Don't Be Depressed! - Dr Bilal Philips

brothers and sisters I remind you as I remind myself to fear Allah because the fear of Allah Taku Allah is the essence of faith where there is no taqwa there really is no faith so let us keep that always in mind in our understanding of Islam in our living working playing let us keep taqwa law foremost in our mind where that consciousness is present it is impossible for us to be depressed depression is the biggest killer in this world more than cancer heart disease heart attacks Ebola or any of the plagues depression strikes all over the world and many lives are lost as a result of it but the profits on Mali wasalam when he was in the caves on the way to Medina with Abu Bakr hiding out from the Quraysh who had followed them seeking to kill rasool allah sallallahu seldom and when it seemed as if they were about to be found and the story most of us have heard as children a spider made a web over the entrance of the cave this is not true it's a fairy tale no spider made any web over the entrance the Quran came close so close that Abu Bakr became afraid became saddened saddened to the point that he felt they were going to be caught and that took him to a level of depression that the prophets allah wa sallam pulled him out of saying to him a toxin in Aloha mana do not become depressed because Allah is with us now this statement has been mistranslated as don't be sad and even a well-known book was written by sheikh idol corny with that translation in english don't be sad but reality is that human beings will be sad who is not sad at some point in his life wasn't Rasul Allah Allah Allah I'm sad when his son Ibrahim died of course he was sad so the issue is not about being sad or not being sad we are not going on the banner of be happy you know Gaddafi is the corollary that's the counter if you're not going to be sad then you should be happy and there is even a song about that some years back be happy and everybody loved this song be happy it sounds so nice be happy but reality is you can't be happy all the time people try drugs music all kinds of things to be happy it lasts for a little while and it goes that's not what our life is supposed to be about trying to be happy our lives should be about pleasing Allah whether in happiness or inside miss because our lives will be between happiness and sadness we cannot escape it there is no escape but we don't allow that sadness to reach the point of depression that is the point we don't allow sadness to reach the point where we become depressed where everything around us is sad we're assad about everything we cannot see any good anywhere that is the state that the believers should avoid and it is avoidable and its source is from Shaitaan in fact there's a verse in the Quran in which allah says in the managua mina sh-shaytani leah unilatina am anew indeed the secret meetings and conspiration x' are from satan in order to make the believers depressed it's from shape on that state of depression where one cannot see any good we have been blinded blinded by Shaitaan and then that takes us to a point where so many people kill themselves kill others around them etc that is an evil state and that because of that prophet mom's are seldom used to make the dua Allah in the ayahs who become in al ham me one has it although I seek refuge in you from worried and depression Oh Moses Allah used to frequently make this draw we should do the same when we're feeling down we start to go on that slide remember that dois along my any owls who become in and huh me well hasn't it's longer than that there's other things that we seek refuge from but that part is enough you just focus on that to protect this from falling into that state and a loss my Dada in His mercy had prophet muhammad's illallah wa sallam pointers to a verse in the Quran which is a further reminder for us to beware of depression this verse refers to a time in the life of prophet yunus the noone who had been sent to a people he said that it was in Nineveh in iraq and the people rejected his message as is the sunnah of all of the prophets that when they brought the messages to their people they rejected them this is nothing new but prophet yunus was so saddened by it that he gave up hope on his people and then he abandoned them and we're off and in abandoning them he was abandoning a responsibility which Allah had placed on his shoulders so his sadness at his people's unwillingness to accept the message from Allah so Allah sent him to that point so Allah took him back he guided his people in his absence and when he sought to go further away from that land that that rejected the message of Allah as far as he had understood he ended up on the sea and in a storm and ended up in the water how exactly the different narrations about what actually took place but what concerns as Moses he ended up in the water and he was swallowed by a creature of the sea a big fish a whale a wat Allah knows best a creature of the sea swallowed him and Allah protected him from being digested by that creature because that's what should happen you end up in the stomach of a creature like that you you're going to be digested you'll be eaten a lot of protected him and inside of the stomach of that sea creature he turned back to Allah and he made the dois la ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu men of allah me there is no God worthy of worship besides you may you be glorified indeed I am among the sinful this da this da is so powerful that prophet muhammad sallahu wa sallam had said Allah will relieve the distress and the depression of anyone who prays the prayer of my brother Yunus this is the promise Allah will relieve our depression so we have the dua of rasul allah so allah allah who mainly i will be criminal ham me well hazard as well as the doís of prophet yunus this Islam is provided to deal with a trial and tragedy that happens in so many lives instigated by Shaitaan we should be aware take this cure Allah described the Quran as a cure take this cure Islam is a cure for our illnesses and use it in our daily lives I ask a lost want Allah to guide us back to Him and to spare us the pain and the suffering of depression depression from Shaitaan to protect our children our family members those we love from this terrible state I ask Allah to protect all of us from depression distress worried and extreme sadness from the story of prophet yunus there are four main lessons to be learned the first is the need for patience in all of our affairs the need for patience because with patience depression cannot overcome us that's the fact of the matter for most of us impatience is the norm who live al-insana a Judah human beings are created with a hasty nature an impatient nature that is part of our nature those people who are born who seem to be patient from the earliest times of their lives they're few we admire them they're few but patience is achievable it is achievable otherwise allah subhanaw taala would not have put patience as the ultimate route for achieving success in this life in the next after telling us that we are going to be tried well Anna blue and Macumba shame in a hole filled jewelry he went on to describe all of the forms of trials that we may experience in life loss of wealth life family savings he closed that advice with commercially sovereign give glad tidings of paradise to those who are patient those who whenever they are struck by a calamity they say in a lillahi were in alayhi Roger 1 we belong to Allah and to him we must return now normally when somebody says that people say well who died somebody died in your family but that's not what Allah said it didn't say whenever you have somebody die you say in a deal I said whoever has any calamity in their life if they are patient saying in a Linda hearing Eileen Roger oon they're guaranteed paradise if that becomes their way whenever any tragedy trial what we call bad luck and know that there is no such thing as bad luck it's a loss father whatever happens no matter how small or how big we say in nan lillahi or in they you Roger a reminder to ourselves that everything is in the hands of Allah that's it it's all with Allah so we need to just put our trust in him patiently and everything will work out so bring the Sunnah the Sun now given to us by Allah subhana Allah practice by Rasul Allah so Allah bring it back to life as a means of helping ourselves overcome depression the duas we've got them sewer Yunus the doís Rasool Allah saw Salaam tortoise from a lost one Thailand the Quran to us in general use these make them a regular part of our lives and insha Allah we will overcome depression will not become depressed and patience is achievable no matter how impatient we feel ourselves to be and we think it's impossible I cannot be patient yes you can if you're saying you cannot be it is impossible for you to be patient then you're saying that Allah has created you unfairly he has created you so impatient that you cannot achieve patience and then he told you that if you want to go to paradise you need to be patient that's unfair well I of Lamoure Abu God and your Lord will not be unfair to anyone this is what allah told us so know that patience is achievable and prophet muhammad saw mario sallam told us how to achieve it he said for me yet of a bird is a bird who law whoever strives to be patient pretends to be patient forces himself to be patient Allah will make them patient now some people might say well you're forcing yourself you are pretending to be patient when in fact you are not this is a kind of hypocrisy this hypocrisy it's not you well rasul allah saw salaam told us do it in our terms you might look at it as hypocrisy but it has with it a principle for developing and changing character that principle is that if you keep doing something regularly you keep working with it eventually it will become natural that's the point so when you pretend to be patient externally people see you as a patient but internally you are exploding with impatience eventually that explosion will get less and less and less until there is no explosion and it becomes you you have become patient that is the advice of Rasul Allah so Allah is Allah the second point that we should learn from the lesson of prophet yunus is that we should acknowledge our mistakes acknowledge our mistakes to Allah subhana wa ta'ala and acknowledge our mistakes to those around us nobody likes to acknowledge mistakes we prefer to hide it that is our nature again we don't want to be exposed you want people to think the best of us so we try to defend and cover our mistakes instead of acknowledge them however you cannot change no change will take place as long as you don't acknowledge your mistakes because when you hide it you keep doing it over again and you hide it and you do it and you hide it so the only way forward the only way for us to improve and become better people is to acknowledge our mistakes because when we acknowledge it then we can work on it then we can change it the third is repentance turning back to Allah in repentance for the sins that we have committed quickly not delaying it that the way forward is to recognize acknowledge our mistakes our sins and seek repentance from Allah we ask him there is no sin too great that we cannot seek repentance from but that process of repentance gives us strength builds us to be able to overcome those sins and the fact that we did it and we came back and we asked repentance and we did it again and we asked repentance and we did it again and of course Shaitaan would say look at you there is no repentance for you you keep doing it but reality is that if we strive sincerely yes you may do it again but it won't be like the first time the third time won't be like the second time the fourth time won't be like the third time eventually it gets less and less and less for some people they repent one time they stop and finish done and but for most people it takes time so we don't become depressed Shaitaan wants to put that thought in your mind no no point see it's a waste of time Allah will never forgive you look at you but the point is Allah is able to forgive all sins no matter how great they may be and this is the message of the Quran and the Sunnah and the fourth point is that we should glorify Allah we should praise Allah throughout our day subhanAllah alhamdulillah Allah Akbar this should be on our lips throughout the day not just after Salah we sit and we say subhanAllah hamd allahu akbar and then we go on the rest of the day till the next Allah subhanAllah I'm the law awkward next Allah this is not what was intended what is intended is that when we are saying subhana allah al hamdulillah Allahu Akbar after our prayers this is a reminder for us that between the prayers we should be saying super Hanna law and hamdulillah Allahu Akbar because there are so many occasions there are so many things happening in our lives which should be graced with the statement Subhan Allah why not super Hanna law you see something amazing what do we say so ham Allah no we say wow yeah every place where you want to say wow say Subhan Allah those are the places where superhot Allah be like begin or belong that's where we should be saying super have allah and every day there are things happening good things that have come to us there is place for alhamdulillah we do say it that one we say a little more often because at least in Salah we are beginning our prayers with al hamdulillah it's there all the time let's try to say alhamdulillah with real meaning you know hamdulillah yes you say Angela Tara hamdullah but alhamdulillah is it really alhamdulillah now we just need to try to put some more meaning into it really think Allah and Allah Akbar of course there is no end of opportunities and circumstances in our lives when we know that Allah Akbar is appropriate Allah is greater than all of these things how powerful the enemy seems hurting Muslims bombing Muslims misguiding Muslim Allah Akbar o people think Oh along buckets just when you on the battlefield jihad you're going to kill than Allah WA no that's not the only place yes on the battlefield we say Allah Akbar - but the battlefield of our lives there are many places also where we need to be saying Allah what word you got fired on your job because you try to do the right thing you refuse to agree to a kickback you are fired this is the time Allah Akbar Allah is greater you can't hurt me if I'm doing what is pleasing to Allah you did that you think you are going to hurt me because I didn't go along with your plan to earn yourself extra money legitimately bribery kickbacks under the table deals I refused you fired me Allahu Akbar Ya Allah walk but Allah will take care of it so I ask Allah SWA Allah to bring his remembrance back into our lives through taqwa through following the guidance of His Messenger Muhammad SAW allah wa sallam and protecting ourselves from depression i ask allah SWA Allah to protect our families or children to forgive those who went before us those who we have lost we ask Allah to make their graves gardens from paradise we ask Allah SWA Allah to make the way forward good and clear for the Ummah to protect us from the evil of those who seek to prevent the spread of Islam to distort the image of Islam we ask Allah to make us truly his servants from his olia those who are close to him and who love him about whom he said la khawfun alayhim wala whom and then one no fear will overcome them nor will they be depressed

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Length: 33min 29sec (2009 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 06 2016