2024-03-22 18:03:49
Dr. Amr Khaled, the Islamic preacher, presented a faith-based recipe for preserving mental health, which he described as the most precious thing a person possesses, warning against losing it no matter the circumstances.
Khaled said, in the thirteenth episode of his Ramadan program “Understanding About God – Part Two”: “Life is all ups and downs, but neglecting your mental health has a great price, greater than the price of any other loss because it is the most precious thing you have. If the world is against you today, the days will turn.” “And it will be to your advantage.”
Khaled added that his way of maintaining his mental health is through submission and intelligent dealing with oneself, “I do not let anything make me lose my mental health. Sadness does not last more than 24 hours.”
3 steps to tremendous psychological energy
Khaled pointed out that “preserving an individual’s mental health requires three things: submission to God + benevolence + remembrance.”
First: the male
Khaled explained that all cells die and live, and humans are in a state of daily demolition and construction, as millions of cells die in the human body daily, because death is part of human life, “He who created death and life to test you which of you is best in deeds.”
He stated that there are 60,000 cells that die and the same grow every day, pointing out that the soul contains factors of destruction and construction, and remembrance strengthens the meanings of construction to overcome the meanings of demolition. On the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, he said: “The parable of the one who remembers his Lord and the one who does not remember Him is the parable of the living and the dead.”
Khaled stressed the importance of dhikr, as it is what brings a person into contact with the Ever-Living, Glory be to Him, who does not die, providing him with the meanings of life, and helping him confront the negative meanings of destruction, describing daily contact with the remembrance of God as “the umbilical cord to your life and your psyche.”
He said that there is a big difference between a living heart that remembers God and a dead heart. God Almighty says: “And neither the living nor the dead are equal. Indeed, God hears whom He wills, and you cannot hear those who are in the graves.” And God Almighty said: “Is he who is dead then We appointed him and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, just as someone like him is in darkness from which he cannot emerge.”
He stressed the importance of feeling, in particular, while reciting dhikr for 20 minutes, so that it brings you to goodness, and to submit to God in times of distress when your mind stops completely. There is a wonderful sentence that says: “What is not eliminated by thought… is eliminated by dhikr.”
Second: Delivery
Khaled advised activating submission in the life of every person, so that God shapes his life for him as he wants, and for him to live with God’s power and strength in the face of pressures that make him more successful.
Contrary to what some people think, Khaled emphasized that money is not the only opportunity for happiness. “God bless you if you have less money, because you put it in a place larger than its size and this greatly affects your psychological health.”
He saw that the big problem is embodied in the single-mindedness, which is that all your problems will be solved by money, and this does not deny its importance, as stated in the Qur’an, “Your money which God has made for you to be a means of standing,” but it was never the only solution.
Khaled listed many things and blessings that money cannot buy, as follows:
Money can buy a bed but not sleep
Money buys a watch but not time
Money buys medicine but not healing
Money buys morality books but not morals
Money buys food but not appetite
Money buys insurance but not security
Money allows you to go to the doctor, but it does not buy health
God bless you even if money is scarce.
Khalid explained that when God Almighty spoke about the Day of Resurrection, he spoke in the past tense and described the events of the Day of Resurrection with the past tense even though they were future, “And the trumpet was blown, and We gathered them all together,” and “And the trumpet was blown, and all in the heavens and all on earth were shocked.”
He stated that “All of these future events are described by God with the past action, because He, Glory be to Him, is transcendent over time and space. He has passed time on created beings, but He, Glory be to Him, has avoided the flow of time upon Him, so everything has happened according to His knowledge. It’s all written and finished. Calm down and say hello.”
4 steps to protect your mental health
Khaled explained four meanings that will help you submit to God and protect your psychological health:
Let God shape you and your life as He wants
Do not give in to chains of worries
Money is not your only chance for happiness
Life is an hour.. Be patient for an hour and it will pass
Third: Charity
As for the third thing that Khaled recommended, it is: Do the best you can, because God says: “We will not waste the reward of the one who does the best,” and be careful not to lose your psychological health.
Khaled stated that there are two verses that carry a divine promise: “God’s mercy is close to the doers of good,” “There is no recourse for the doers of good,” saying: “God promised psychological comfort to the doers of good.”
Therefore, he urged every person to bring out the best in him so that God may bless him, considering that the most powerful way to psychological toughness is…continuing with good deeds “and no one will ever turn away from you.” Continue and do not stop, make your effort and continue.
Khaled described surrender as “benevolence, as it constitutes the most powerful mixture for psychological health,” citing the Almighty’s saying: “And whoever submits his face to God while being a doer of good deeds has grasped the firmest knot that will never break.”
Rule of the day:
Khaled concluded by mentioning the twelfth rule, which is: Make a decision now for your entire life.. I will never neglect my mental health with these three things: 1- Remember your Lord daily with all your feelings, 2- Give peace and let God shape your life, 3- Bring out the best in you in your work.
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