{"id":3437,"date":"2011-09-04T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2011-09-04T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T13:26:59","slug":"being-scared-and-frightened-during-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/being-scared-and-frightened-during-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Being scared and frightened during the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being scared and frightened during the night<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Answer<\/h1>\n<p>Being scared and frightened is something which the accursed shaitan puts into people.\u00a0 This is another form of waswasa. (Satanatic insinuation)<\/p>\n<p>The best way to address this problem in the short term is not to think about it at all and be brave and not to let shaitan overpower you; the more you think about it the more it will escalate. In the long term, try to get into a habit of doing zikr and remembering Allah (SWA) as shaitan finds it easy to manipulate and cause difficulties to those people who do not have Allah (SWA) words and blessings in them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Qadi Thanaullah Pani Pati in his \u201cTafsir Mazhari\u201d has written that there are three types of zikr:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oral, loudly<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oral, silently<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spiritual, within the heart known as Zikr Qalbi (Tafsir Mazhari p.41 v.3)<\/p>\n<p>Practical zikr also known as \u2018Zikr Faily\u2019 is a type of zikr where a person\u2019s action comprises of obedience to the commandments of Allah. \u00a0For example praying, fasting, zakat and other types of worship and to the sunnah of the Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalam.<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalam has said \u2018should I not inform you of the best deed, which will guarantee your salvation in this world as well as in the next.\u00a0 Listen! Hold fast on the zikr gatherings.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 (Mishkaatul Masabeeh p.67)<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being scared and frightened during the night\u00a0 In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer Being scared and frightened is something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}