Health & wellbeingFrom the masjid's own video, Aug 1, 2026.
Balance therapy with worship and action
“Thikr will help ease your heart and keep your hands still as you are fighting the monsters of your life.”
In one sentence
Muslims should neither wholly embrace nor wholly reject mental health services and modern trends, but should seek counsel and solutions grounded in the Quran and Sunnah, coupled with worship and real-world action.
The khutbah in 7 steps
- Opening admonition: phones and distraction during Jumu'ah erase its reward, citing the hadith of the companion playing with pebbles
- Framing: Muslims are extremists about trends, total acceptance or total rejection, with little middle ground
- Example of mental health: over-dependence on non-Muslim therapists vs. total rejection in favor of dhikr alone
- Sunnah precedent for seeking counsel: the companion confiding in Abu Bakr, and companions bringing marriage disputes to the Prophet
- Contrasting foundations: Western psychology's self-defined self (Descartes) vs. Islamic view (Ibn Sina); the hadith qudsi that one's opinion of Allah shapes worldview
- Islam's prior tradition: Abu Zayd al-Balkhi documented OCD remedies 1000 years ago, translated by Dr. Rania Awaad
- Second khutbah (different speaker): observing the limits of Allah (hudud Allah), the mizan/balance, corruption on land and sea, and reclaiming scholars and chains of transmission over TikTok opinions
Try this week
Seek therapy and mental health counsel from professionals who share or understand Islamic beliefs and values
Take questions about verses or hadith that trouble you to knowledgeable scholars first, not to non-Muslim therapists
Combine dhikr, dua, and prayer with concrete action to solve problems instead of praying problems away
Accept mediation and counsel for marital problems as a sunnah practice rather than rejecting it
Take religious knowledge from scholars and chains of transmission rather than TikTok/Instagram influencers
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 9Used to urge keeping sincere, righteous company and counsel
Quran 9:111-112Second khutbah's anchor text leading to 'those who preserve the limits of Allah'
Surah 55Second khutbah: used to argue creation has an ordained balance that society is violating
Surah 30Second khutbah: moral decay is a consequence meant to turn people back to Allah
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“The soul is compelled to act in a world that is not of its choosing.”
“Thikr will help ease your heart and keep your hands still as you are fighting the monsters of your life.”
“He wrote a book about the remedies for OCD 1000 years ago.”
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