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Ya Ayyuha Lathina Aman uttaqullahu Hakka Tukatihi wa Latamutunna illa wa Antum Muslimun

Amma Bad, Madhi brothers and sisters in Islam. This trial, this life of ours is full of trials.

There is no stage of our lives except that we face in it anxieties, grief, stress, and worries.

And if you look at the life of our prophets, Allahu alayhi wa sallam,

he faced far more powerful struggles than we did. His anxieties were far greater than anything

we can imagine. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed at the very first major crisis of his life,

of his spiritual life. Allah revealed a surah that will be the subject of our khutbah today

because it deals with how to grapple with anxiety and stress. It deals with what to do when

you're facing challenges. It deals with what to do when you're so overcome. You might be verging

on depression. You might be thinking thoughts that are unislamic. And our Prophet sallallahu

alayhi wa sallam himself went through something of this nature, a very miniscule amount

at the beginning of his Prophethood. And Allah revealed a surah that set him a right in this

regard. And we have done this surah and I'm sure multiple people have done the same surah

in the khutbah that I'm about to give but today inshaAllah it will come with a slightly different

twist. And that is how we understand the psychology of depression, the psychology of feeling

negative when it comes to the Quran and to the Sunnah. If you look at the early seerah of the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the first year of the revelation of the Quran,

there was a time frame some scholars set up to six months that Allah did not reveal any Quran.

So the Quran came, Iqra came when Muzehmeel came with death it came and then after a while

no Quran. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam began wondering what's wrong? Is there

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