8. Depression Management in Islam

✅Problem: Anger

✅Solution: Accept faults & recorrect

Most of the mistakes are committed when we are in the state of Anger; Divorces, Murders, Breakups, resignations, terminations etc, happen when we lose our control and respond instantly. These frustrations Leeds us to state of mind where we lose our sleep and fell into depression.

📌 When we find ourselves in such situations, we must

📍 Calm down, if we are standing, we should sit down

 📍 Postpone the decision temporarily till be cool down to our senses.

📍 Try to figure out our mistakes

📍 Give reasons & Excuses for other’s mistakes

📍 Seek apology from the ones who are hurt

📍 Accept our faults and repent before Almighty.

✅Quran has given us an example of Prophet Younus PBUH; who as per Quran left his people when they ignored and rejected his admonitions in a fit of rage; what happened to him later is well explained in Quran which says:

•         وَذَا النُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغَاضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَىٰ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَن لَّا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا أَنتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ ﴿٨٧﴾ فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْغَمِّ ۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُنجِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ﴿٨٨﴾

•         اور مچھلی والے کو بھی ہم نے نوازا یاد کرو جبکہ وہ بگڑ کر چلا گیا تھا اور سمجھا تھا کہ ہم اس پر گرفت نہ کریں گے آخر کو اُس نے تاریکیوں میں پکارا "نہیں ہے کوئی خدا مگر تُو، پاک ہے تیری ذات، بے شک میں نے قصور کیا" (87) تب ہم نے اس کی دُعا قبول کی اور غم سے اس کو نجات بخشی، اور اِسی طرح ہم مومنوں کو بچا لیا کرتے ہیں (88) 

•       "And (mention) Prophet Yunus (as) when he went away in anger thinking We had no power over him. But (later) in the darkness he cried: 'There is no God except You. Exaltations to You! I was among the harm doers'. So We responded to him and saved him from the grief, and thus do We save the believers” (Al-Anbiaa’ 21:87-88).