Tawakkul for the Anxious Mind Ft. Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef (rA)

About this episode

Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef discusses the impact of anxiety and the Islamic concept of tawakkul in overcoming it.

Your brain treats a made-up disaster the same way it treats a real one. In this episode, Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef (rA) gets personal about years spent scanning for what could go wrong, unable to just enjoy the moment because tomorrow felt too uncertain. He ties it to the Islamic understanding of qadr, a Quranic reminder about what strikes us and what misses us, and a story that completely reframed how he thought about tawakkul. You'll walk away with a practical way to catch yourself...

People in this episode

Guest: Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef

Topics covered

• anxiety
• tawakkul
• Islamic understanding
• qadr
• self-improvement

Keywords

• anxiety
• tawakkul
• qadr
• Islam
• self-improvement
• mindfulness

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