Recent
statisticsreveal that 10% of the Americans have depression and are
even taking depression drugs, but why? What is the reason behind this
phenomenon? Let’s read and find out…
American researchers have said
that the use of antidepressants in the USA has multiplied between the
years 1996- 2005 most probably due to a number of factors. Researchers
have also discovered that antidepressants have been prescribed for
around 6% persons in 1996 and they numbered 13 millions then and this
number increased to 10% or 27 millions in 2005.
Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia
University in New York and Dr. Steven Marcus of Pennsylvania University
both wrote at the journal of general psychology archives that “there’s
astounding increase in antidepressantsuse and this is obvious in all
socio-demographic classes that have been examined except for
Afro-Americans. Not only are more Americans taking antidepressants, but
those who are already given antidepressants are taking more.”
Why Depression?
Today, this disease is wide
spreading to the extent that governments spend hundreds of billions on
medication ….., But in vain why?
The holy Qur’an has provided us with a divine and fundamental law in the following verse:
“But whosoever turns
away from My Message, verily for him is a life narrowed down, and we
shall raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment.”Ta-Ha: 124
Thus depression is the fate of any
and every one who doesn’t believe in the message of Islam because
Allah, The Almighty says also in the holy Qur’an:
“If anyone desires a
religion other than Islam (submission to God), never will it be
accepted of him; and in the hereafter he will be in the ranks of those
who have lost (All spiritual good).”Al-i-Imran or the Family of Imran: 85
Dear readers, a true Muslim is the
last person to have depression, sadness, and despair due to what Allah,
The Exalted says in the holy Qur’an:
“O my sonsgoye and enquire about Joseph and his brother, and never give up hope of God's
soothing Mercy: truly no one despairs of God's soothing mercy, except those who have no faith."Yusuf or Joseph: 87
Allah also says in the holy Qur’an:
“We said: "Get ye
down all from here; and if, as is sure, there comes to you guidance from
Me, whosoever follows My guidance, on them shall be no fear, nor shall
they grieve.”Baqara:38
I hope, therefore, that Muslim
psychologists conduct similar research, but on believers… they will
undoubtedly find that depression has absolutely no place among
believers! because believers evaluate everything through the hereafter
scale rather than that of this transient world; everything is from Allah
and by his commands and everything that takes place is for their good,
so if something good happens to them they'll be grateful and praise
Allah for it and if something bad happens to them, they remain patient
and this way they get rewarded and blessed either ways and find a
solution and remedy while unbelievers find no remedy and get to a dead
end and thus they have depression, melancholy, despair, and frustration
and this is what we notice about unbelievers. Let's mediate the
following great verse:
“Behold! Verily on
the friends of God there is no fear, nor shall they grieve* those who
believe and (constantly) guard against evil;* for them are Glad Tidings,
in the life of the Present and in the hereafter: no change can there be
in the Words of God. This is indeed the supreme felicity.” Yunus or Jonah: 62- 64
Dear brothers and sisters, let me
ask you a question, don’t you like to become one of Allah’s friends in
this world? The answer is very simple; all you have to do is just to
have two characteristics; faith and piety. We pray to Allah that we all
be among the faithful, pious believers who are the friends of Allah.
Amen.
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