience, there
is a cure for it that was created
except old age. So accept that and move
on Insha'Allah. But the one hadith that I
wanted to highlight in this episode in particular,
in that lesson in particular, is the beautiful
hadith where the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said,
To every disease there is a cure. As
we said earlier,
So when the cure matches the disease, when
you use the appropriate remedy for that particular
disease,
such a person will be cured by Allah's
permission. So the cure or the remedy has
to match the disease in its intensity. And
this is where I wanted to post for
a while because this is something pertaining to
what I do, addictive behavior. I was discussing
with many of my clients who are afflicted
by their addiction to gaming, social media, *
and the like. The strategy of Prophet Yusuf
that he applied when the wife of Al
Aziz, the wife of the Egyptian minister back
then seduced him to commit zina. And I
want you to visualize this scene with me
my brothers and sisters in Islam. And then
we'll come back to this idea of how
can we find the necessary cure that will
match the intensity of the sin or the
intensity of that particular disease. Yusuf alaihis salam
was dragged into a room where Imra'atul
Aziz, the wife of the minister
locked it and she put guards outside, no
one enters, no one exits, and she invited
him plainly, hayi talak, I'm all yours. And
SubhanAllah Al Azim, if we think about that
scene, Prophet Yusuf alaihis salam was cornered. But
not only that, all doors of this room
was locked.
And she locked all the doors. Can you
imagine the intensity of the situation? She invited
him plainly to commit zina. But how did
Yusuf alaihis salam, a man who was given
half of the beauty of the universe, so
he could have actually taken that into his
advantage and enjoy life. May Allah protect us
all. But rather he did the following
3 steps which I want you to focus
on so that we can connect the dots
Insha'Allah to the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam regarding when the cure
matches the intensity of the disease, such a
person will be cured by Allah's permission. Yusuf
alaihis salam when he realized that he had
entered into that danger zone, he said,
he ran to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
seek his protection.
You Allah protect me from such sinful activity.
So the first thing that can assist you
and help you out exit from that miserable
intense perhaps addictive
behavior is to number 1, run to Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'la, prostrate, make dua, ask Allah
to save you from such a faith. 2nd,
Prophet Yusuf Alaihi Salam run away from the
lady to the opposite direction and ask yourself
my brothers and sisters in Islam, where was
he running to? Think about it. As we
mentioned earlier,
she locked the doors, she secured all the
entries and all the exits. There was no
way for him to find a better place.
He was still in that room with the
lady. But what he did, the lady was
here, he ran to the opposite
direction. Whenever the sin is being committed or
about to be committed and you sense that
you are in danger zone,
do not even think for a blinking of
an eye. Run away. That's the strategy. Run
away. She ran after him, he ran to
the opposite direction. And the third point that
Yusuf alaihis salam applied was the intensity part.
When the lady invited the other ladies who
started making rumor about her, she invited them
to let them see the beauty and the
handsomeness
alaihis salam entered, they were in shock of
this man's
glowing beauty to a point that they started
cutting their hands without even realizing. And then
the lady confessed, I am the one who
seduced him.
So he resisted with all his might, intense
rejection of the sin. Intense resistance
to the temptations that you're going through. This
is how you can exit from your drama.
But if you give it a minute to
think about it, if you give it a
little bit watching this, a little bit just
you know soft kind of imagery,
it will not really lead to a massive
relapse like every time before you know it,
you will drown down deep into that dark
phase of sin. You would want to come
out, you would want to exit, but you
will not be able to. Why? Because you
waited a little while. But Yusuf alaihis salam,
Qalam A'adhallah, he saw the protection of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Number 2, he ran and
when he ran she hold she held his
shirt
then he ran even with might with all
his power with every particle of his body
to a point that the shirt was ripped
off. This is how
strong he was resisting temptation. These three steps
my brothers and sisters in Islam which I
call Yusuf alaihis salam strategy to exit from
sinful activity of that intensity is what the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was referring to.
That when the remedy matches the intensity of
the sin, such a person will be cured
by the permission of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Try to reflect and apply these ahadith to
your own context, to whatever you're going through.
And once you found that cure, don't let
go of it. Take it with all your
might. Just as how Yusuf alaihi wasalam was
able to exit the intensity,
the sinful activity of Zina. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala grant us the right understanding
and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala save us
from every illnesses physical or spiritual Ameen, Ameen,
Ameen until next episode and next lesson Insha'Allah.
JazakAllahu Khayram If you benefited and you feel
like you want to share it with other
people to benefit like yourself, please do so.
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