My Dearest Brothers And Sisters, During This Unprecedented
Time; This New Stage Of Humanity Of The Pandemic Has Brought
With It Strange Tote Unusual Times.
Even As I See You Sitting In Front Of Me With Social Distancing
Is Makes Me Think
What Is The Plan Of Allah (Swt)/ What Is It As Believers
That We Should Take Away From These Strange Times?
Is There Any Benefit/ Any Wisdom/ Any Reason? Of Course, The
Answer Is Yes, But What?
Through This Social Distancing And The Lockdown And The Restrictions
Though There Has Been Much Benefit In Trying To Curb The
Spread Of This Virus,
May Allah Protect Us All, It Has Also Created A Lot Of Problems
As Well; One Problem
The Lockdown Has Created, The Restrictions Has Increased ...
Is.. The Toll Had On The Mental Well-Being
Many People; For Example: Right Now
There Are More People Experiencing Loneliness; The Perhaps
Ever Before. A Survey Was Conducted Around December Last Year
Asking Adults
How Many Of You Feel Lonely Or How Many Of You Would Say
You Felt Lonely For A Long Period Of Time?
And Around 22% Of Adults Identified As I Would Myself In
That Category. During The Pandemic; During The Lockdown The
Same Survey, Same Question Was Asked And That Figure Rose
To 36%, One In Three People
What Was Even More Shocking Is That That When That Question
Was Posed To Young Adults Between The Age Of 16 To 24, People
Who Think Young And Active And They Have A Circle Of Friends
And Social Media.
They Found The Figure To Be 44 Percent, Forty, That'S Almost
Half Of All Young People Feeling Lonely
And Why Is That Such A Bad Thing; Because Feeling Lonely
Leads To Other Mental Health Disorders Life, Feeling Very Anxious,
Being Depressed, In Worst Case Scenario Feeling Like You'Re
So Lonely That What Is The Point Living?
We Ask Allah To Protect Us From Ever Being Such A Place And
Ask Allah To Help Those Those Are Feel Like They Are Near
Such A Place, Allahhuma Ameen.
So Feeling Lonely Is Actually Something We Should Speak About.
How Is The Muslims Close To Perceive Themselves When They
Find That They No Longer Can Interact With Their Friends
For Most Of The Time Before This, We Couldn'T Come To The
Masjid To Spend Time In The House Of Allah Being Each Other'S
Company And Even Now, To A Certain Extent We Are Able To Feel
You Socialize As You Wish.
What Are The Important Things I Want To Say
Is That Just Because You Are Alone Doesn'T Necessarily Mean
You Are Lonely.
This Is A Very Interesting Way Of Looking At Time When You
Are By Yourself. Most Of Us Have More Free Time Working
From Home Etc.
I Want To Bring To Your Attention One Little Verse From Surat
Al-Mulk: Allah (Swt) Says Indeed Those Who Fear Their
Master And The Unseen,
For Them Is Forgiveness And A Huge Reward.
May Allah Make Us From Those People.
What Does That Mean?
It Can Mean They Fear Allah In Spite Of The Fact That They
Haven'T Seen Allah. They Have Seen His Signs, Experienced His Presence,
But They Haven'T Seen Him, Yet
They Still Fear Him And Are Cautious Of Him, But Another Interpretation
Is That They Fear Allah When They Are All By Themselves When Nobody Is Around.
That'S Amazing Because Usually When You Are By Yourself Is
When You... The Worst Side Of You Comes Out.
No One'S Looking Over Your Shoulder.
No One'S There To Check You And Some Of The Worst Habits
That We Have...
May Allah Forgive Us.
We Do Behind Closed Doors When No One Is Looking And Here Allah Is
Saying In Fact If You Are From Among Them... Fear When They
Are By Themselves, You Think More About Allah. You Feel Closer To Allah.
You Recognize That Time As A Moment Of Being In Solitude
In The Company Of Allah, No Longer Have To Worry About Other
People Looking And What Other People Are Thinking Is Just
About What Allah Sees.
Nobody Else Is Around, Now Allah Values You More. Now Your Time
Alone In Isolation As Becomes A Time Where You The Gain Of
Closeness Towards Allah (Swt). In An Amazing Hadith:
Ayesha (Ra) Was Asked By Ibn Omar (Ra);
Tell Me The Most Amazing Thing You Saw From The Life
Of The Prophet (Saw), This Is His Wife, Aisha (Ra) Being Asked From All Your Memories.
Tell Us The Most Amazing Thing What You Saw From The Life
Of The Prophet (Saw) She Said, I Remember One Night;
He Woke Up And I Woke Up.
And He Said Allow Me To Be With My Master, He Asked Permission
To Leave The Bed And Go To The Prayer-Mat And Ayesha (Ra) Said
To Be In Your Company.
But I Also Love What You Love. So Go...
This Is His Wife;
She Wants To The Time With Her Husband. Moreover,
The Person Is Married To A Number Of Wives.
So That Time Is Is Very Very Precious. So She'S Torn But She Says
Okay, You Do What.. I Love What You Love; Go...
And Then She Said I Saw Him Standing The Entire Night In Salatul Tahajjud.
And Then I Saw Him Crying Until His Beard Came Moist
And Then I Saw Him Cry More And To The Place Of His Prostration
Became Wet With His Blessed Tears.
And Then I Said To Him After He Finished, Yeah! Messenger Of Allah,
Why Do You Do This To Yourself?
But Allah Has Forgiven You For What You'Ve Done Your Past And
You Will Do In The Future.
He Said Should I Not Be A Grateful Slave? Allahu Akbar.
What Was He Teaching Us?
He Was Teaching Us That You Know, The Moments That Allah
Gives You Your Life Or You'Re By Yourself, Could Be Your Car
By Yourself, In Your Room By Yourself, But Those Moments He
Gave You To See The You Take Advantage Of Them.
Do You Remember Him On Your Lips?
Do You Think About Him In Your Heart?
Does His Presence Become More Manifest To You In Those
Moments Such That You Say Let Me Show Allah, I Am Truly Thankful
For What He'S Given Me?
I Say Alhamdulillah, Even When I'M By Myself.
I Think Allah Even When No One Is Looking.
..... Shouldn'T I Be A
Grateful Slave, Yeah Aisha? Allah Has Given Me So Much.
Yeah, But He Might Forgive Me My Sins But Yet Shouldn'T I Show
Allah That I Am Grateful.
And This Is Yet Another Way To Lift Yourself
If You Feel Lonely, To Remind Yourself That You Know What?
I'M Not By Myself, Allah Is With Me; Just Like Allah Was With Young
Yusuf. He Was Thrown In The Bottom Of Whale By His Own Blood
Brothers. Did He Despair? And Say You Know What The World
Is Against Me, When In Fact The World Was Against Him, In Despair And
Says Who Is Going To Help Me?
No, He Knew That He Has A Rabb/ Allah And Even Though He'S
Just A Boy, Allah Says In The Quran You Will Tell Them.
Allah Will Reward Him..
That You Will Come Out Of This.
You Will Become Someone Great.
Your Brother Will Come To You And You Will Have The Last
Word On This Matter And Our Prophet Muhammed (Saw) When
He Began His Mission As A Prophet, All Alone In The Cave, Hera By Himself.
Nobody Else Was There. Allah Took That Moment When He'S In Isolation
To Make Him A Prophet (Allahu Akbar).
So Your Finest Hours;
My Brothers; Your Best Moments In Life Could Actually Be
The Moment That You Are All Alone.
May Allah (Swt) Grant Us Ability To Take Advantage Of
Those Moments.
These Are Some A Few Words If Somebody Genuinely Feels Like
You Know What, This Is Getting Too Much To Me;
I Feel Alone, Lonely.... It'S Getting Taking Its Toll....
It'S Getting Too Much.
I Feel Overwhelmed And There'S No Shyness And Reaching Out
To Those Those People That Can Help You.
There'S No Shyness In Islam And Going To A Healthcare Professional
And Saying You Know What?
I Don'T Know Why I'M Losing It, To Get That Advice To Get
That Treatment
There Is Nothing Wrong With That.
In Fact, It Could Be A Sign Of Your Faith.
You Recognize Allah Is Testing Me Through My Mental Well-Being
And He Is Seeing What My Slave Avail Himself Of All The Remedies
That I Put In Front Of Him. Because He Can See That When He
Is Mentally Struggling Then He Spiritually Affected As Well.
Isn'T That True; When You'Re Stressed Out How Difficult
Is It To Focus In Your Prayer?
So Person Says I Will Deal With My Stress Because I Know It Will
Make A Better Slave Of Allah (Swt). So If
You Are From This Category
There'S No Shame To Take Advice And Help
May Allah (Swt) Grant Us All Ease.