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okay what should we do

what does the quran and sunnah tell us

about battling with that type of stress

what do you learn from the first

thoughts

that comes from the believers as they

enter jannah may allah make us amongst

them

the first thought is what alhamdulillah

no more worrying that shows us dear

muslims

that this world is associated

with feeling anxious this world every

step

every single part of our journey every

day every week every month

there's something else that's going to

bring us anxiety and grief

and i challenge you dear brothers and

sisters

look back at any phase of your life

when things are good we're worried that

things are going to go bad

when things are bad we're worried things

are bad when money is wealth a lot we're

worried is going to go away

investment is going to go down when

money is tight where worried money is

tight
there is no situation or scenario that

we find

ourselves in except that there's some

anxiety

some grief somewhere true not all

anxiety is the same

alhamdulillah if we have roof over our

heads and food in the pantry and fridge

that is much better than those who do

not have security and food

but still feeling anxiety

worried stressed out is a part and

parcel of being

human and it will only be completely

gone

when we enter jannah insha'allah and

that is why

dear brothers and sisters it is so

important

that we understand and we tackle head-on

the reality of stress and grief and we

make us

make it a part of our daily discourse

that it is nothing wrong

to feel anxious you don't have to feel

guilty

for feeling stressed out especially in

this time of pandemic

i mean how can we not be anxious worried

stressed out people are dying everyone

amongst us has had family or friends

that have passed away

on top of this we have limited

socialization

some of the things that would relieve

our stress was to be with friends and

family that too has been taken away

anxiety in terms of money

so many of us our job situations maybe

even we're looking for jobs and in this

pandemic allah

families being cooped up it should bring

more love but the reality is with that

love also comes tension

sometimes between husband and wife

between father and son

it becomes worse because you're all

cooped up so no doubt

during this time frame this pandemic

it's understandable

then anxiety and stress and grief and

worry

it's going to increase okay what should

we do

what does the quran and sunnah tell us

about battling

with that type of stress first and

foremost dear muslims

realize that the quran tells us that

people of

piety can stress people of taqwa

feel anxious the fact that you're

stressed out

doesn't mean you have bad iman weak iman

lack of iman

no this is wrong people of taqwa

and people of iman also feel stressed

out

look at the quran so many examples allah

tells us

that the mother of musa she was full of

grief

when she put musa in that basket and it

went away and allah azzawajal said to

her

don't be worried don't stress out she

was worried and stressed out

allah revealed to her indirectly that

calm down maryam

one of the greatest when she was all

alone she had no friend no companion

and she was giving birth she was

stressed out

allah sent an angel to tell her

don't worry she was worried the fact

that she was maryam did not negate that

she was worried

her iman was one place and the worry was

another place

they are not mutually exclusive we learn

in the quran

that yaakov was stressed out

in fact he was so stressed out that that

anxiety

caused him to lose his sight

because of anxiety his eyes did not

work the way they were supposed to and

yakub is a prophet is anybody going to

accuse yakub of not having faith not

having iman why are you stressed out

don't you have iman in allah feeling

stress and iman

are not mutually exclusive you can have

both together we have in the quran as

well abu bakr al-sadiq

was worried in the tower and the prophet

sallallahu alaihi

calmed him down the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam himself said

that don't worry allah azzawajal is with

us

and even the sahaba multiple times

allah azzawajal tells them sometimes

even for financial issues

you know the stock market crashes many

of us might feel anxious

we lose our 401k something happens we're

gonna feel stressed

we get out of a job there's gonna be

anxiety let not that stress

become itself a source of stress you get

my point here let not your stress

itself cause you to be more stressed out

that why am i feeling stress

it's okay to be anxious it's okay to be

worried

you have iman insha allah and you can

still feel worried

our prophet salallahu multiple times in

the quran

allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells him we

know it hurts you

what people are saying the reputation it

hurts when people say bad about you

our nabi is consoled

over half a dozen times in the quran

so many times don't feel anxiety don't

feel grief

allah is consoling the nebula

because he is hurt his chest is in

constriction

because of rumor mongering rumor

mongering

words words do hurt they hurt so

the first point that we learn dear

muslims is that

feeling anxiety and stress is normal

it is natural it's a part and parcel of

not just being

muslim but being human every one of us

is going to feel anxiety at times of

tension and we also need to look at it

from a biological and a psychological

standpoint

this is allah's mechanism to put us on

our guard

imagine if we didn't feel stressed and

we're losing our money that would be a

problem

imagine what happens when you're

stressed out you focus

that's the purpose allah blessed us with

the mechanism of stress

we all know when adrenaline flows for

example our perception changes

our focus changes it is a gift from

allah

which yes it has its own negatives we

have to deal with

but overall if used properly stress is a

part

of a gift that is used for our survival

for our protection

that we start thinking and focusing you

know when we're stressed about something

we're constantly thinking about it why

we need to get a solution if we didn't

get that stress why would we think about

it

so we have to understand that stress

anxiety grief

at some level is totally normal and it

is a part and parcel

of not just being a muslim but being a

human

the second point that this leads me to

is that as a muslim alhamdulillah

we have tools to minimize stress

we have tools to help us overcome stress

one

main tool in the quran to battle against

stress

is our belief in qadhar in

predestination

we believe that everything happens by

the will of allah and the decree of

allah

and in that we should feel a sense of

calm a sense of protection

the believer uses qadhar

to feel a consolation for anything that

has happened in the past

qatar is used to console the past

something happened

somebody passed away i lost my job the

stock market crashed

anything in the past tense you say

we don't use qatar for the future

there's something else used to console

the past

nothing is going to happen to me except

what allah has decreed will happen to me

and he is my mawla he is my protector

whatever allah has decreed i put my

trust in him the one who put me

in the situation will also help me get

out of it

the one who gave me this reason and this

cause of feeling anxiety

will also give me the tools to cope with

that anxiety and to eventually

overcome that anxiety we firmly believe

that anxiety and stress is a means

of attaining allah's reward if we

channel it to connect with allah any

pain and stress that we feel our prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam said

no muslim is afflicted with any grief

or stress or pain or anxiety

or suffering six adjectives he gave six

different things to describe every

possible state

no pain no anguish no grief no worry no

physical pain

not even ashoka a thorn that pricks him

and he is patient
except that allah will give him the ajar

for that stress and grief faith does not

eliminate

stress but faith allows you to cope with

it

and deal with it in a way that insha

allah you can live a life as normal as

possible and then meet allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala for that

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