Yassir Fazaga – S.2 Introduction To Islamic Psychology – House Of Wisdom 2023

			initiate on a regime Smilla Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah in the Name of Allah, the
Compassionate, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah we bear witness that no one is water
there for sure but Allah and we've been witnessed that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa Salam is indeed
his final messenger. The best speech is a book of Allah. The best of guidance is the guidance of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam May Allah Subhana Allah make us amongst those who listen to the
best of speech, the book of Allah and follow its commandments. And may Allah Subhana Allah make us
amongst those who come to know the best of ways the way of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
		

			make us amongst his followers Allahumma Amin Allahu Allah Ameen. Allahumma Amin and I begin by
greeting you all as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			it is good to be with you and I absolutely loving all the presentations the opening speeches the
welcoming of Dr. Sol pond presentations of Dr. Emma's chef Aki and then also Dr. Abdullah Ali and
these are all difficult acts to follow. So inshallah I will do my best here in being as meaningful
as as possible. So the topic is on Islam and psychology.
		

			In the past 200 years, there has been so much production, in the field of psychology, by Western
civilization.
		

			And when I say a lot, there is a lot
		

			looking into the number of publications in the field of psychology and philosophy consistently,
since 2010, there has been over 15,000 books just on the topic.
		

			And that is in mainly that is coming from America, in the field of psychology.
		

			And that is not necessarily a bad thing. But as we know,
		

			in the fields of psychology, social scientists, Social Sciences, there is also the room of the
presentations being very Eurocentric, meaning that the production of this is based on the
philosophy, the principles, the values, and the way that those who produce that work, see and
interpret the world. And unfortunately, there hasn't been much on the part of the Muslims. In fact,
sadly, most of the production has been either translations, or an attempt to Islam Assize this part
of psychology, which I believe is dishonest, academically dishonest, when you claim somebody else's
thoughts and ideas, and then try to take credit for them.
		

			And then also when you talk into Muslims about mental health or about psychology, the tendency is to
dismiss this by immediately rejecting the idea that in our there isn't really much room for that in
Islam. And one way of luring people in and I love this about our deen is just to inquire and ask.
One of the most repeated descriptions of paradise in the Quran is actually a psychological reward.
You know, as the average Muslim? What does Jannah paradise look like? And people are immediately
going to jump into what it looks like and how excellent the climate is and how much food there is
going to be abundance of this and abundance of that and that is all true. But then the more you look
		

			into the Quran, I'm talking about the Quranic description of paradise, you find out that in no less
than 1112 1314 different places in the Quran. Allah promises the people of paradise once you make it
to paradise law, how often Allah himolla homea has unknown people in paradise shall not experience
any fear, nor shall they experience any grief, which is brilliant. Because the presence of fear or
the presence of grief will take away from whatever material joy we can potentially be experiencing.
So what the Quran tells us is the first thing that you're going to notice in Paradise is that you
should
		

			have not experienced any fear, and you will not experience any grief. Think about it. Fear is all
about imagination. And grief is all about memories. So we either become prisoners of our memories,
or we become captives of our imaginations. We are too sad about what went wrong yesterday, we are
too worried about what can potentially go wrong tomorrow. And we miss out on living today. So the
Quran comes and says, you make it to paradise. And you truly get to enjoy the idea of living in the
moment. Love often I lay him well at home, you know.
		

			And that is just one way that the Quran displays this idea of, we are going to let you know that
psychology and mental health and mental well being is so important that it is ranked amongst one of
the most repeated images that the Quran gives about, about paradise. And as we also know, by means
of observation, amongst the most
		

			diagnosis in mental health, or anxiety disorders, and mood disorders. And yet the Quran speaks in
such in such a manner. And going into the history of how Islam and Muslims contributed to the field
just to give you an idea, we can have the PowerPoint going on.
		

			It used to be that in the past, when anybody displayed any symptoms of beat psychosis or some type
of mental disturbances, the belief was that the person is doing so because they've been possessed by
evil spirits. And through affiliation was the method by which people got rid of evil spirits. Some
people argue that this is the very first surgery known to mankind, which is literally about making a
hole in somebody's skull in order to give way for the evil spirits to leave the body. And this is
how it was done. Don't try this at home, by the way in case anybody's getting ideas there. But this
is what happened. This is how people were invited to cue this notion of somebody displaying any type
		

			of emotional disturbances. And this was a very common practice. It was followed by exorcism many
cases and different methods and approaches and for the sake of time, I'm trying to expedite what
happened here. Then comes the Quran. And what we see is
		

			this verse in Surah, Nisa, where Allah subhanaw taala speaks about, well, I had to sue for her um,
while Kamala Tia Hola Hola, como piano bokksu Humphrey Howard, who were kulula Polen marovo where
the Quran speaks about a group of people known as Super heart beat meaning those who are feeble
minded, those who are insane. The Quran speaks to these people and say, Do not entrust them with
financial transactions. They don't have the LEA they're not capable of getting financial
transactions. However, in the meantime, the community is responsible to look for their well being to
consume, clothe them, feed them, and then the Quran says we're all owl and MA rufa speak to them
		

			with splendid words, see what happens if if terrific, terrific nation failed, that individual was
kicked out of the community. Because the belief is that the evil spirits are so embedded in that
individual. And now that we have done truefinancial on them, and it did not work. They became
unwanted in the community. And then what happened is that through this verse, what we see is an
introduction to neuro ethics. And that is the field that concerns itself with the legal and ethical
aspects when it comes to neuroscience. And here we see that the Quran says we acknowledge that these
people may not
		

			Be capable of carrying out these financial transactions. However, that does not translate into these
people being rejected. But rather, the Quran says that these people are to be closed, they're to be
fed, and you'll speak with them in splendid words, what is implied here is that if you're going to
close them, if you're going to feed them, if you're going to be talking to them, it means that
		

			they are still living amongst you. See, this may not really be something like a big deal. But this
was a huge deal that so much so that
		

			the first case
		

			in England, that was used with insanity was used as a defense. That is in 1843. That is very recent,
in 1843, meaning that people who were considered to be insane for the very first time, they will
legally acknowledge that they are not to be held responsible. What does that mean?
		

			If you look into the books of jurisprudence, the books of faith, you will find statements such as
our abdomen, tech leaf, you know, this idea of a person must have the legal capacity they must have
that they must have the cognitive abilities in order for them to be legally obliged or obligated or
obliged, obliged to, I want you to see and appreciate how is it that on the one hand, people were
practicing the definition, then the Quran comes and speaks about neuro ethics? And how is it that
only as recent as 1843, that people are talking about insanity as a defense, yet again, the Quran
already spoke about this Muslim jurists were already speaking about this way before these ideas were
		

			introduced. And like, you know, Dr. Emmett said in his opening this idea of when you're constantly
the consumer, when you're waiting for other people to produce, and you're just waiting for somebody
to produce something so that you can either claim somehow it is your own or somehow, you know, just
be ready to consume. You feel bad? Because what is it? What is it that we're producing? Why is
everybody so crazy about? What is it men are from Mars and women from Venus, or whatever the case
is? Or what is your love language and what is don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying that
these are bad books. But when you are constantly on the recipient, when you're constantly the one
		

			that is receiving, then an element of Pride goes goes away.
		

			And what happened as a result, that the summer is inviting people say, look, go, go go beyond the
demons, to explain what is going on? Why are people feeling the way that they are? And if you go
beyond the demons, then what are you doing that you're opening for other responsibilities, and now
we are expanding the study of human beings. And I have two examples that I want to share with you
very quickly seek mental health, develop ways to achieve mental health, and involve the role in
mental health
		

			as well. One thing that immediately find and appreciate about Islamic psychology is that Islamic
psychology is a psychology of liberation.
		

			Now, remember that these are not words that we're using to appeal and to make it these are actually
Quranic expressions. So for example, towards the end of Surah, Elara of Allah Subhana Allah speaks
about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and we are told about the nine different things that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam came up with a Lavina Debbie or owner Rasul Allah never yell
or may Allah you do know whom October and the Humphrey terace Will Ng, it speaks about this, you
know, messenger and letter prophet that is being sent to them who is mentioned in their own books,
he, you know, makes lawful for them pure things and he makes it unlawful for them in pure things.
		

			And then towards the end, the Quran mentions two of the missions of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam, where Allah says, Ye Allahu Anhu is home. Well as Lal and latika and Allah him, that part of
the mission of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that he is going to liberate people of their
burdens, and is that he is going to release them of their yokes. And fakra raazi speaks about this
idea of sre. And he says an SRE who are khulumani
		

			You're local in San Juan and in Huracan. He said this is anything that prevents a human being from
moving about freely. And here is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, ALLAH SubhanA. Allah tells
us that part of his mission is that there are yokes. And what we see here is there are two types of
yolks or shackles. There are the self imposed shackles, and then there are the shackles that are
imposed by others. So imagine that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam wakes up in the morning
and monks the very first drought he would say is Allah who many arose of the communal hum me what
hasn't? What was it becoming an icy well castle or other became an elbow level job in
		

			danger or ritual? or Allah I seek refuge in You from anxiety and grief. I seek refuge in You from
laziness and incapacitation or in decisiveness or procrastination depending on how you translate it
or Allah I seek refuge in You from poverty and, and Cofer poverty and disbelief. And the
relationship here is that poverty is people being financially deprived and and in in disbelief.
People are spiritually deprived. But here's Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam is identifying some of
these shackles, and the worst type of shackles are the shackles that are self imposed. So we see
that Islamic psychology is a psychology of liberation. More can be said about about this.
		

			And again, what you see here is the more people are reading the Quran, more people are reading the
Sunnah. People are coming up with Islam's approach Islamic principles to this whole idea, as it was
presented by Dr. Abdullah Ali earlier, this idea of the Quran and as soon as a source you know, we
talked about you know, where did he get that intellectual ability capacity source foundation from
Quran and Sunnah as the source. Now all of a sudden we spoken about, you know, the balance between
the worldly and the spiritual needs, and then they're talking about the original purity and goodness
of humans, which is fifth, that human beings are intrinsically good at Harlequinade in Santa Fe as
		

			any Tarquin when I teach this course on Islamic psychology, we look into the Word insan in the
Quran, then we look into how Allah Subhana Allah speaks about Hola, hola, deja unlockable
		

			was a word of comfort is on us who are come and meet me that Allah subhanho wa Taala gave you your
shapes and Allah made your shapes beautiful. So the Quran Allah speaks about the intrinsically
people are, are good and so beautifully, you're gonna speak about the source of
		

			Western psychology originally it was based on Christianity. And now the idea here is that people are
born sinful. The Quran comes and says absolutely absurd, people are not born sinful people are born
sinless, not only that, sins cannot be inherited they can only be committed by the individual. And
then most importantly, sins do not taint our being as claimed that the original sin does it taints
your beam and there is no amount of good work that you can do to rid yourself of the original sin in
Islam sins do not taint your being then taint your character Your being is the making of Allah your
character is if your own doing so, if you do anything, you're tainting your character. And then of
		

			course, there is the personal responsibility to atone from what it is that you have that you have
done
		

			what is the Okay.
		

			So, there is the intrinsic goodness and then there is spiritual as well as the biological components
of humans as
		

			intrinsically good. This is a really really nice concept the bolar rasa by Ibn Sina almost Okay. I
will just warming up
		

			right. This is this is really beautiful, give you an idea of how Muslim
		

			psychologists have used this so tabula rasa debate whether it was even Sina or even profile that
actually came up with this. But basically this is talking about how is it that individuals are born
without built in mental content, and that their knowledge comes from exp
		

			perience and sensory perception people actually looked into the Quran and that's where they got it
from
		

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			It is Allah subhanho wa Taala that is facilitated for you that you come out of your mother's wombs
		

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			knowing nothing,
		

			when you're either looking with some outward upside or a feeder, landlocked dish grown and then it
was Allah Subhana Allah Who gave you the faculties of knowledge, this idea of sensory that leads
into perception that comes in the form of hearing seeing and understanding and what you see is a lot
of these examples keep keep coming up.
		

			Then this is this is so as as therapists, we have to use a, a theory. And now there is the most
popular theory is CBT cognitive behavioral therapy with the basic idea of it is that
		

			it is our thoughts that give birth to our feelings. So if you do not like your feelings, you don't
attempt to manage your feelings, but you try to change the thoughts that are giving birth to these
to these feelings. And now you look into this and literally
		

			Malik battery Allah Rahmatullah was considered to be the father of modern Islamic psychology, wrote
a book on abuse, Adel, Delphi, and I was able Belfry was the first one I'm going to pass this was
this is all the work of AbdulKareem. I don't know what I was thinking, thinking that I can do all of
this. But I was able Belfry speaks as to what causes people to be sad or to have anxiety. And he
speaks about the notion of, he said that it is the concept of philosophical highly Well, apple that
causes people to have psychological troubles. And what that basically means is for saddle higher
level Apple, it is corruption or decay, in their actual cognitive cognition, and a higher level
		

			imagination, because think about it.
		

			Anxiety disorders, are all based on imagination,
		

			you somehow go to the future, imagine the worst, and actually live in it.
		

			And sometimes we do not appreciate the power of our thoughts. You are upstairs, it's 2am. And you
hear noises downstairs, and you are certain that this is a burglar,
		

			you're shaking, physiologically, things are changing in your body, the way that the blood flows in
your body changes, and, and so on. And you go down steps only to find out that it was either the cat
or you left the window open. And somehow, you know, it was the wind that was moving things around.
And all of a sudden you calm down. Because see, our bodies don't really care much for accuracy. Our
bodies only respond to certainty. So if you tell your body that there is a burglar down there, your
body is not going to say timeout, you know you're wrong, your body is going to respond to that
certainty. And as a result, people who go through anxiety, what I was able Belfry is talking about
		

			is what we need to fix is the way that this person is thinking. And what they are imagining said
that you're having this problem because you're experiencing facade highly while Apple a decay or a
disruption. Or the thing that needs to be rectified is the way that this person is thinking or the
way that this person is perceiving things. And then the last example would have been by Al kindI and
Al kindI would have been so appropriate because alkyne they played such a big huge deal. In the
House of Wisdom, baked in Heckman. Al kindI wrote an epistle on the idea of defeat Al Hasan How do
you read yourself of Soto
		

			and so on.
		

			But this is this is a really really fascinating field where there is so much that could have been
said a lot of work that that needs to be
		

			done on this one
		

			My only concern is for the people who want to study psychology. And I would love to see as many
people studying psychology as possible. Like with all social sciences, sphere, especially studying
social sciences in the West, you need to be religiously well grounded to do so. Because a lot of
these ideas are going to challenge your dean. And you need to use your dean to challenge them back.
And if you're not well grounded, I am afraid that more harm will be caused than the good that was
originally intended. Disaster Mala Allahu Allah wa salam ala ala Nabina Muhammad Salah Malik
rahmatullah wa barakato.