Yasmin Mogahed – Beyond Burnout – Overcoming Stress in your life

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			someone can benefit there's this panel I was speaking to somebody about a really stressful situation
that was going on and we were in a grocery store recently. And we were looking around us And
subhanAllah everyone's face looked stress. I don't know if it's the weather I don't know if it's the
the climate change or whatever is happening but Subhanallah I'm seeing so much anxiety so much
stretch so much, you know, dissatisfaction on the faces around me so I hope that I'm sure many of
you can connect connect to that as well and and maybe you're feeling some kind of burdens that you
need to release NSLDS meet as mashallah a master at this topic which is why she mashallah teaches a
		

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DISA How are you doing today?
		

			Ronnie Coleman Stella and welcome to Allah hamdulillah How are you have sir Alhamdulillah I am doing
really well. Masha Allah, I've been enjoying all the crazy traveling that you've been doing around
the globe, especially in the last little bit. But I hear you're back in the States now settled in
the Midwest, how does it feel after all the hecticness to kind of come back home.
		

			You know what, there, there is beauty in all states. I really believe that. And Hamdulillah I do
like to have some settled time at home. I'm actually not home home. But I'm in my hometown. So it's
close enough. I'm actually in Wisconsin, where my mother lives. And as many of you know, my father
just recently passed away like Hamill so I'm here spending some time with my mother and, you know,
it's it's, it's it's bittersweet to be back home. So you know, there's always
		

			there's always beauty in everything. But there's always difficulty sometimes as well. I can imagine,
may Allah make it easy for you and your family and reward your father agenda. I mean, you know, but
let me and I don't know if you heard of that, that I was just sharing earlier that I feel like this
This topic is so relevant right now because you see it on the faces of everyone that that that you
pass by, and Subhanallah if you don't address, you know, the exhaustion and the mental kind of
weight of all this stress, it can kind of push you to the breaking point so I'm excited for you to
address this inshallah. In today's topic beyond burnout, overcoming stress in your life, and give us
		

			some skills to equip us to better face this inshallah. So I'm going to pass it to you and we will be
in the chat. We'll take some questions and show at the end of the session, but Bismillah Let's kick
it off. Okay, thank you so much. As salam o aleikum, everyone and all the villa human a shape on a
regime Smilla Rahmanir Rahim o salat wa salam ala Rasulillah while annual site big mine from the
sharkleave Saudi or your Sierra Leone Omri. Well, hello Dr. Millis Ania. Kohli. So I was thinking
about this topic as I was driving today and I was thinking about how you know what, what would I
want to share in terms of how can people deal with their lives? You know, at first the the title of
		

			this topic was different. And I actually requested that we changed the title, the title, or at some
point was how to live a stress free life. And I was like, we need to change that topic. Um,
		

			We need to change that title rather. And the reason why I said that is there is no such thing as a
stress free life do we don't live in Jannah, we live in dunya. And that's sort of my number one,
take home, I would say. So what I wanted to leave you with, in our short time here, you know, trying
to help myself and you because this is a journey that we're all in together. And that is, how to
manage our lives, it's more about how to, to do our best with SN, there is no way that we're going
to have a stress free life. But how can we start to, to be able to manage and even flourish despite
the obstacles, so I thought that I wanted to share five points with you. And the very first one has
		

			to do with, you know, sort of why I changed the original title. And that is that the hard times will
always come that hard times are part of the nature of dunya, that there will be times where we will
be tested. And there will be times where we will be under pressure. And the purpose of those tests.
And the purpose of that pressure is not ever to hurt or destroy the believer, but rather Allah
subhanaw taala tells us that the purpose of a tests and the purpose of pressure, and even the
purpose of stress when it is managed properly, is actually to strengthen us, to purify us and to
elevate us. And if you look at this, from a, you know, even a sort of secular perspective, or even a
		

			literal physical perspective, if a person wants to grow in strength, or if a person wants to
increase their
		

			their perseverance in a physical sense, right, their endurance, what does that person have to go
through, that person has to go through a process of lifting heavier weight, a process of training, a
process of going to the gym, there's a process that that person has to undergo, in order to build
that resilience and to build that endurance. For example, if you decide that you want to run a
marathon, a person doesn't just wake up and say, I'm going to run a marathon today. But there is a
an entire process of training to run a marathon. And that training involves putting your body
literally under stress, right, you have to, you know, train your body by going to the gym by running
		

			smaller periods, you know that there is there's a process of getting yourself to a point where you
have enough endurance, and enough perseverance to be able to run a marathon. Now that process
doesn't involve sitting on the couch as I am right now. And getting comfortable. That process
involves work it improv, it involves struggle. And so stress at a sort of an essential level is
needed, in order for us to grow. If we never experienced any kind of resistance, or any kind of
stress or any kind of lifting that that we have to do, we wouldn't be able to grow and we wouldn't
grow and we wouldn't become stronger. And so the first sort of principle that we need to realize is
		

			that the hard times will come and that it is necessary that it is not only that, well, you know,
it's kind of like one of these things that you want to avoid, but you have to go through but it
actually is an essential part of our growth and an essential part of our development in this life.
It's an essential part of our purification as well. And so you know, I'll just leave you with sort
of an analogy about about this, this particular point. And that is if you think about the idea of a
forest fire so a forest fire is something that we don't usually think as a good thing we don't think
of as a good thing we usually hear about forest fires at a point when they've gotten out of control
		

			or they've they've reached residents and you know, neighborhoods where they've started to become a
danger to us. But if you actually go and you study forest fires, forest fires are hard in fact
essential for the growth of the forest itself, which is just blew my mind when I found this out. The
fact that the fire itself isn't a problem, because actually trees and forests require some level of
fire in order to clear out the the forest floor and make space for new vegetation. So it's actually
necessary. The fire is at some level is
		

			necessary. So when does it become a problem? Well, it becomes a problem when it's out of control,
right? The fire itself is essential to growth. But it's when it gets out of control that it causes
destruction. So now the point is, how do I keep from allowing my forest fires in my own life? From
getting out of control? In other words, how do I keep from the stress, becoming out of control or
destroying me instead of growing me? That's, that's the essential question, right? Where, you know,
some level of lifting weight will make you stronger and thrive. Whereas if you put too much you can
break your back. Right? And so the question is, number one, is realizing that the hard times will
		

			come in that some level of struggle in some level of lifting and some level of
		

			pressure is necessary, not only is it inevitable, but it is actually necessary for our growth and
our own thriving. So that's number one. Number two principle is that nothing is intrinsically
difficult, or easy. In its own like, like on its own right, intrinsically, but rather, how difficult
and how easy something is, is actually dependent on how much help or how much we are,
		

			depending on ourselves. So how much help we get from Allah subhanaw taala, versus how much we are
dependent upon ourselves. So let me explain that further. So any given situation, let's take the
analogy of the weight that we have to carry in this life, the weight that we have to lift that,
that, that weight, so in in the physical world, we would say that, okay, it's easy to lift five
pounds, it's not so easy to lift 50 pounds, right. But there is another factor here that determines
how easy it is to lift that weight. And that is, well, do I have a bodybuilder coming and helping
me? Do I have some tool? Do I have a forklift that's actually lifting that weight, or am I lifting
		

			it on my own. And this analogy then extends to in the spiritual sense, how difficult or how easy a
situation will be in my life is dependent upon how much help I get from Allah, and how much help I
seek from a lot, and how dependent I am on myself versus how dependent I am on Allah subhanaw taala.
So going back to the analogy, if I have to lift, you know, this really, really heavy thing. So for
example, I'll give you a real life, personal example. While I was out of the country, while I was in
Malaysia, actually, there was a bad hurricane that hit the East Coast of the United States, and I
live in the southeast, part of the US in North Carolina. And apparently, while we were in Malaysia,
		

			actually, while I was teaching, there was some very heavy winds that hit my city. And by the time I
finished my seminar in Malaysia, we had received like a video and some photos from our neighbors.
And I was like, like, my jaw dropped at what had happened while I was in Malaysia. So one of the
trees and I'm talking about like a giant tree, very tall, I don't even know how tall this tree was,
had fallen in our backyard. And the way it fell was away from the house.
		

			Because had this Tree Fallen in the other direction, it would have smashed through our home, right
through the roof and into the home. And so I looked at this picture, and I was just like, I just, I
mean, I literally gasped because the entire tree had just become up rooted and was just lying down
in our backyard. And it was, and it had fallen just a way, you know, in the direction away from the
house where they land him. So
		

			so many lessons from this, obviously, you know, main lesson is that protection only comes from the
last panel that we weren't there, there was nothing we could have done to influence which way this
tree fell, there was nothing we could have done to influence the wind, the direction of the wind,
the speed of the wind, the intensity of the hurricane, but Subhanallah this was completely from the
protection of Allah subhanaw taala so it's a very, very good reminder of the fact that we are always
desperate for the protection of Allah no matter where we are or how safe we think
		

			We are we literally are not in control. Only Allah subhanaw taala is in control. But going off of
that, we now have this giant tree that we have to remove from our backyard, right? So how do I do
that? Well, I can go and I can be like, Okay, I'm gonna lift it, right? If I try to lift this tree
myself, I'm gonna break completely it. I mean, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll crush me, if I try to lift
this tree myself, I can break my back, I can become completely crushed by this tree. But if I hire
someone who uses a forklift to who has now this help, to lift the treat, Is it heavy for me, it's
still the same job that needs to be done. I could either try to lift it myself, or I can get someone
		

			to get a tool, you know, to get to get this forklift. And that have that forklift, lift up the tree
and take care of the tree. Now, that's no weight for me, right? That's, that's not a struggle for
me, even though it's the exact same outcome. So when we go through, you know, stress in our life or
we go through difficulty in our life, we can either try to lift it ourselves, and basically break
our backs or get crushed. Or we can look to Allah subhanaw taala for help, and look to Allah
subhanaw taala for ease and assistance. You know, this is a lesson that we're taught every single
day of our lives, at least five times a day, we call out to Allah subhanaw taala Yeah, can I go do
		

			what ya can assign you alone? Do we worship? And you alone? Do we seek help from next time? So one
essential lesson here one essential principle in terms of dealing with stress everyday from small to
big? Is what Yeah, can a Stein that you alone, do we seek help from the esteana part? We have to
seek help from Allah, we cannot depend on ourselves. And you know, you think about that analogy of
that tree, right? If I'm going to try to lift it myself, I will break my back, I will, I will get
crushed. But if I get up in lifting that becomes easy for me. And so this is the second principle
that we have to realize and that is that, that it's really summed up in one of the drawers that
		

			we're taught to say, during times of difficulty and that is Allah melesa Hello Illa magia Alka who
said that Oh Allah, there is nothing nothing is easy, except what you make easy Allahumma Allah
Salah Illa magia Alka who salah, O Allah, there is nothing easy except what you make easy wear and
tear Jalil has an either ship to Salah and you can make what is difficult, what looks externally
difficult, feel easy, if you will. This is a very profound concept and a very important concept to
understand. And that is that nothing is is difficult or easy in and of itself right and
intrinsically, but rather its difficulty or ease is dependent upon how much help Allah I have from
		

			Allah subhanaw taala how much assistance has Allah given me has Allah enabled me to lift this has
Allah lifted it for me has a lot tied my heart as he did for the mother of Musa alayhis salam that
that that concept that were taught in the Quran when Allah Allah and robot Nala called behind Allah
says that had we not tied her heart together, that Allah is teaching us here that even the most
difficult situations like putting your baby into the river, and just putting your trust in Allah
that even that situation she was enabled like she was she was able to handle it only because Allah
tied her heart together. And so what this teaches us is that if we have the help of Allah subhanaw
		

			taala in our lives, you know from the small to the big from the from the nuisances in our life, all
the way to the to the to the huge calamities, that if Allah helps us that he can make what is
difficult, feel easy. And that's what this teaches us. Hola, hola. Hola, Salah Illa Magill Sana our
Oh ALLAH nothing is easy except what you make easy what and that and that you can make what actually
looks or seems difficult feel easy, if you will. Well, when data journal has an either chips or
Santa that what is actually difficult or seems difficult. You can make it easy if you will. So we
ask Allah subhanaw taala by this dot and several other do as you know there's not enough time right
		

			now to get into all of these doors. But the there are, this is a concept that we have to understand
which is that I should not rely on myself in my in anything that I do in my life but that an ISP
		

			especially when I'm going through hard times to seek the help and aid and assistance of Allah
subhanaw taala. And that will make it lighter. And that will make it easier for me and you just, you
know, think of the analogy of that tree, they're lifted yourself, or you and you break your break
your back along the way or you, you get a forklift. And so we ask Allah subhanaw taala, to be our
forklift, right to to lift our our burdens and to make them light upon us. Because if I have that
forklift, or I have someone driving that forklift, this burden of removing this tree becomes light
on me. And that's what we asked from Allah subhanaw taala, to make our burdens light. So that's
		

			number two. Number three, is that we have to lean into the good or change or manage our focus. Now
what this is about is this is basically a summary of the whole concept of gratitude, daily practice
of gratitude, because our lives change depending on what we focus on in our lives. You know, as I
say, many times what you focus on grows, and so if you are the type of person who just basically
trains your mind to focus on the good, to focus on the things that you love the things that are
gifts and blessings in your life, and you show gratitude for those things, then those things will
grow, not only will they grow, because God will give you more what it adds another bucola in Chicago
		

			tonight, as he then Netcom, Allah says that, that if you are thankful, I will increase you. So not
only does Allah give us more when we show gratitude, but also from a psychological perspective, when
we show gratitude, and when we focus on our blessings, they actually grow in our own minds. So we
see them as being bigger, we, we experience them as being as being all encompassing. So we don't, we
don't see.
		

			We don't, we're not enlarging our difficulties, we're enlarging our blessings. But it works the
other way as well. So if we are the type of person who focuses only on the things we don't like, on
our problems, everything that's missing, you know, everything is not good enough in our lives.
Sometimes we only focus on everything that's not good enough in ourselves to we do this to
ourselves, and we do a lot of sort of self flagellation, you know, beating ourselves up where, like,
we could, we could have a lot of good qualities and a lot of strengths. But instead, we just focus
on that one thing that we don't like, you know, we do this, you know, in our physical appearance,
		

			but we also do this with our, with our, with our, with our strengths and our weaknesses, that
sometimes, by focusing on the things we don't like in ourselves, we're also enlarging them, and we
become sort of, they can become very overwhelming. Now, I'm not saying that we don't try to improve,
we definitely should. But it's very dangerous to focus on the negative, it's very dangerous to focus
only on the things that are missing the things that are, you know, not as we want them. And so we
start, they start to look bigger, and we start to become a lot. And when something looks bigger, it
obviously becomes heavier, and it starts to weigh on us. And so I will feel our life will feel like
		

			heavier, our problems start to feel a lot heavier. And so it's very, very important to actively
force ourselves, even if we're not in this habit, and we're not used to it maybe because of our
upbringing, maybe because of a lot of modeling that we saw in our in our parents, that we have to
train our brains to focus on the good to focus on the blessings because in the Malossi Islam, Allah
always gives ease along with the difficulties in nut Mal, through us with the difficulty is ease in
a very general, you know, sense. So, and Allah repeats this, right? So it's important that we're,
we're, we're training ourselves to show gratitude, to focus on the good and not to be the type of
		

			person who only focuses on what is negative, or what's missing in our lives.
		

			The fourth principle is not to lose hope. So,
		

			you know, a lot of times we can become very exhausted, you know, like, the, the title implies
burnout, right? You know, I've been doing this and it's just not working. You know, I've been trying
for this outcome and it's just I keep failing, no matter how hard I try, I just keep falling. You
know, and it's easy to become discouraged. And you know, I, I personally get a lot of inspiration
from the story of hedgehog because hedgehog, this is a story of a woman who was in a very, very
impossible situation and she could have given up you know, she she, she tried looking on sofa for
any sign of life or any sign of
		

			help any sign of anything, she found nothing. And she could have given up but she didn't. She ran to
the next mountain, which is Manuel write. Again, she could have given up after that. But she didn't,
she went back to self up. And then she could have given up then she didn't, she went back to
mandala. And she could have given up then, but she didn't, she went back to suffer. And she did this
seven times. So there's a lot to reflect on you that that Allah is teaching us look at the look at
this woman who was all alone in the desert with her baby. And both are like, you know, almost at
their death there from dehydration, right. And yet, she never gave up. She went between Safa and
		

			Marwa not once or twice, but seven times. And so there's a lesson here about not giving up, not
losing hope, and continuing to strive, even when we are not seeing immediate results, you know, use
this example, you know, when a person goes and plant a tree,
		

			they planted the tree and maybe after six months, they don't see any result. You know, it's not
working. It's not working, maybe you know, another year, that maybe if the seed is under the ground,
say
		

			you may not see any results. And you may think that it isn't working, but it's growing. And there's
a process that it has to go through. So
		

			don't lose hope and become discouraged because you're not seeing immediate results, you know, to
continue to strive like soft, like like, like hedging on insulin between Safa and Marwa you know,
sometimes that side, you know the side needs to strive sometimes that side has to be over and over
and over. And it's part of the process, you know, Allah subhanaw taala teaches us that things
require a process, you know, when when a baby is being developed inside the womb of the mother, it
you know, Allah could have just said be in it is and you know, a woman just gives birth after a day,
Allah could have done that. But Allah subhanaw taala designed it. So it would take nine long, maybe
		

			sometimes difficult months. This is part of the process. And so this is the Sunnah of Allah that
everything requires a process. And sometimes, you know, when a woman you know, first conceit when
when when the woman is pregnant, and is just at the very, very beginning of her pregnancy,
		

			you might look at her and be like, there's nothing happening. You know what I mean? Like, and then
you see her after three weeks, four weeks a month, and you're like, it's not working, you know,
there's nothing really happening there. But the reality is that there is there is something
happening, but it is unseen. And there is growth, and there is change, but it is unseen. And so
sometimes the change in our lives, the growth in our lives is unseen, just like that seed that was
under the ground. It is growing, and it is changing, but we can't see it at that point. So you know,
same thing with that with the, with the embryo that is developing, but you can't see it. And you
		

			might think, oh, there's nothing happy, you don't have an ultrasound, you might not even think
anything's happening. And so within our lives, sometimes the change in the growth is unseen, but
that doesn't mean that it isn't happening. And so we have to be able to sort of persevere through
the lack of results, and sometimes through the unseen. And to realize that everything requires a
process and sometimes we're not going to see immediate results. Finally, principle five, number
five, is that this too shall pass. And every single thing in this life is temporary. And so you
know, at this, while this reality can sometimes give us you know, sadness, well, the good things
		

			aren't gonna last but neither are the hard things. So everything about this life is temporary, the
good and the bad. And so no storm lasts forever. You know, just like the sun is not always going to
be out and sometimes the sun is going to set.
		

			Similarly, it isn't going to be night forever. It's never going to be night forever. So if you are
in a situation right now where it just feels really dark, and it just feels like there's so much
pressure and it's really dark. Realize that if you study the nature of this life if you study the
Sunnah of Allah subhanaw taala no night lasts forever, the sun always rises again. And that is the
nature of this life that it is always moving, it is always changing and that everything eventually
returns to Allah subhanaw taala coolamon Allah has done every single thing is passing away.
Everything is temporary. So this should give us a comfort in our difficult times as well because no
		

			difficult time will last forever.
		

			and it will always change and it will always it will always become in sha Allah better because just
like the night that turns in today our difficulties will also be alleviated. So, you know, getting
through it is part of getting through it is being able to persevere and then also continue to have
hope, because this too shall pass. Clinically. Heather was Dr. Ali, welcome in our pura Rahim
clinical OB hendak Chateau La La Land to Sakurako to Boulais.
		

			Jessica la sera, sera, I feel like the lessons there stack and stack and stack on top of one
another. I love this course every time it launches. And for those who don't know, this is just a
snapshot of a lot of the topics that we saw there yesterday, which I had covered in her online
course with a Maghrib Institute titled to transform to principles of spiritual development, the QR
code is on the screen, and it's linked as well in the chats and in the description and everything
but this course Subhanallah I feel like a lot of people wait too long to heal their, you know, their
traumas, and there's so panels so much that people struggle through, but healing has to start with
		

			yourself, it has to come with this kind of self realization. And then when you bring Allah subhanaw
taala in it, when you, you know work towards a lot with your healing, everything else falls into
place, whether it's your emotions, whether it's your relationships with other people, whether it's
your relationship with the dean, it's all interconnected. Subhanallah so when you're speaking, I'm
thinking of like 20 Different things this applies to in my life. And I'm sure a lot of people are
doing the same in the chat as well. But I've hadn't been aware that we have this resource through
this course transformed, and I do encourage everybody to register while you can, because this is an
		

			amazing on demand course. But the caveat is that it's closing in a couple of days. And I know
apologies for those who just found out sometimes we just bring it on you but and hamdulillah it is
available on demand. So you guys can access the content and the knowledge inshallah for lifetime,
but you do have to register in next couple of days so that you can be part of the student community
and you can start the healing process inshallah. Now, so that I know, there's gonna be a lot of
questions like there always are during these sessions, so we'll see if we can take a handful of
them. So if anyone has questions on today's topic beyond burnout, overcoming stress in your life
		

			with this is an image I had dropped them into the chat, we'll select a few of them, wherever you
guys are, if it's YouTube or Facebook, just drop it into the chat, and we will find the questions,
and we will address them in Sharla. But in the meantime, so that we launched this course, a couple
of times, and Hamza before we have a dedicated transformed community online. What is your favorite
part about teaching this course? I know, it's been recorded, and it's been professionally edited.
But what's what was the best part of this course for you?
		

			Honestly, I love teaching this course, because of the aha moments that I think it brings. For a lot
of people I can speak personally, you know, the process of learning these things for me wasn't very
easy. I
		

			you know,
		

			human beings, and not the most.
		

			You know, like, I'm one of those types of people who it's like, you can tell, you can tell me
something. And it's like, I have to, I have to learn it myself, you know, like one of those kinds of
kids. And
		

			I think
		

			y'all, y'all are pieces of work. I have those in my life. I know you're talking, I know your dad or
your siblings.
		

			Yeah, you know, it's like, it's like, you know,
		

			for better or for worse. So anyways, you know, I always wish that like I can, I can share these
lessons so that I can save a lot of other people the the heartache that I went through to learn
them. And you know, I think I think for a lot of people that is the case, I think they learn. I
think that a lot of these lessons that I teach in transformed and I teach in my book, reclaim your
heart and in my new book, Healing the emptiness these are life lessons that I don't, I don't want
other people to go through the the types of pain you have to go through to learn knees
		

			on your own, you know, and so I think for me, my favorite part about teaching it is to try to help
people from continuing to suffer, like, like to how to try to help people stop their own suffering,
because a lot of what we don't realize is although Pain is inevitable in this life, but suffering
doesn't have to be inevitable. And suffering is something that sometimes, oftentimes we contribute
to our own suffering. And we don't realize why we're doing it, we're actually contributing, causing
our own suffering. And there are and these are lessons that if we can learn them, we can actually
alleviate a lot of our suffering. You know, I'm not like I said, I started off there's no such thing
		

			as a stress free life. There's this there's no such thing as a pain free life. But suffering is a
whole different thing. And I think a lot of people are actually going through a lot of suffering in
their life, and they don't realize what they're doing to contribute to it.
		

			Yeah, and I feel like a lot of times people look for healing and like really quick shots and look
for like quick solutions to things like this. So they'll watch a quick video and they'll get a bit
of a high or they'll look for, you know, like a quick quote or this and that, but they'll still like
under the surface be struggling with things, they just won't, they don't have the time to invest in
therapy, or they're not, they're not taking the time to take care of that aspect of their lives. And
it's affecting everything. But it's really hard. I think nowadays, especially 100. Another
conversation, the doors have been opened, I think sisters and brothers are tackling some of the
		

			emotional and psychological and things that are distressing them, and realizing that they need to
treat this these issues. But there's, there's a lot that can be done. And what I love about
transformed is that I've come to that it's a safe space, it's a private community. So only those who
are registered, are having access to the content and to the community itself. And that as they're
going and navigating through all these modules in these lessons, there's some amazing ones. Some of
my favorites, I just kind of pulled out or you know, healthy and unhealthy attachments and how to
protect and nourish your heart and dealing with depression and anxiety and broken hearts and
		

			practical steps like we did today to deal with stress and challenging relationships, children in
laws, spouses, all that fun stuff, is that while they're going through all that if they have
questions, or if they're still not 100% sure about anything, they can access you through live q&a
sessions that happen though with the rest of the student audience. So that's a beautiful part of the
course. Those are live, but they're recorded as well. So if you can't make it if you're in a funky
time, even always, inshallah catch up with the rest of the community that was that, I see that there
are some questions that are submitted through these chats, they're going way too fast for me, but I
		

			caught a few of Hamdulillah. And our amazing social media manager was able to grab some as well. So
I'm going to quickly jump in and grab one of the questions that I see. And we'll close off in just a
few minutes with you and show up. So first question is, what is the best way to deal with this
stress and extreme anxiety?
		

			So there are several doors to dealing with this. I actually have an entire section in healing the
emptiness where I just give list lists upon lists of specific doors in Arabic and in English.
transliteration, basically, doors that are prescribed by Allah and His messenger for anxiety for
depression for hard times, but I'll just give you a few one that the prophets I send them
recommended as the DA of a Eunice la salaam La ilaha illa Anta Subhana iniquity terminal volume in
that this was the DUA that unicel is Salam said when he was in the belly of the whale and or the
giant fish and Allah subhanaw taala saved him. La ilaha illa Anta Subhana Allah iniquity amount of
		

			volume there is nothing worthy of worship but you exalted as you I was among the wrong doors, and
this door the prophets I seldom actually quoted as being one of the best doors for times of
difficulty there da of Eunice la Salem another door is the one that I mentioned in my talk which was
Allahu melesa Allah Illa merger alto sila who entertains you alone has an either should say Allah Oh
ALLAH There's nothing easy except what you make easy and if you will, you can make what is
difficult, feel easy. Another two that were told by the prophets I send them is a in a hadith he
says that there is no individual who experiences any amount of depression difficulty sadness, even
		

			the you know, just any kind of distress except that they say this door and it is alleviated for them
Allahumma in the abdomen in Abdic ematic nausea TV addict Malden fear Pocomoke Island via Kedah UK
and it goes on I'll just generally translated and then inshallah we can share it. This is also
something that we you know, these are all resources that we will share and I'll have for those who
register for this class I'll also have some live q&a is where we'll be discussing these things and
and and I'll be taking questions but I will also be giving more resources inshallah these are also
available in my book in specifically in the new book healing the emptiness because I give a very I
		

			it's like a handbook of many different doors along with the translation, but this particular one
Aloma in the abdomen begins with Oh Allah I am your slave, the child of your male and female slave.
So if you look up this dua and you you know inshallah we'll we can share it as well. But if you
Google it, and you look up that translation at the beginning, it'll bring you this da but it
continues on after you. You know, you ask Allah Subhana Allah, many Abdullah Abdullah Ignatz Ignacia
to be yedek Maldon Thea hockomock Agilent, via Kedah.
		

			So you're asking Allah Subhana Allah by all his beautiful names and your exalting Allah subhanaw
taala. And then you're saying after all of that, you're asking that Allah subhanaw taala would make
the Quran the spring of your heart, the end the alleviate or of your district, your side
		

			Notice and it's just such a beautiful to add because it's asking Allah to alleviate your sadness to
give your heart this like ease and to do it by his color and by his dickheads. So it's it's such a
beautiful comprehensive DUA and and we're told by the prophesy send them that this door alleviates
any kind of distress depression anxiety etc. Another one just really quickly is La hawla wala Quwata
11 that were told in a hadith that, that this word that this statement La hawla wala Quwata illa
know that there is no change in state and no power or strength except by Allah is actually a cure
for 99 ailments and the least of them are, is stress.
		

			Beautiful physical affair, so that and that's one thing I do love about your teaching style. And
Michelle in the course as well is that you give us a struggle a pain, you give us a story that goes
along with it. And there's always the odd there's always a solution from the Quran, or the Sunnah
Alhamdulillah that we have, that we're left with. So it's not just an inspiration, it's actually
something we can practically incorporate into our lives. So just like a prayer for that. I have
another question. And shall we'll take a couple more before we close. And the next question is, what
if the people that you love are giving you stress and you cannot leave them? What should a Muslim I
		

			do?
		

			Well, this is a very multi dimensional question. Because on the one hand, the and by the way, I'll
just say this, there isn't a single seminar, I think I've done anywhere in the world where I didn't
get this question in some in some form or another. And that is because obviously, in our DNA, we
have this concept of
		

			slugterra him, you know, keeping and
		

			connecting the ties of kinship, very important. We have a concept of been unwed a day between
wedding day being kind and dutiful to our parents send to our parents, these are all very important
concepts. But then then there's the struggle of what happens when you know, maybe a parent is
abusive or a family member is abusive, how what do you do in that case? So there are two issues
here. One is when it is a family member that you cannot divorce, right? So like a parent, a sibling,
etc.
		

			In those cases, yes, there is the principle of solid Rahim and the importance of solid Rahaman
better and where they didn't validate that, that are just fundamental concepts in our deen, you
know, keeping the ties of kinship and being kind and dutiful to our parents. These are fundamental
principles. However, self preservation comes before that where if there is a harm that will come to
you, then you have to protect yourself and your family from that harm. Protect yourself and your
children from them harm depending on on what the situation is. So what I say to people is, you know,
you do your best to keep the ties of kinship and not have to cut those ties. But at the same time,
		

			you don't put yourself in harm's way you don't put yourself in a situation where you're being
harmed, either physically or psychologically, emotionally or spiritually, okay? When it comes to a
situation where it isn't a family member, but maybe it's a spouse, you know, we don't we don't say
that you put up with with abuse. We don't say that, you know, this is another concept which I
discussed and transformed. But the sort of toxic definition of Sabra that we sorted that we have a
lot of times taught in our in our some of our circles, and that is this idea that you're supposed to
turn the other cheek or you're supposed to put up with that subber means to put up with abuse, this
		

			is absolutely false. This is not what silver means. It is not from our deen to allow yourself to be
abused to allow your family or your children to be abused. Your children are an Amana and you will
be asked about how you protected them from harm. And so we are not supposed to keep our selves or
our or our children in a situation where there is harm. And it is not better for the children. You
know, a lot of times I hear women all over the worlds you know, saying that we're you know, we
stayed for the sake of the children, even men, we stayed for the sake of the children. But the
children end up suffering the most when they are living in abusive or toxic homes. And so it's
		

			extremely important that we don't put up with this and call it sub, you know, this idea that Sabra
means to drink poison and to keep a smile on your face that is not the meaning of sub, that we have
to actually take action to protect ourselves in our families if there is harm. So you know, whether
that is
		

			a spouse or it is a family member, either way, we are not supposed to be or continue to be in a
situation that is bringing harm.
		

			Just like a lottery, so that's a panela. I'm very glad that you two Ed took off a little bit and
address some of those difficulties. There's a couple more
		

			questions that are coming in? I'm gonna take one last one. And I'm sorry to those who submitted.
Michelle, some amazing questions have been submitted. But keep in mind, we do have live q&a sessions
in the course to tackle a lot of these concepts after you guys have watched the modules that we saw
that has created for you. The next and the final question for now is
		

			what is sorry, I've been making the offer a few years should I give up? Or should I keep making this
thought?
		

			Well, I don't know what the DUA is. And Allah subhanaw taala knows best. So what I would say is, you
know, you ask Allah subhanaw taala for what you want, obviously, we're asking we should be asking a
lot obviously for Halal things, but we never know what is best for us either. Right? So on the one
hand, you continue to ask Allah dua itself is worship right, a dry hole, a bad or a door Am I bad
that dua is in and of itself worship, dua is the head or mind of worship. So dua itself is a is the
essence is like one of the
		

			one of the most important essences of of worship because it brings us closer to Allah subhanaw
taala. So the most important outcome of July isn't necessarily whether or not Allah gives us what we
asked. But the most important outcome of dua is that actually, I'm speaking to God and I'm getting
closer to him through that speaking, and through that intimacy, and that closeness of speaking to
Allah subhanaw taala is especially in a state of need. So when I'm in a state of need, it makes me
more open and more receptive to getting closer to Allah subhanaw taala. See, Allah's light is always
there. But the question is, how receptive Am I to that light, how you know, how permeable how
		

			permeable are my senses to that light of that divine light. And so I become more more absorbent and
more able to receive the light of Allah subhanaw taala when I am,
		

			sometimes when I'm in need, and when I'm in need, I call out to Allah subhanaw taala in a much more
humble way, and in a much more, almost desperate way. And that brings me closer to Him, that allows
his love and His mercy and His light to penetrate me deeper. And so that actually becomes the best
outcome of the DA so you can keep making the DA, knowing that whether or not you get that specific
thing in the form that you're asking, you're still getting something greater, through that da
		

			does that good luck HERSA for spending some time with us today and tackling this topic and so many
others, mashallah, in this short bit of time that we've had, I do want to encourage everyone who's
listening to make sure that if you've benefited at all, one is to make sure you share this content
with others or so many people who are hurting and who need healing, and this is inshallah a great
resource for them. And of course, to register with the QR code that you see on screen or in the
description or in the chat, wherever you are to transformed online with wasabi SV, which I had, was
that I still remember last year. Part of the cute part of the class, of course, is our bonus q&a
		

			Live q&a sessions. And I don't know what you drank or ate before those q&a sessions. But those were
some of the most memorable moments of my life that you're really
		

			I don't know if you remember, I might have to share the recording with you.
		

			I believe it i Yeah, it happens.
		

			Private community, I don't know what it is Shala I don't know if coffee or Chai actually before this
sessions, but you're on a roll and I can't wait. It usually you know, sometimes what I believe is
that there's someone in the audience that needs to hear something. And it's like Allah subhanaw
taala wants that person to hear it. So I just become a tool to say like, that's how that I literally
that's how I feel like and sometimes, you know, even before I begin to speak, you know, when I'm
when I'm teaching a seminar, I asked people to make that drive, I asked people to make dua that
whatever it is that they needed to hear that they hear it because I don't know what they need, you
		

			know, I don't know what they're going through. I don't know what they're struggling with. But Allah
does, you know, so I really, that's what I think is that that was a it was just, it's just about
		

			you know, it's like who needs to hear that so inshallah to go into it Mashallah. And they always end
up being such a hoot and such a success. So just like a lifter I can't wait to follow to interact
with you and those live q&a sessions. And just a recap of everything that we've discussed in the
past little bit. Transformed online, is closing in a couple of days. It's of course, it's a Sunday
it's been which I had an amalgam Institute, and it's got a full 100 love for Module course prepared
for you guys. You get access to a private member portal, live q&a sessions, bonus sessions, you
know, extra resources and things like that, that we are sharing in this session, inshallah. It'll be
		

			a lot more in depth than that. So if you are in
		

			interested and if you've benefited from this session, I highly recommend that you guys register
Inshallah, we will see you guys on the other side if you have any questions or little chat on that
page that you can reach out to, or you can reach out to info at a maghrib.org We cannot wait to see
you. We cannot wait to enjoy their time with you Inshallah, as well. So thank you so much for being
with us here today. And I know we're gonna see you tomorrow as well for those who are asking for
more webinars and more sessions and more things and shuttler Same time tomorrow we're going to be
here on the topic of detox, how to break unhealthy patterns and take back control and I cannot wait
		

			for that. So that's 3:30pm 8:30pm PST, be there inshallah invite your friends, and we'll see you
soon for now. Take care Stay happy, stay healthy, stay safe. And s&m. aneko Rahmatullahi.
		

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