Imaam
Ibn Al-Qayyim (رحمه الله)
said:
Grief,
sorrow and distress only occur from two directions:
One of it is: The desire for the worldly life and having a zeal for it
And the second is: shortening in the
actions of obedience and piety.
From ‘Uddah
As-Saabireen pg.227
All Praise is to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds and may He send peace and
blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad صلّى اللَّهُ
عليه وسلّم, his relatives and companions.
To Proceed:
Verily the problem
associated with stress and anxiety has become from the many great problems, and
it is one that afflicts numerous people.
Some of the signs of Stress
and Anxiety:
1. Feeling tight and
constricted and lack of relaxation, along with continual grief and sorrow;
2.
Difficulty in
concentrating or an empty-mind feeling and weakness in thinking;
3. Doubts and
uncertainties whether in ambition or in companions and the general people;
4.
Having doubt that he
is afflicted with dangerous illnesses;
5. Difficulty in
sleeping; from sweating, lack of relaxation and nightmares
6. Panic-attacks and the
fear of facing the people, from that which causes seclusion and depression;
7. Feeling a change in
personality or a change in the surrounding environment even if in reality that
isn't the case;
8. Fearing the closeness
of death in an increased sense to that of the normal state;
9. Feeling numbness and
tingling in the body and limbs;
10.
Colonic Contraction,
Stomachache and tense headache;
11.
Weakness of sexual
desire;
12.
Ill-Fated in most
affairs;
13.
Short tempered and
provocative;
14. Magnifying small
issues;
15.
Quickness in fatigue
and exhaustion and anorexia.
Based on this, the clinics for neurological and psychological disorders have
become overcrowded by patients, and all sorts of psychological medication have
been used. However with investigation you'll find that only rare from amongst
the patients are recovering. That is because there are other remedial reasons
that most psychologists neglect and many patients aren't concerned with, and
they are by the permission of Allaah, the most important causes of recovery from
this condition and we will mention to you some of them:
