However Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution Therapy or Counselling as a whole, is just a means, and frankly that is all it is. Everything is in the hands of Allah swt, if He wishes for you to get better, then He can do so through Counselling or Therapy, if He doesn't then you can go through the best Therapy in the world it will not help you.
MashaAllah, this is true.
Tell me this. How can Quran remove "depression" of a man who knows his mother is a prostitute? Have you ever met such patients? I have. It makes you cry.
Akhee, the Quraan is the WORD of Allah. The actual message from our Creator to us, His Creation.
Do not doubt for a second, that our Most Merciful Rabb would leave us without a solid guide in this dunya.
The answers are there, for the one who searches ernestly - in the Quraan and the teachings of the one who was so beloved to Allah......Yet, went through so much more hardships and trials than anyone one of us - our prophet (sallalahu alaihi wasalam).
He is our guide!
Why did he not break down in depression when the people of Taif rejected his message and pelted his mubarak body away from their city?
Why did he not lose hope in Allah in the Battle of Badr when defeat looked almost certain?
Why didnt the prophet (sallalahu alaihi wasalam) or the companions succumb to the trials of this life (yet they were tested more than we can imagine)?
Is it not because of that level of Tawakkul (Trust in Allah) - that so many of us are deficient in nowadays?
We have to understand, that
we cannot escape the decisions of Allah Ta’ala with regard to any matter in our lives. Whatever Allah Ta’ala has decided will happen, no matter how much we may wish otherwise.
Our anxieties, depression and worries are often created because we first make the decisions, and then expect Allah Ta’ala to conform; whereas what we plan and decide is subject to Allah Ta’ala’s confirmation.
Rasulullah (salallahu alaihi wasalam) has said :
“Strive to acquire what is beneficial for you; seek the aid of Allah; do not lose courage and if a setback overtakes you, do not say : ‘If I had done this then it would have happened like this (i.e. not what had happened).’
Instead say : ‘Allah has ordained this. Whatever He has willed, has happened.’(Muslim)
"I was (once) behind Nabi (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) when he said to me:
'O son! I shall inform you of a few things.
Remember Allah Ta'ala and He will protect you.
Remember Allah Ta'ala and you will find Him close to you.
When you have to ask for something, ask of Allah Ta'ala.
When you require aid, seek His Aid.
Believe firmly that if all creation desires to benefit you in anything, they can never benefit you but that which Allah has decreed for you. If they all unite to harm you, they will not be able to harm you in anything, but that which Allah Ta'ala has decreed for you." (Tirmidhi)
If only we FIRMLY believed in this:
that in every decision and action of Allah’s, there is both wisdom and good for His servant.
Then where will there be room for depression?
If you suffer ANY hardship in life - no doubt you will feel sad (this is part of being human)......but why will we succumb to depression, when we KNOW that this is the decree of Allah.......that HIS plan is the best plan for us.
If we can be PLEASED with WHATEVER Allah has decided for us - there would be no mention of depression in our lives.
Hadhrat Sa'd narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said:
"The good fortune of a person is that he remains pleased with what Allah has ordained for him. The misfortune of a person is that he refrains from asking Allah for goodness and that he is displeased with what Allah has ordained for him." (Ahmad, Tirmidhi)
For the majority of cases, depression, etc stems from the above reasons.
For the minority, where there is a medical cause - insha Allah, seek aid in this as well.
The role of a muslim counsellor is indeed necessary -
in directing the sufferer towards adopting tawakkul.
Sometimes, it may be necessary for someone else to help guide us towards this realisation.
:wa:
) they ask me to talk, So I'd talk... sometimes I'd aska question and I wouldn't get an immediate repsonse. So I would say "I asked you a question" and the look on their faces would let me know that they were in lala land.
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