Peace of Mind..

assalamu 3alikom,

Peace of mind, or raa7et el baal, is a very important factor of any achievement or success or even satisfaction in our lives.

No matter how talented u are, gifted or blessed, u wont feel it, enjoy t, of achieve any satisfying outcomes if u dont have peace of mind.

Peace of mind is defined as: the freedom from fear, freedom from anger and freedom from guilt.. (by Brain Tracy)

If u can remember any state of happiness, u'll recall that u were free of those three negative feelings, that's y u enjoyed that moment and it was a happy moment for u.

Peace of mind is very dear and it worth that u keep it..

Fear can be for the simplest reason, but it has a big negative impact on how u perform things and progress, with fear u dont feel that u are u, u feel paralyzed and can't take most of ur decisions.

Anger, is destructive feeling, makes u see other's mistakes or misunderstanding as unforgivable mistakes, u over react, u loose ur patience, forgiveness, love and many others, u just convert to not only a different person, but a different creature.

Sometimes anger takes a different form, when it's buried inside u against all the surroundings: the government, the ppl, ur family, ur job.. u are just angry from every thing! Definitely in this stage u are not experiencing peace of mind!

Guilt may kill, ask me about it!!, it's when u are seeing that u have made a disaster and u are really hopeless, czu cannot do anything about it, u can not make the situation better. It's when u cannot forgive ur self and keep punishing it! 

U'll notice that in Islaam, Allaah sub7anahu wata3alaa wanted us to have that peace of mind in every aspect in our lives. Allaah sub7anahu wata3alaa, if not in Qur2aan then by sayyedna Muhammad's sunnaa, guided us to behave or believe in certain ways to achieve peace of mind

- Allaah freed us form fear, by telling us to have yaqeen, and to know that every thing is in Allaah's sub7anahu wata3alaa's hands, our future and rizq and every thing that we may worry about is qadar, and u trust Allaah sub7anahu wata3alaa in every thing that happens in our lives, and we know that any thing we get or loose is bcz it was or wasnt our rizq, and we leave the future to Allaah making the present and the ijtihaad in what in hands, our only concern .

-Allaah freed us from Anger, by commanding us to hold it when ever we feel it, telling us the br8 thawaab of "Kathm Al 3'ayth", and sending sayyedna Muhammad to tell us that we are stronger when we hold our anger not by acting angrily, and telling us that anger is from Shitaan, and we need to relax and thing b4 reacting, have "Wodoo2" and/or change our physical position.

-Allaah freed us from Guilt by giving us hope, and telling us that although we may not forgive our selves, yet Allaah forgives every thing, and there is always hope in his mercy, that no matter how big were our mistakes, Allaah is bigger, and his mercy always comes b4 his punishment sub7anahu wata3alaa. Not only by hope we over come our feeling of guild, yet by action to do to be in the state of "Tasalo7 ma3 el nafs", doing things as "Tawba", to let u know deeeeep inside ur self, that as long as u did that deeds that Allaah said they are "Kaffara", then for sure he forgives u.. and that all the "Kaffara" deeds, or actions intended for "Tawba" praying, fasting or giving money- are a great bless from Allaah sub7anahu wata3alaa to let us come over what ever we have done wrong, free our selves from the guilt and keep on our lives. 

So whenever u are feeling bad, remember the three feeling, ask ur self, then run to Allaaah, open the "Qur2aan" and read some verses, do any action with the tawba intention, and remember that Allaah "commanded" us with the peace of mind.

Wish u all the peace of minds..

Meet u in ur Du3aa2...

Assalamu 3alikom