Böcker av Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

All praises are due to Allaah and peace and blessings, beupon His prophet Muhammad and his family and companionsAllaah, the Almighty created the human Nafs (self or soul) with two main strengths, which are: the strength of advancement and the strength of restraint. The strength of advancement must be directed to the things that are of benefit to the person in this life and the Hereafter. As for the strength of restraint, this must be used to abstain from what harms the person. The Muslim should naturally be disposed to advance in good and restrain from evil. This restraint is like a rein that holds the Muslim back from all evil.Therefore, restraint is the Muslim's curb which prevents him from committing or indulging in evil, sins and non-beneficial matters. The stronger the restraint is, the better the Muslim can oppose his forbidden desires, temptations and trials. Some people have patience with the discomfort of worship but have no patience when it comes to avoiding sins, and vice versa.For example, many people have the patience to stand in night prayers in the cold and heat, and have patience with the discomfort of fasting, but do not have the patience to restrain themselves from gazing at what is forbidden. Many other people have the patience to restrain from indulging in the forbidden gaze, but do not have the patience to enjoin good and forbid evil or to combat the disbelievers and hypocrites. 1 However, the best people are the ones who have patience with both categories.

If you think about those who are homeless, who live in shelters, or on the streets, or as refugees scattered in temporary camps, then you will realize the blessing of having a home. If you listen to a distressed homeless person saying: "I have nowhere to settle, no fixed place to stay. Sometimes I sleep in so and so's house, sometimes in a café or park or on the sea-front, and I keep my clothes in my car", then you will realize the disruption that results from not having the blessing of a home.There are many motives for the believer to pay attention to putting his house in order. This book helps with the ideas.

When the father or mother grows old, the best among their children hastens to put them in seniors' homes. Some Muslims went to some of these homes and asked a dozen of seniors what their greatest wish was. All of them said, "Death!" That is only because each of them is living in misery, grief and regret for the way they have ended up and the way their children have deserted them at the time when they need them most.

It is the nature of this life that people will suffer from worries and stress, because this world is the place of disease, hardship and suffering. And also nature of this life that people have to put up with suffering and hardship for various reasons, as is indicated in the Qur'aan (interpretation of the meaning): "Verily, We have created man in toil." [al-Balad 90:4]. So people feel regret for what has happened in the past, anxious about what may happen in the future, and worried about what is going on in the present. In this book, described different kinds of worries and Islam's Treatment for dealing with Anxiety and Worry.