American Muslima Writer -Daring to Work Towards Jannah

Those who have experienced Depression fully know the fog that envelopes the mind that lets nothing through with clarity and happiness. Everything is hazy. Not necessarily like you can't physically see but you can't mentally grasp what you see as well. You know it's a tree but you just don't care to look at it closely cause it's so darn far away and blurry. Other thing besides depression can color the way you see things.

Sometimes though our anger overwhelms us and we struggle seeing red not to blow our tops. We blame everyone else for our misfortunes instead of turning into ourselves for the answers. By calming down, again problem solving, and most important realizing Allah's Will and Plan extends to all, we can control what we get angry about. Seeing red is no fun for all involved.







What does someone do though when their ultimate resource of turning to Allah fails them? Not because He has failed them but because they have failed themselves in seeking and implementing proper faith. What can they do to boost their lens capacity to see the beautiful colors Allah has created again? How can someone increase their faith when they feel so low and unfaithful? This is something many of us especially converts/reverts go through. Constantly seeking answers to boost ourselves higher. The first resource is usually turning to our friends and family for support. Yet sometimes they don't understand us nor can we fully open up around them. Then we turn to strangers like on the internet through blogs, websites, and forums. Sometimes their suggestions help other times it seems to make us more lost because everyone has different takes and lenses they look through. We then turn to books for impartial knowledge. Yet someone wrote each of these books and they each had their lens. There is only one book in creation that I know of that has not been changed since it's completion by a source Most High. The Qur'an. Through which we can readjust our lens to match it's clarity. And lastly we tend to turn to Allah. In prayer and sacrifice we finally submit and bow our heads in humility and weep. Realizing this is where we should have turned in the first place. Pouring our hearts out to our Creator who has the actual Power to fix our lens. Who gave us our lens and has knowledge of all it's properties.