ATTRIBUTING MODERN MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES TO THE BLESSED ṢAḤĀBAH RAḌIYALLĀHU ‘ANHUM – A SIGN OF MENTAL DEPRAVITY

 

1.    Alḥamdulillāh for the bounty of Īmān and Islām. Alḥamdulillāh for the bounty of the Noble Qur’ān and the bounty of the Blessed Sunnah. Alḥamdulillāh for the bounty of being linked to the honourable Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum, the blessed household of Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, and the pious predecessors of the Ummah.

2.   The Jumu’ah platform is noble, blessed, and sacred. It must be used to spread the message of Islām, the meaning of the Noble Qur’ān, and give Muslims practical guidance on how to live their lives in accordance to the pleasure of Allāh Ta'ala. It is a trust, and must be treated as such.

3.   Of recent, there is a new trend of attributing modern mental issues to the blessed Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum from the Jumu’ah platform and other public daises. This is highly disturbing and grossly disrespectful. In fact, it can easily be counted as insolence towards the blessed Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum - who are much higher and free from all this lowly filth.

4.   For example, the second greatest luminary of the Ummah after Sayyidunā Abū Bakr radiyallahu 'anhu, Sayyidunā ‘Umar radiyallahu 'anhu was targeted as having narcissistic traits. This is a rotten lie against this blessed Ṣaḥābī, the father-in-law of Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. According to Britannica, Narcissism was first identified as a mental disorder in 1898. Hence, the ascription of Narcissism to Sayyidunā ‘Umar radiyallahu 'anhu is nothing but a figment of imagination, because it was not even identified in his time, but many centuries later. What makes matter even worse is when we look into the naming of this disorder. The disorder is named for the mythological figure Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection. Is this what orators are ascribing to the Blessed Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum?

5.   After seeing hardly any response from the Muslim community, modernist orators have become more bold in ascribing other modern mental health issues to other Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum. We seek the protection of Allāh Ta'ala from blasphemy.

6.   Anxiety and depression, grief and OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) have been mixed up, jumbled up, and confused and then all attributed to the blessed Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum in a recent Jumu’ah talk. To Allāh alone is our complaint.

7.   The blessed Ṣaḥābī, Sayyidunā Abū Umāmah radiyallahu 'anhu was troubled by debt. He was anxious and came to the Masjid. Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam comforted him and told him to recite a du’ā to help him overcome his distressed condition. Now, many people face difficulties and troubles in life, just like the Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum did – but to ascribe depression and OCD to the Ṣaḥābah is taking it way too far.

8.   If we are suffering from a mental health issue, then seek help. Period. There is no scope whatsoever to attribute these conditions to the Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum. If a person does this, he is actually showing his own mental depravity.

9.   Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam taught the blessed Ṣaḥābī radiyallahu 'anhu to turn to du’ā, meaning practical action to overcome his difficulty. He did not advise the Ṣaḥābī to resort to modern psychiatric treatment, turn to psychotic drugs, or abandon Ṣalāh, Tilāwah, and Dhikrullāh.

10.In Islām, a person is rewarded by Allāh Ta'ala for feeling anxious or experiencing some grief or pain. There are plenty of Aḥādīth in this regard. Islām is not in harmony with the permanent ‘feel good’ aura as promoted by Modernists and Liberals.

11. The Modernist fraternity generally ascribe the problematic issues of modernity to people of the past in order to gain justification for their mental depravity and soothe their corrupt consciences, making them ‘feel good’ permanently, without looking into the source of the problem.

12.The Modernist orators who are engaged in promoting modern psychiatric treatment are not welcome to do this from the Jumu’ah platform. There are other platforms available for this.

13.An appeal is made to the Modernists and Liberals to take their wares for sale elsewhere.

14.We seek the protection of Allāh Ta'ala from going astray after He has blessed us with Īmān, and we seek the protection of Allāh Ta'ala from disrespect to the Noble Qur’ān, the Blessed Sunnah, the Noble Ṣaḥābah radiyallahu 'anhum, and everything linked to Islām and Īmān. Āmīn