Yahya Ibrahim – Islam Q & A – Mental health Focus

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			I said I'm on ecom warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu Welcome back. It's a pleasure having you with us at
Islam channel. It's your brother Yeah, hey, we're here coming to you live from Perth, Western
Australia, from my home to yours. I pray that Allah subhanho wa Taala makes you of use and valuable
to each other. Allah him. I mean, we've been speaking while we are receiving your calls live on air,
about the importance of mental health for us as Muslims, and that it is very much something that we
can learn so much from the habits, behaviors, life and Sierra and sooner of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we've been looking at moments in his life and extracting principles and
		

			will soon to live by within ourselves. The last thing that we spoke about was that mentally strong
mentally tough people, resilient people are those who don't get overly distracted with things that
are beyond their control, or of lesser priority. The next point, the next, honestly, that we want to
discuss in child law is that those who have a strong mental resilience and good mental health are
those who are not always wanting to please others, when it is something that is at their own peril
or something that is not pleasing to themselves, in turn. And this is something that you see in the
life of the prophets. I said, it was so easy for many different moments in the life of the Prophet I
		

			said that in the early days of Mecca to simply fall, or to compromise, but rather we've been given a
very important constitution in Surah Al caffi. rune, the unbelievers, Allah says, respond to them.
Yeah, Mohammed, the people of Mecca, they came and they said, Yeah, Mohammed, Salah, let's make a
compromise. How about this, we will begin for one year, one year of worshipping your God, and we
won't worship any of ours. We'll put them all aside for one year. But you need to make a promise
that at the end of that year, that we can then go back to worshipping our gods, and you would join
us. And you know, for some people, you know, maybe even for some of us today, we would say, Listen,
		

			if these people practice Islam for a year, they'll forget all about the ship. Let's make a deal.
Let's get through it. At least they're coming to Islam, at least half of them will stay Muslim, it
might be a good, good thing. But that's not how we are as Muslims. We are not those who seek to
compromise in that sense, where it is something that brings disrepute to our faith, and changes the
ideals of how we view the world. So Allah subhanho wa Taala makes it easy. He says to us, don't
worry about what other people worship but focus on what you worship. What do you and Kathy rune, say
to those who want to remain as unbelievers in your faith lab, you don't matter who do. I will never
		

			commit to worshiping what you worship. Why that and tomorrow between a man and a boy, and you are
being dishonest when you say that you would worship what I worship, if in your mind, in a year's
time, you're going to go back to your idolatry. When and tomorrow be doing an app with an app you do
not want worship what you I will never claim that and you truly don't mean that let them do you have
your own life. You have your own faith, you have your own practice. Well, your deen so let me have
my own. What a wonderful way of framing that important principle, always wanting to compromise and
please others is not going to be beneficial for your relationship for your work experience. It's not
		

			going to be beneficial for you on the job in your home with your family with with those who are
friends, and certainly not with those who are enemies. And in fact, it becomes really important for
us as human beings to develop a sense of uprightness and a moral ethics. That doesn't waver
necessarily with the pressures that are put on us. Because there are certain things in life in faith
that are absolutes. There are certain things that are held on and there are certain things that are
Haram. Within the halal there's that which is better and worse.
		

			But there isn't better and worse in mixing halal and haram. halaal is halal and haram is haram and
it can't be changed just on account of the whims and desires of oneself or others. And those who
have resilience are those who are able to hold on to the truth. Even if their own they are on their
own. We have this principle in Islam that says unintelligible our encounter, whether you are the
majority, even if you are singular, if everybody in the majority in numbers are doing what's wrong,
you are the morally in majority as an individual, a singular individual, even though the whole world
around you is doing something different, that is immoral. And if you find yourself ever at a time
		

			when everybody around you and breaking the law or doing that, which is wrong, it does not give you
the right to follow suit and say, Well, everybody else is doing it. Why should it not? for us as
Muslims remaining mentally fit and strong. One of its signs and the things that increases our
resilience is being able to stand by the truth, even though it may displease others, even though it
will win us the respect of an enemy, rather than to find compromise that will give us a windfall of
luxuries or wealth or whatever else. Sometimes it's important to hold on to the truth, even if it
feels like a burning coal as described by the prophet Isaiah. he prophesied that there will come a
		

			time for a believer to hold on to the truth for her and him. It would be like to hold on to a litte
Ember a coal in their hand. It's something that searing pain but you have to hold on for the truth.
		

			Another important principle that we have as Muslims is that mentally strong people are not afraid to
take calculated risks to Pamela, the Battle of bed that is such an example. The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was the one who initiated the Battle of bed. He's the one who went out in pursuit
of Abu sufian. And the caravan that was full of riches stolen from his companions, stolen from the
Muslims who had made hedgerow to El Medina. And the prophets. I seldom said Allah has said to us in
the Quran, within and in Medina.
		

			It's now given permission at the end of Hong volleyball, to go out in defending of themselves and
their wealth and their property on account of the oppression, injustice that was done. And once
again, the people of Mecca, they stole all of the amassed wealth that was left behind when the
Muslims migrated. And they took it out of their homes get out of their estate, and they sent it to
trade it away to grow in their prosperity. The Prophet said that we're not going to sit by and wait.
And he took a calculated risk with only 313 men, he went out in pursuit of this rightful important
duty of defending themselves and their wealth and the truth. And they faced an army of 1000. The
		

			prophets Allah Allah, while he was Selim knew that although the odds are stacked against them, he
knew that it is a calculated risk that will reap much reward by the promise of Allah. And because of
the determination of faith, as the Battle of bedded in,
		

			involved, ended, the Muslim will victorious. And the first battle of Islam was given in great great
victory to that Nevada Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and it shows that when you are a person
who goes out in that which is right for the right reasons in the right time with the right people,
and you find yourself in a solid state of Eman and faithfulness, only good things can come about
another important principle that we have those who have mentally
		

			who have strengthened their mental health as coming to terms with the in justices and the mistakes
of the past and being able to put the past behind not dwelling on the past and letting it haunt them
and living through it each and every day each and every moment. reliving what was said reliving what
was taken reliving what was lost reliving what was missing, invested, keeping in your mind, well,
what if had I If only I had and the profits are excellent teaches us this principle in a very simple
way. He says the word low if it was or had I done or what if low, mean calamity. shavon is a
statement that is spoken and placed in your heart by the devil. He wants to weaken your faith that
		

			there is an ultimate power, and that the word Allah who Akobo God is greater than all is true for
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			slumps, that we have this conviction that there is always good in every condition that we're in. If
you remain a believer, even when there's a downturn, it is better for you, if you are unable to
understand it in that moment, and coming to terms with the past, coming to terms with injustice,
coming to terms with a loss, coming to terms with a misstep, coming to terms with a sin, a mistake
that you have made, coming to terms with errors is something that is the hallmark of a believer, it
is something that allows you to move forward. Imagine if Harley didn't well he who is an
instrumental cause and reason for the loss of the is the army of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam in the Battle of God through His pincer move around the mount of a rumor. Imagine if Khalid
was haunted by that path. How can I go with z Mohammed's eyes held up? How can I ask him for
forgiveness? What if he was to see me in order my execution? What if? What if? What if What if
Khalid would have remained in a state of darkness and disbelief and unable to come to the truth?
What if I'm going to MIT Asante, Allahu anhu, who chase the Muslims who migrated to Ethiopia once
and twice? What if he said to himself, Mohammed would never forgive me because of my past? What if
you continue to relive it, even though he wanted to transcend it, and becomes important for you and
		

			I, to understand that part of life is to get up after we've fallen, dust ourselves off, and hold
ourselves high, and move forward, move forward again, try again, try a new experience, come at it
from a different angle, share with other people, try and try again. Sadly, sometimes, you know, may
Allah some kind of a time to heal the heart. I've had in my practice as a mediator at times or as a
counselor, I've sat with a brother or a sister who've been broken by a bad experience a bad
marriage, something that's haunting them. One of the most important aspects is to heal, how they
view themselves, not just how other people interacted with being able to forgive yourself for
		

			allowing somebody to have done that to you and not have escaped in the beginning, or put an end to
it earlier on. Sometimes those are things Why was I so stupid? Why didn't I do things better? Why
did I wait so long? And all of the thoughts I want you to know, are important, but not to let them
ruin, the positivity that is yet to come into the future. We pray them lots of padding went to Allah
gives us that mental strength, where we're able to put things away in our past by repenting,
protecting ourselves from them happening again, and learning from the lesson and helping others not
do or experience what we've experienced. And having faith in Allah, that nothing in this life occurs
		

			except that Allah Subhana Allah Allah will send it into its right account. May Allah Allah Allah
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			listening. When was that second that second statement first, my dear brother, Allah subhanho wa
Taala doesn't punish us in that sense at all. And I want you to understand that the Almighty Allah
subhana wa to Allah is not punitive in that sense is not vengeful in that sense. Allah
		

			Hannah Montana being a rough man, his quality of graciousness, merciful pneus compassion does not
change on account of the misbehavior or the righteous behavior of his creation, you can send in
greater mercies of Allah, but that which is a mercy of Allah and that which is destined for us by
Allah is not taken and given back to us on account of how we are performing or living life in a
particular moment. In fact, a believer and an unbeliever may experienced the same thing. And it
could be that for the believer, it is something that is at a moment of Allah's mercy and kindness to
them a bit, something that has befallen them, it's a mercy from Allah and a cleansing from Allah,
		

			that healing from Allah. And for another person, it could be something that is not a cleansing and
not a healing. And it's on account of the intention of the individual themselves. We take this from
the principle of the prophets, I send them saying, enter and on the app dB, that a lot said to the
Prophet, say to my people, say to those who believe in me, I am as my creation assumes me to be. So
if you assume Allah is punishing me is is is a sending His wrath against me, then this is what you
will experience this is what you will feel. But if you assume that this is a way of Allah, cleansing
me for something of the past, or a way of Allah testing me in faith, so that I have courage and move
		

			forward in life, you know, we ask Allah Subhana Allah for courage. So Allah gives us a challenge
always that we're courageous, the courage was always with us, the strength was always with us. But
had we not had that moment of difficulty, it would not have emerged, you would not have known that
you are capable of doing the things that you achieve and do now with regards to waking up before the
sunrise by a few minutes or half an hour. I don't know what the current time schedule is in the area
that you're in. Generally speaking, we do know from the data that you share that there are moments
when the prophets I tell them pray, fed you, and it was beginning to get writer and that breaks
		

			would come through her window and she could still hear the Prophet leading prayer sallallahu it was
selling, we know also that in the middle of a memorable hanifa, that the failure is something that
is not done in the very darkest hour of the fabric, but it should be delayed a little bit so that
people have that wakefulness. We also know from the sooner that the profit when you if you begin the
prayer in the darkness, he would lead with a long route citation to allow people to come 4060 even
100 a year, in certain very, sort of in their day of tomorrow, for example, the Prophet would read
with sort of message that in the first three or four pages, and then you would read with sort of an
		

			insane in the second rock. So these were ways of the prophets I celebrate, what I do recommend is
that you try to follow the calendar, and we the community that you're accepting of their assessment
of the calendar and the delineation of the sun, and trying to find something that is good for your
schedule. Certainly don't wait for sunrise. And certainly if it is something that at the very
earliest minute, you can delay it a little bit. Perhaps, you know, the first quarter or so might be
a good objective for you to try to migrate towards insha Allah and I pray that Allah Subhana Allah,
from all of us in you that you're able to remember as your prayers a lot more I mean.
		

			So though, that that's an important kind of consideration and question I did want to also speak
about as something that gives mental strength. And it's given to us as a secondary question from our
dear brother who shared that question with us. He said, I'm told by others, and he said that this
was something that disturbed me and that that's a really as a powerful statement by him. Sometimes
we discount. Sometimes we discount the influence we have upon other people by something we
haphazardly said say, Oh, no, I don't think that's correct. So you put in someone's heart and mind
that they're doing something that's not correct. And all of a sudden you made their life more
		

			difficult. The prophets Allah Allah he was selling would not accept that kind of thing. In fact,
some of the most difficult words to be spoken by their own amat by the knowledgeable of the people
of the past and present is that something is wrong or something is detested. Whenever you hear
anybody being flippant and quick and saying param param param. This is Hi it's almost like the
haraam police, you immediately know that this person is not learned of the truth. In fact, and man
made it may have been one of the four
		

			Chemical, chemical, men have an Islam and he mathematically humble. He was very, very rarely ever
use the word hello. He would find other ways to indicate this isn't something that should be done.
So he would say things like ukara, who this is hated, detested. Are you familiar with Alec? Do
people actually do this, nobody does this and so on. So it becomes important for us to be careful
with other people's hearts and other people's belief. May Allah subhanaw taala increases in good, I
pray the loss of Hannah with the other allows us to come together and share in is higher along I
mean, be careful in what you say in representing the word of Allah, you are not and I am not
		

			commanded to speak on behalf of Allah. And if you notice those who take this platform to try to
answer some of the questions that are provided to us. We tried to find the means from the sooner the
older I'm assuming of the prophets, I sell them to make life facilitated, easy for the believers in
a way that is within the framework of Islam and not to be overly burdening of them. metla accept
from all of us. I love them. I mean, your brother Yeah, Ibrahim was selling while he was alive. He
was gonna cut