Improving Mental Health Through Faith - Sayed Saleh Qazwini

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[0:28]please [Music] is foreign foreign the most honored and dignified creation of

[1:19]allah is the human being out of all of the billions and

[1:25]millions of creation allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has honored and dignified the human

[1:33]being and favored the human over all other creation allah the human

[1:40]being by giving the human the power of the intellect the power

[1:46]of choice and emotions and these are features and gifts that allah

[1:53]did not give many others or perhaps some have some of these

[1:58]features but not all of them but you find that all of

[2:04]these are in the human being that allah has gifted and chosen

[2:09]over all other creation furthermore allah as a sign as a gesture

[2:17]that allah has honored the new men allah the human being and

[2:26]sent prophets and messengers to show the way and pave the path

[2:32]and teach the human and bring the human in humanity a system

[2:39]of life where they will live a happy successful life in this

[2:46]life and this happy successful life will be a pathway successful eternal

[2:56]afterlife so this is the purpose of religion and allah says that

[3:01]we have to follow religion not because allah subhanahu wa ta'ala needs

[3:07]us to follow religion and abide by the laws of religion but

[3:11]because we benefit from religion because it brings for us a system

[3:15]that will give us a good [Music] the call of god and

[3:36]the messenger for he has given you a message of life so

[3:39]we see that the message of islam is a message of life

[3:43]a message of well-being a message of satisfaction to live a healthy

[3:52]lifestyle now when it comes to our overall happiness there are certain

[3:56]things that we comprehend and we understand and we don't need anyone

[4:00]to come and teach us but there are other things that oftentimes

[4:05]we neglect and we don't focus on for example we focus on

[4:11]the appearances we focus on things that are materialistic if i want

[4:15]to be satisfied in terms of materialistic satisfaction we know how to

[4:20]find that satisfaction just as if we are hungry for example you

[4:24]go and you eat you go and you find food you go

[4:28]and you take care of that problem if you have pain you

[4:31]go to the doctor and you take care of it however there

[4:34]are other needs that we have which are just as important as

[4:39]the need of hunger and the need to remove pain and all

[4:43]of these other desires and needs that we have that we don't

[4:47]pay attention to and sometimes we need to be reminded of sometimes

[4:51]we need a reminder for example we all know that when we're

[4:57]hungry we have to feed our stomach but how many of us

[5:00]feed our souls how many of us think of the food that

[5:04]our soul and our spirits our roy requires to function so this

[5:11]is something that oftentimes you see people neglect and this is why

[5:15]there's a lack of spirituality in our communities in our societies even

[5:20]though allah says one of the purposes of our creation is to

[5:27]be connected with allah and to build spirituality allah says i created

[5:35]the jinn and the humans so that they worship so that they

[5:40]seek nearness to allah or not because god needs us but because

[5:43]we are in need of that relationship with allah subhanallah but we

[5:50]see that oftentimes people neglect the spiritual needs furthermore people neglect the

[5:57]mental needs the needs of the mental health that we all require

[6:02]the mental well-being it's very important just as you need to have

[6:08]physical well-being just as you need to make sure that your body

[6:12]is healthy you need to make sure that you are not suffering

[6:16]from mental health issues that you solve the mental health problems and

[6:22]struggles that you deal with now what are some mental health illnesses

[6:27]mental health illnesses are conditions that affect a person's thinking so when

[6:35]our body is impacted if i can't walk right if i can't

[6:37]breathe right if my liver my heart if my stomach is not

[6:39]functioning properly i go to the doctor right away but if we

[6:45]have problems that impact our mental well-being which impact which um that

[6:52]conditions that affect a person's thinking feeling mood or behavior such as

[6:56]depression anxiety bipolar disorder or schizophrenia now some people might think that

[7:02]you know i don't have schizophrenia but yes maybe we have anxiety

[7:08]issues maybe we have other needs which also fall under the category

[7:12]of mental well-being and we need to care for these things islam

[7:18]as a religion teaches us to take care of our body take

[7:21]care of the gift that has given us take care of our

[7:26]our state of wealth make sure we are we are in a

[7:32]healthy state of living whether it's your body this is a gift

[7:36]from allah and also your spirituality your mental health you have to

[7:41]make sure that you're happy and the purpose of religion is to

[7:45]bring us a life a real life where we are happy there

[7:56]are people that are alive today but in fact their souls are

[8:03]dead because they're suffering inside so we have to make sure that

[8:07]we remove that suffering according to the cdc more than 50 percent

[8:10]of people will be diagnosed with mental health illness mental illness or

[8:15]disorder at some point in their lifetime so 50 of people meaning

[8:21]if there are 100 people in the room 50 of them they'll

[8:25]get that they will have that disorder at one point in their

[8:29]life one in five americans will experience a mental illness in a

[8:33]given year out of five people one of them will go through

[8:38]a type of mental mental health wellness and this is something that's

[8:42]serious this is a serious problem one in five children you know

[8:47]this is not something that just happens with adults unfortunately right now

[8:51]especially when this you know in the covet era where the children

[8:56]are doing school at home they don't get to play with their

[8:58]friends their lives have changed just like the lives of adults have

[9:03]changed the lives of the children have also changed so oftentimes we

[9:06]don't think of the mental well-being of children but there are studies

[9:11]that say one in five children either currently or at some point

[9:15]during their life have had a serious debilitating mental health illness so

[9:23]of course the reasons for mental health illness are many sometimes it

[9:30]could be a you know facing a trauma or dealing with a

[9:35]problem at one point in your life maybe it was 10 years

[9:37]ago maybe it was 20 years ago but until now that problem

[9:44]it continues to restrain your your ability to function and have a

[9:48]healthy mental well-being second it could be an ongoing medical condition for

[9:54]example you go to the doctor and they tell you you have

[9:57]a heart problem you have diabetes you have you have this illness

[10:03]that illness it will cause people to have a mental um a

[10:07]issue that will kind of inhibit them and stop them from reaching

[10:11]their highest potential when it comes to their mental well-being third use

[10:15]of recreational drugs and alcohol something that's very prevalent in our communities

[10:21]something that's very prevalent in society and now drugs marijuana has become

[10:27]legalized it's encouraged wherever you go you see it alcohol is something

[10:30]that is not even regarded as you know something shameful but something

[10:35]that everyone and people are proud of is these cause stress to

[10:40]the body and stress to the mental well-being and to the soul

[10:44]and this is why it's harmonious this is why any intoxicant anything

[10:49]that takes away your ability to make sound decisions and life is

[10:54]haram some people they come and they ask me say it marijuana

[10:59]has become legal does it mean it became halal now no of

[11:03]course not anything that takes away the gift that allah has given

[11:08]you that gift to make sound decisions anything that comes and takes

[11:14]that away that is harm common sense will dictate that before the

[11:17]quran and before hadith or anything else common sense tells us that

[11:21]we have to make sure that we protect our capacity to to

[11:27]think and make sound decisions in life another reason for mental health

[11:36]issues is loneliness and lack of friends this is also something that

[11:39]right now during the covet era we see a lot of people

[11:42]are dealing with because now people are working from home people are

[11:46]at school at home and some people are living alone they don't

[11:49]have anyone they don't have big families or they don't they can't

[11:54]see their relatives they can't see people that they want to see

[11:58]so this is a serious issue now we mentioned the statistics we

[12:03]mentioned that islam is it's a religion that gives us a system

[12:10]of life that wants us to have all type of happiness a

[12:13]good lifestyle living is just giving us a system that will bring

[12:17]us happiness in this life and it will lead us to be

[12:20]happy in the afterlife so islam as a religion gives a solution

[12:24]to all these problems it gives a solution to mental health problems

[12:29]and any problem you face in life islam does give somewhat of

[12:34]a solution however just you know side note there are some people

[12:42]their their mental uh well-being and the problems that they're suffering are

[12:45]too serious for to come in to say okay islam no sometimes

[12:50]some people need to go and see a professional sometimes some people

[12:55]they need to go see a doctor just as if you have

[12:59]you know stomach pain you have heart pain you don't go and

[13:01]say okay you know what i'm going to do is helps the

[13:06]heart works but works as long as you also go and seek

[13:10]treatment i've mentioned the story of prophet muhammad and he kept doing

[13:17]he kept asking allah to treat him but he wasn't being treated

[13:23]so he asked allah after a while i keep doing god and

[13:28]i'm still ill i'm still sick you're not going to be treated

[13:34]unless you go and you find the means of treatment yes the

[13:41]one who he is the ultimate healer has created this life of

[13:46]a system there's a cause and effect and you have to carry

[13:50]out you have to abide by the laws of nature and the

[13:53]laws of the system that allah has created it is allah that

[13:56]allows that medicine to work on your body it is allah that

[14:00]will not allow a particular medicine to work on someone else's body

[14:04]so we seek the medicine but we also turn to god so

[14:10]we need to seek solutions sometimes go into a professional sometimes going

[14:15]to someone who will try to find out what is the mental

[14:20]health disorder that we are suffering from sometimes there is a chemical

[14:24]imbalance in the brain and the doctor gives medicine can you take

[14:27]that medicine there's nothing wrong with that and we as a community

[14:32]for ourselves and for the community we have to remove the stigma

[14:35]which you know a lot of people they say okay you know

[14:38]what if i go to the heart doctor there's nothing wrong with

[14:42]that but if i go to a psychiatrist then that means my

[14:44]faith is weak then that means i don't believe in god no

[14:46]you go and you find solutions to these problems now i'm going

[14:52]to move on to the faith-based solution and as i mentioned first

[14:56]sometimes you might have to go and seek professional help but that

[14:59]faith also plays a very important role in solutions and creating solutions

[15:09]for the problems that we face in our lives allah and allah

[15:13]knows exactly what we need and allah knows exactly what we'll suffer

[15:19]from so doesn't it make sense to return to the to the

[15:23]owner's handbook to the manual to the original manual because the one

[15:28]who created us allah knows that if we turn to allah if

[15:33]we have a conversation with allah if we turn to faith then

[15:36]i don't want to say all of our problems will be gone

[15:41]because sometimes yes there are other other problems that can be solved

[15:43]through dua but the majority of them will allah says verily it

[15:52]is through the remembrance of allah that the hearts will be at

[15:55]peace and the ends and the humans so that they worship god

[16:04]knows what i need god created me he knows what i need

[16:10]and allah says this is the solution to your problem we ignore

[16:13]the solution we go and we try to find solutions through a

[16:19]materialistic lifestyle through desires through the haram through many things that are

[16:24]wrong we end up ruining and destroying our communities and our societies

[16:28]and our families and then we come in and say why does

[16:31]god make me suffer and then at the end we come and

[16:36]we blame it on allah no there is a faith-based solution first

[16:40]of all faith removes many of the causes of depression and anxiety

[16:46]and stress and all of these mental health problems we mentioned loneliness

[16:51]we mentioned loneliness as one of the causes we mentioned having recreational

[16:59]drugs or alcohol early adverse experiences such as trauma and abuse religion

[17:06]doesn't only give you spirituality religion gives you a sense of community

[17:11]a sense of if there's a community then there should be no

[17:15]abuse within a community because if i see someone dealing with trauma

[17:24]i have to go and try to fix this person's life religion

[17:27]gives us a sense of community we're supposed to gather at the

[17:32]masjid we pray together we have friends we develop bonds in islam

[17:36]it's much to have to for example eat with a group of

[17:41]people it's supposed to have to travel with a group of people

[17:43]don't travel alone don't sleep alone don't live your life alone these

[17:47]are things that islam comes and changes our lifestyle and when it

[17:52]changes our lifestyle we will find that we will remove a lot

[17:56]of the loneliness and the anxiety and the depression that we suffer

[17:58]from just by living the islamic lifestyle so islam gives us that

[18:06]lifestyle and faith faith it helps a person deal with the challenges

[18:12]that they face in life religion gives individuals faith when you have

[18:18]faith even if you're suffering from a problem even if you're suffering

[18:23]from a catastrophe you're not going to give up you're not going

[18:26]to say the whole world is against me because god is with

[18:31]me if god is with me i don't care if the whole

[18:32]world's standing against me i don't care if i'm all alone in

[18:41]this world if allah is [Music] [Music] he says if everyone between

[18:59]the east and the west dies and all that i have with

[19:05]me is the quran i would not feel lonely because imagine knows

[19:08]that if he has god with him then he's not going to

[19:14]need anyone or anything else faith gives us a feeling of patience

[19:24]allah says in the quran [Music] this is why there was a

[19:43]study by michigan state university it says that religious participation is linked

[19:48]to lower suicide rates in many parts of the world including united

[19:52]states and russia just religious participation because when you're participating you have

[19:58]a sense of community also you know that there's god a higher

[20:02]power that's able to help you endure the problems and the challenges

[20:07]that you face in life when we have faith in allah subhanahu

[20:14]wa ta'ala we know that there's a lord that will answer us

[20:18]we know that there's a lord that will answer us where do

[20:24]you find someone who comes and tells you a king a president

[20:28]someone who's so powerful that comes and says call upon me just

[20:32]talk to me and i will answer you that is allah subhanallah

[20:39]how insignificant the human being is we are nothing we're not even

[20:45]worthy of god listening to us we're not worthy of god sending

[20:49]prophets and messengers and imams and debate for us because allah loves

[20:54]us because allah cares for us because allah is so merciful with

[21:00]us he sends over 124 000 prophets he listens to us when

[21:08]we are in need when we are suffering and the quran is

[21:11]filled with examples of individuals who at their lowest point they turn

[21:17]to allah allah answers them are you prophet you was suffering and

[21:22]you had lost it all but you turned to allah when he

[21:32]was at his weakest allah listen to him when everyone left him

[21:36]it was god who was listening to him jonas prophet yunus he

[21:42]was in the stomach of the well in the middle of the

[21:47]night and in the middle of the ocean and the deepness of

[21:54]the ocean he turns to allah allah will listen to you so

[22:28]similarly we need to be connected with allah subhanahu wa allah listens

[22:34]to us and having faith-based lifestyle that will remove many of the

[22:42]challenges that we face in life let me end with this with

[22:45]this hadith narrated by me from fatima he said she said that

[22:52]one night i was don't sleep every night don't sleep until you

[23:05]have completed the quran and you have all of the prophets intercede

[23:10]for you and you have all of the believers be pleased with

[23:17]you and you have performed with allah he tells you this and

[23:22]then your father you told me to do certain things that seem

[23:40]kind of impossible how can i how can i complete the whole

[23:45]quran before i sleep every night how can i make sure all

[23:50]the prophets intercede closer to you than you might think and there

[24:05]are many things that you can do that will bring allah closer

[24:09]to you and bring you closer to god and will give you

[24:13]the reward the the lab of the one who's doing these things

[24:16]so he tells her if you want the reward of completing the

[24:23]whole quran then recite so eight recite it three times you recite

[24:28]it three times allah will give you the reward of the person

[24:33]who has completed the whole quran because is equivalent to one third

[24:39]of the quran if you read it it's as if you have

[24:43]read that it's as if you have read one-third of the quran

[24:48][Music] [Music] muhammad

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