Cheer Up, Girl!
Assalamualaikum~ credit Shaykh Tawfique Chowdury explains how surah Ad-Dhuha is an antidote for depression. It was revealed at a time when the prophet stopped receiving any revealation from Allah for 6 month. Nothing at all. Jibril did not come down, and the prophet did not get any dreams. That time rasulullah was sad & began to think that Allah hates him. That Allah did not want him as a nabi anymore. All these thoughts comes to his mind. Dont this happen to us? When things dont go our way we begin to think god isnt fair, He isnt listening to our du'as. We feel that Allah is not responding to us, that he does not care. Thus we feel devastated. So what did Allah do? He brought down surah Dhuha- for the prophet, & for us all. (1) "waddhuha. by the sun & the morning in its blazing glory." The first thing u tell a person who's depressed is to wake up, see the sun. Its not all doom & gloom. Its a good day out there. Look at the sun and how it...