Category: Tazkiyah

• Fear of Angeks
• Fear of Prophets
• Fear of Companions
• Fear of Followers
• How to deal with unreferenced reports

• Can a Muslim be depressed?
• Types of depression that are forbidden.
• Remedies for crippling sadness
  • The importance of tawheed (worshipping Allah alone)
  • Understanding the role of qadr (divine decree) and accepting what Allah had decreed
  • Patience is rewarded, rejection is punished
  • Knowing that affliction is not just for evildoers and can sometimes be a blessing
  • The rewards of affliction
  • Duaa for depression
  • The importance of the supplication “ina lillahi wa ina ilayhi rajiun”
  • Keeping the life of this world in perspective

• Respecting our limitations in understanding pre-destination
• Practical tips and advice in prevention and cure of depression
• Using medication
• Alternatives to medicine

• Grades of Fear: moderate, extreme, deficient
• Kinds of Fear
• Virtue of Fear and Hope: Which is Superior?
• The Treatment Leading to Fear
• Qualities of the hypocrite

• Difference between khawf and khashia
• How to increase khashia:

heightening awareness of the Hereafter; awareness of Allah; and awareness of the shortness of this life

• Questions on Qadar (Will):
• What is the difference between universal will and religious will?
• How do you have free will and qadar (fate)?
• What do coincidences in life have to do with qadar (fate)?

• Importance of balance between hope and fear
• How to use fear constructively
• Example of fear in the Quran
• Love between hope and fear
• Clarification of hadiths regarding sin and foregiveness
• Explanation of Allah’s Will
• Rationality of Islam and fairness of Allah
• Refutation to the Shia using rationality of Islam and fairness of Allah

• Treatment of hope and it’s means
• The person who has lost hope
• The person who is too afraid
• Striking a balance in worship

• Balance of hope and fear
• Definition of hope
• Different stages of hope
• Difference between hope and wishful thinking