Yahya Ibrahim – Islam Q & A Mental health Focus 21-10-21

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			I said I'm on eco moto moto lahi orbit Academy. It's your brother Yeah. Hey Ibrahim coming to you
live from Perth, Western Australia from my home to yours. I pray that Allah subhanho wa Taala grants
you and I success makes us from those who are virtuous Allahumma I mean, we always begin with the
praise of a love, we send our prayers upon our interview Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
we are thankful to Allah subhana wa to Allah for this opportunity and the wonderful vehicle of Islam
channel of connecting our homes together, where we are able to facilitate
		

			a learning process amongst each other. I pray lost some kind of a tie that allows that the time that
we spend together, that it becomes a time of righteousness and of connection and of love and
fidelity. That we learn more about our commitment to each other through our devotion and seeking the
pleasure of Allah subhana wa tada that Allah Subhana Allah favors us with all that is good for us in
this life and protects us from that which we may seek of it. That is not better for this dunya. And
there are a lot I mean, in chat law, while we wait for your calls to come through, I wanted to
continue with the theme of this month and with the theme that we began last week, as you know, we
		

			meet together every Wednesday 12 noon, London time. Here, it's 7pm in Perth, Western Australia, and
it is 7am. In New York, we pray that Allah Subhana Allah allows us to bridge your gaps from wherever
we are, and that we continue to connect as believers a lot. I mean, the theme that I wanted to
continue with, which is a theme for this week, it's about mental health. And as Muslims, it's
important for us to always continue to try to thrive and flourish and better our environments and
the environments of those that we interact with both those who are family and committed members of
our life, and those who we meet. Incidentally, throughout our days, it's always important to take
		

			note of the well being that we seek to be of greater importance in our life, and to focus on
bettering it and bettering the relationship we have within ourselves so that we can better the
relationship with others, which ultimately is seeking the pleasure of Allah and strengthening our
relationship with him. We spoke a little bit about some of the important moments from the life of
the prophets I send them and lessons in principle that we can learn that can strengthen our faith
and help us build resilience and a stronger mental health approach. Wanted to continue with some of
the principles or assume that you and I can extract from our text as Muslims from the authentic or
		

			narrations of the prophets I send them that are built and predicated on the foundation of Scripture
of the holy words of Allah, you know, and one of the important principles while we wait for your
calls to come in and as you get through the queue, inshallah, I look forward to answering your
questions on air. Mentally strong people are people who are always ready to embrace change, such as
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I can almost imagine each and every step of the prophets life
was a testament to this very important principle that couldn't I mean, who if he shut and Allah
tells us and sort of the rock man, that each and every day yes, no Memphis, some of those in the
		

			heavens of those in the earth are always turning to Allah asking and making you're seeking things of
him, and things that they know and things that they don't know. Allah seeks and meets the needs of
all of his creation. And in every moment, Allah is engaged in something that brings about change in
everything that is in his dominion, which is the heavens of the earth, that which we know of and
that which is beyond our rationale and understanding. And here Allah subhanho wa Taala wants us to
know that the sign of life is change. Allah tells us in the form on well thought out of the
hardship. When you look at the lifeless Earth, it is Harsha. It is unmoving and quivering. It has no
		

			life to it, either. And Zen naturally has a desert whatever. But when rain our blessing rain
descends upon it, and it soaks up the earth, soaked up by the earth, it begins to vibrate with
light, it has movement and change, and in the alterations were 50 laughing lately when the hurdler a
yard in the change of the day and the 92 are signs to mankind in the sea.
		

			And in the growing from youth into maturity and back into a sense of
		

			maturity that leads us to almost being in a state of infancy once again.
		

			And of course, the change from being of the material that we were created from the elements of the
earth, that as I sit in front of you today, I am made up of carbons and hydrogens and oxygens. But
in fact, when they have been ordered to be as they are in our creation, that the very cellular
processes of splitting the cells is that change that drives light. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam learned about change. In so many ways. He learned being born into the world without a father,
his father passed away before his birth, what it meant to be raised as an orphan. losing his mother
was another big change in his life. So he said, moving in with his grandfather, then his uncle
		

			sallallahu wasallam, being one who was different and changed from the approach of the idolatry that
others took as natural. In their society. He was different solo and he was silent, and abstained.
The profits are SLM was one who brought about change by being one of truth. And one of
trustworthiness, which was different in the society that he lived in. Not everyone was dependable in
that sense.
		

			However, rasulillah as I sell them, experience change in a wholehearted given way, and in that which
befalls him and in all conditions, he remained resilient, and mentally strong, solid, and he was
seldom the change that came when revelation descended upon it.
		

			And no longer was he just responsible for himself and his spouse and his wife and his children. But
now for the whole of humanity to deliver a message, a tumultuous change, the change of hizballah,
from Mecca to Medina, from one environment to another, from one place to another need some Allah How
do you respond to the change of being one who is reciting scripture to one who I necessarily need to
become a warrior and defend the Scripture and the truth in the battles of bed and, and on and on
some of the low sell them was one who was always ready to embrace the challenge, but also the
opportunity that change brings as I was driving home with my children, we were speaking about the
		

			Battle of boyhood my son he asked the question he said Baba there was a moment in history that you
could go back and change it what would it be? And so Pamela I thought about it I said there isn't
anything because everything that we assume that may not be bad good. In fact it always has double
the goodness in it the Battle of what had to happen for the profits I sell them to maintain the
success that we continue to enjoy today. We have a caller on the line that said I'm on a phone
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			My brother I thought it's good to hear from you. It's always good to hear your call first. Michelle
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			Allah He basically no pecan, thank you for those wonderful questions. Melo bring benefit to all
through them. A lot of them to me with regards to the first question with regards to the first
question from our brother, which is a wonderful question really, when you and I kind of think about
a society that we live in today, Islamic societies where Muslims are in large populated populated
numbers, or in societies where Muslims live.
		

			A phobia and minorities, we do see that of course, within our communities and extending from them.
There are things that are objectified, I bonafide, worshiped for lack of better words in a way that
people worship other things. I want you to know that idolatry in the Koran is not just about the
graven image. It's not just about the material images. In fact, Allah Subhana Allah gives us the
story in sort of healthcare of the two men who were competing with each other with their gardens.
And one of them he entered his garden He looked at his friend and he said, my garden city exceeds
your nothing could ever happen to find one that Allah no NTV had he ever that I cannot assume that
		

			anything could have destroyed my garden. And at the end, when Allah shows him that within that blink
of an eye, fire can destruct and water can dry up and your garden can be consumed. Karla Yalla 1011
cushitic the lobby had his last words of lament art, I wish I had not committed any act of joining
others, with my lord Allah subhana wa tada who had he joined with a lot get joined himself, his ego,
his pride, thinking that I am the one who this world and universe is destined to serve, and is the
one who is the object of other people's intent.
		

			Other things that are deified in our days and our times is the celebrity status. So Pamela, we live
in a time of tik tok and Instagram where people who are talented people who are would be considered
imbeciles in other moments in human history are garnering up 1000s. In fact, millions of views are
people voice hearing and watching from a distance, not necessarily in agreement, but in objectivity.
And it's important to note that, you know, the concept of idolatry they can relate to things of
love. In fact, the definition of a bad that for us as Muslims, is that a person has within
themselves can imagine hope be, they have a complete sense of adoration, a complete sense of love.
		

			If you look into the Webster's dictionary under the word, you know, worship, you will see that the
context is loved. They speak about your your worship, you know, the worship of the queen, it's not
that they worship her, but that there's a meant to be a love for, for that the monarch and so on.
When a man really loves a woman, he says, I wear you know, I worship the ground that you walk on. So
that's a powerful kind of imagery. There are so many things that are deified in the world today that
are not necessarily seen as religious delegations. With regard to the second question the habits of
the prophets, I sell them where Allah Subhana Allah says in Surah, Doha alania, did carry a demon
		

			for our did not find you, one who was unprotected and Allah was your Victor, Savior and protector.
So we know this from NACA, and we just give one example so that we can move on to our next caller in
sha Allah, the Prophet salallahu it was seldom one of the greatest tragedies in his life, was also
one of the greatest victories of his life, which is the Battle of good and the loss of his uncle,
hands on your loved one. So the law, the prophets, I send them in in receiving what would be
considered a military defeat of his of his habit, not of himself, but of the Sahaba because they
disobeyed his order became the stepping stone to the greatness of the oma of learning that our
		

			success is only through adherence and obedience and strictness. In following the words of Allah and
the Sunnah of his Navy Mohammed Salah Hardy was said, we have another caller on the line as salaam
alaikum. Caller How can I help?
		

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			people say that it's better to go to sleep, and then wake up and do the prayer. But what happened if
you can't sleep? suffer from insomnia? You know, can you still do sooner before you go to sleep? All
right, doesn't come off here. Man lots of kind of data reward you for your intention feels
fulfilled. You're a bad day and blesses with similar to it. I'll begin with a second question to
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			The concept of soon that is that we seek to model the behavior of the prophets I send them, we know
from the life of the prophets, I send them that he preferred to pray after resting, and then would
wake up in the early hours of the morning, after the midnight hour. So we know that this was a habit
of the prophets, I seldom, nevertheless, that doesn't mean that the Prophet did not pray earlier, we
know from the data that you share with your loved one, that there were moments when the Prophet
would pray all of the night or half of the night, as Allah says in the Quran in surah, Al mismo.
		

			Pray half of the night. So Lola already was saying, so we know that you are allowed, you definitely
are allowed to pray before you go to sleep. And this was said to be a matter of no contact with your
lover, and who, by the prophets element, some of the other Sahaba. There were others who have who
struggled to pray by waking up. So they're often instructed and said, well, you can pray before you
sleep. The second question, which you're asking is, what if I done my prayer, assuming that I will
fall asleep and then I found that I couldn't sleep, so I decided to pray again? Well, there's
different opinions amongst our own amount. One opinion, of course, is that you pray one more rocker
		

			to break your width, and then pray as many as you like it to four and so on, and then end with one
more width at the end of the night. And that seems to be an easy kind of process in sha Allah. And I
pray that Allah Subhana, Allah facilitates for you your worship in lantana. Even if you don't do
that, if you just continue with your prayer and do one more with it at the end of the night, Allah
knows your intent, knows your function and practice and May Allah Subhana Allah excepted from you
and remember us in your da Allah. I mean, just like a latte for that wonderful question. We returned
back, we returned back to our mental health discussion, we said that mentally strong people are
		

			always ready to embrace change and the prophets I send them was a vivid example of this. Another
important principle is that mentally strong people are not focused on distractions. So there are so
many things in life that will pop up. But the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us to focus
on that which is of greater priority. I mean before that, which is a secondary priority. And that's
something that as Muslims we have in our house. So for example, if you were to come into the masjid,
and I'm leading the people in salado, Asia, and you came into the masjid, you know, as we are in our
second rocker, you don't begin in the end of the masjid and pray to rock as sooner and then join us
		

			on that. What you would do is that you would come up to the front line, join us in Santa and do your
prayer. And that would expiate the need for praying, you're suiting up prayer of greeting the
masjid. as Muslims, we always focus on the priorities and we don't get distracted. Now so how to
love there are so many distractions that seek to lead us away from Allah and Allah actually
mentioned the word distraction in Nepal and or its meaning in the English language in Nepal and
Allah Subhana Allah speaks in particular, about Salatu joumana were either right or left when lt
gelatin in fondue la hat, whatever cuca call this will have that one day and this was the reason for
		

			salting Do you want descending the Friday prayer being an obligation in that sense? One day the
Prophet was speaking on the day you could put to do more. And who would ever turn away from that?
Well, so Pamela, there was a time of famine in Medina, all of the businessmen had sent their money
to be traded on their behalf in Damascus. And just as hope within Juma I began, just as the Prophet
was about to speak, they heard the drums and they heard the whistles and the shout of the coffee
that that caravan entering Medina, and everybody, all of their wealth, all of their investments, all
of their food, everything that they've been waiting for months has just arrived and they stood up
		

			and they left. And they didn't think about the gravity that they left the profits I sell them when
he's about to get food but to do more on the left to gather their belongings and to seek their
profit. So Allah revealed
		

			what either Oh, when, when the here level, meaning use it and distractions and entertainment, I will
teach out all 10 or the prospect of business and making a good deal and good money. They will leave
the prayers even if it was Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam until this lesson was taught. And
Allah Subhana Allah tells us not to be distracted, and manual by noon, Xena, the wealth and your
children, your family, they beautify life, but they are the beautification. They're not that they're
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			The structure of life. And it becomes important for us to focus on the things that allow us to grow
the fruits that we want. It's the trunk that is most important to the tree, not the fruit that will
fall off, and another will grow in its place. And if you and I keep focused on the distractions,
then we miss the importance of irrigating and protecting the trunk of our Islam, the trunk of our
faith, and the righteousness that we seek to continue to increase and flourish within our homes and
communities. as Muslims becomes important for us to think of that, and learn that from the province
I send to those who are mentally strong, their mind can focus on that which is most important.
		

			They're able to focus on savings, they're able to focus on finishing their education, they're able
to focus on being
		

			able to help others although they are in need of help, being able to share from their wealth because
they trust Allah will return it and not just counting every penny in that sense. They're able to
focus and not be distracted by fears or sadness or a moment emotional upheaval in their life.
Because they know that there is a greater picture in their life. There's a greater scheme, and there
is so much opportunity that still remains. I hope you'll continue with me after the short break and
Chatelet five minutes or so we will return back to with more Islamic q&a on Islam channel. Your
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