Ibn Qayyim: 15 Ways to Get Past Worries and Regret

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Ibn al-Qayyim summed fifteen ways through which Allah may dispel worries and regret. These are as follows:

1- Tawheed al-Ruboobiyyah (belief in the Oneness of Divine Lordship)

2- Tawheed al-Uloohiyyah (belief in the Oneness of the Divine nature)

3- Tawheed of knowledge and belief (i.e., Tawheed al-Asma’ wa’l_Sifaat, belief in the Oneness of the Divine names and attributes)

4- Thinking of Allah as being above doing any injustice to His slaves, and above punishing anyone for no cause on the part of the slave that would require such punishment.

5- The person’s acknowledging that he is the one who has done wrong.

6- Beseeching Allah by means of the things that are most beloved to Him, which are His names and attributes. Two of His names that encompass the meanings of all other names and attributes are al-Hayy (the Ever-Living) and al-Qayyoom (the Eternal).

7- Seeking the help of Allah Alone.

8- Affirming one's hope in Him.

9- Truly putting one’s trust in Him and leaving matters to Him, acknowledging that one's forelock is in His hand and that He does as He wills, that His will is forever executed and that He is just in all that He decrees.

10- Letting one's heart wander in the garden of the Quran, seeking consolation in it from every calamity, seeking healing in it from all diseases of the heart, so that it will bring comfort to his grief and healing for his worries and distress.

11- Seeking forgiveness.

12- Repentance.

13- Jihad.

14-Salah (prayer).

15-Declaring that he has no power and no strength, and leaving matters to the One in Whose hand they are.

We ask Allah to keep us safe and sound from worries and to relieve us of distress and anxiety, for He is the All-Hearing, Ever-Responsive, and He is the Ever-Living, Eternal.

 

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Expanding on the point of quran, Allaah swt says in suuratul Israa aayah 82:

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌۭ وَرَحْمَةٌۭ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۙ وَلَا يَزِيدُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارًۭا​

"And We send down [i.e. reveal] from the Qur'aan that which is a healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss."

This is a pivotal point in that quraan saar and tufo and all the other stuff doesn't have an effect Unless You Want It To. If you don't believe that the quraan can heal you it won't. Only if you believe in the quraan's benefits will it benefit you.

One way i remove my doubts is through seeking knowledge, through an actual teacher instead of the internet. Doing research on the fiqh and fatawa and ahadiith and aqiidah without knowing what you doing is bound to fail, so thats why i personally think anyone who isn't certified by their macalin should just be quiet and listen to them, instead of looking up madhaahib and trying to rank hadiith on their own

Also base your morals on Allaah's swt laws and nebi maxamed's scw akhlaaq, He has blessed you with being born somali, a culture which has minimal filter to say the least