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All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We praise him and we seek his help. And we seek

refuge in Allah from the whisperings of our souls and the evils of shaytan. Verily,

whomever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides, none can misguide. And whomever he chooses to

misguide, none can guide him back to the straight path. I bear witness and I testify that there

is no deity worthy of our worship other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that Muhammad

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the final messenger and the most perfect worshipper. Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala has said in the Qur'an, ya ayuhal la dhina aaman uttakullahu hakatukatuh wa

la tamutunna illa wa antumuslimun. O you who believe, be conscious of Allah and have

taqwa of Allah as is deserving of Allah and do not die except in a state of Islam.

My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, today's khutbah is going to be about a topic that many

consider to be taboo. Many do not wish to talk about it publicly and it is the topic of depression.

Statistics estimate that one in 15 people, roughly in this country, suffer from depression.

And the problem or one of the problems around depression is that and we have seen this

especially in the last year or two because it is taboo to discuss many of our own members

who are struggling with depression, don't know where to turn to. They feel uncomfortable

going to family and friends. Community deems it to be a type of illness that nobody talks

about. Most of the scholars and ulama and imams and shaykhs and I am one of them and I tell

you from an insider's perspective, most of us are clueless when it comes to how to treat

actual depression. In the last few years and especially in the last few months, I myself

have heard of a number of my colleagues and friends across the country telling me of

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