‘Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful." [Abu Dawud].

An old man was always praying in the same spot in the mosque, day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out. Whole mosque community knew him for his habits and always respected that in him. Until the natural disaster – and earthquake had happened, and peoples’ houses, belongings and family members had been lost for ever. The mosque was experiencing influx of newly converted hoards of believers, praying alongside an old man. Fajr in, fajr out, day in day out. Old man could not hold it together anymore and one day, upon entering his mosque, he made louder announcement: ’Oh people of the earthquake make a space for me and give me back my spot’. The moral of this story is that we all receive a calling to Iman through our lives constantly, and sometimes it takes national tragedy to wake us up from heedlessness.

I ask myself a question how many of us are the Covid19 people? How many of us are safe from such spiritual bypassing and are ready to face our Ihsan , our deep fears and weaknesses in Tawakkul. So we find ourselves in testing times, social isolations, limited outing options, but also working from homes or loosing our jobs all together. Home-schooling options had never been as real as it appears today, and our relationships’ issues can no longer be avoided in the rush of mundane duties. We are having no choice, we are facing it all, right now, under the roofs of our own homes. But are we really? How centring is the overreliance on social media? How helpful is re-watching news, feeding our brain and spirit with anxieties and fuelling inner with new statistics?

We had been both entertained and programmed by social media with Agamemnon alike vision ,we had also been thought to remember the signs of Last Hour haven’t we? But are those just a fairy-tales , stories we heard sometimes in the mosque, things we had been told as a children? Is our the faith in the Day of Judgment and signs of the Last Hour real? Are those truly our informed choices, an oath we took to live our life by. Do we go through life with conscious or we just fitting the notion, going with the flow, getting lost in translations of Dunya? The Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said: “O Muhajirun, (emigrants from Makkah to al-Madinah) you may be afflicted by five things; God forbid that you should live to see them… if fornication should become widespread, you should realise that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people which their forebears never suffered.” (Ibn Majah] There has never been better times for such contemplations but now.

In those moments when we see people losing their humanness, giving into their basic instincts of survival and being controlled by anxieties and egoism I ask myself a question are we not facing magnificent examples of a fine line between believer and non-believer. Aren’t we supposed to be steadfast, support one another, look for positiveness and holistic cure? ‘Allah has sent down both the disease and the cure, and He has appointed a cure for every disease, so treat yourselves medically, but use nothing unlawful." [Abu Dawud}. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment." (Bukhari). Majority of us will rarely look into nature and consider herbs, homeopathy, power foods to energise their body and prevent from weak immunity. We are conditioned to give the power of self-healing away to those who have licence – doctors. We gave the inner powers to maintain inner calm to counsellors, imams and Youtube speakers. Where did we disappeared, how did we lose our freedom? There have never been better times for such contemplations than now.

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• Create your vision board

• Reflect on things which you know Must Go in order for your life to change

• Start planning your therapy sessions topics by Identifying what resonates with your Heart.

• Create an outline the list of your Eternal Life goals.

• Write down the conversations you normally have with your self, like if you were telling a story to a friend

• Pick the most disturbing sentences and connect them with emotions you feeling when you hear them

• Perform several Ibadah types consciously (taddabur, dua, prayers, sadaka, fasting) and Honestly reflect on what is it you experiencing and what is it that you were hoping to experience

• Write down reasons why some of your relationships broke down and be clear on your ways about it as well

• Have a courage to name things you appreciate about your self, or are proud of - or ask you family and friends to remind you

• Take 10 minutes to edit your list and BOOK A CALL WITH AJ !