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Omar Suleiman

Limit How Much News You Consume; Not How Much You Care

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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So obviously there's a lot of uncertainty and a lot of anxiety that's in the air that's surrounding us because of the elections climate and so many other things that are happening in the world.

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And I wanted to use tonight's reminder just to reflect a bit on what the

0:18.5

Prophet Slicum gives us and how to deal with an unhealthy overload.

0:24.0

Now before I go any further, I do want to say that last week there was an excellent webinar.

0:28.3

We had two excellent webinars in Hamdilin, how to deal with uncertainty from a spiritual psychological mental health religious

0:34.4

perspective and you can find some tips that were really truly beneficial

0:39.2

from Dr. Lanya, sister Nadjo sisterada, about how to cope with anxiety and uncertainty, and in general and specific to the times that we're living in.

0:48.2

But I wanted to reflect upon something that I had found really interesting from a hadith from the Prophet

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some and the incident with the Prophet Sala is, and I'd actually given a chotba about this.

0:59.7

I want to say it was a few months ago, I don't know if it was pre-Covid.

1:02.1

I've lost track of time just like everyone else. I'm pretty sure it was a few months ago. I don't know if it was pre-Covid. I've lost track of time just like everyone else. I'm pretty sure it was

1:04.8

before COVID a few months before COVID. But this idea of how to deal with the

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news cycle and how to deal with what is unhealthy for us and what shuts us off and doesn't allow us to function

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properly.

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And it's actually a Hadith where the Prophet's son was with the companions and he was in the

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graveyard and he asked them if they could hear what he had heard and they said no.

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And the Prophet's my son said that had I not feared that you would stop burying your dead,

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then I would ask Allah

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Allah's al-I'd say to let you hear some of what I'm hearing.

1:35.6

That's really interesting because the Prophet Salihis Sala is saying that

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we would not be able to function properly and we would not go about burying our

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