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Worry and anxiety
Money worry that will not stop
Worry is a behaviour rather than a character, the loop runs both ways, and the verses about rizq do not say what the posts say they say.
This course is not financial advice. For anything about your own debt you need free regulated debt advice, which exists in most countries and costs nothing, and this platform will point you to the service where you live. And if you have thought about ending your life, or have thought that the people around you would be better off with the insurance money or without the burden of you, do not carry on reading. Tell someone today and contact your doctor or an emergency service today.
Six short lessons on the worry itself, not on the money. It separates being in financial trouble from the mind that is running on it all day, explains why the not knowing is the fuel rather than the size of the number, and takes apart the reading that turns someone's income into a report on their taqwa. Two changes are taught in lesson four and both are small. It gives no financial advice at any point and says clearly where the qualified help is.
Who this is for
Anyone whose money situation has taken over their thinking, who is not opening the post, who lies awake doing sums, or who has been told that if their faith were in better shape a door would have opened. Also for anyone carrying a debt in secret. It assumes no clinical background and no training in the sacred sciences.
What this is not
This is not debt advice and it never will be. It says nothing about your own debt, it compares no products, it will not tell you what to pay, what to stop paying, whom to pay first, or whether to use any particular formal remedy. It gives no fatwa and will not tell you whether anything you hold is riba. It does no exposure work on you and does not ask you to stay with distress until it drops. It is not treatment for problem gambling, which needs a specialist service.
The lessons
6- Money worry is not the same as being bad with moneyTwo separate problems get treated as one, and only one of them is about arithmetic.
- The loop between debt and the mindIt runs both ways, and worry turns out to be something you do rather than something you are.
- What rizq actually means, and what those verses do not promiseThe prosperity reading, the reverse inference, and the bird that goes out in the morning.
- A worry appointment and one real numberContain the worry in time, and swap one estimated fear for one figure you actually looked up.
- What feeds itThe unopened post, the secret, and the hadith that stops Muslims asking for help.
- Where to go, and who the right help isPlain markers, the exact line this course will not cross, and the two kinds of help you need.
It is written and sourced and it has not yet been read by a scholar and a clinician. Read it as a draft, and if something in it is wrong please write to admin@inshirah.org so it can be corrected.
What this course is built on
- Qur'an 2:275 to 2:282, 2:286, 3:159, 9:60, 11:6, 29:60, 51:22, 62:10, 65:2 to 65:3, 67:15. Translation throughout: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004. 51:22 and 65:2 to 65:3 are used in the course only together with the correction of the prosperity reading, and are never presented on their own. The reverse inference, that financial difficulty proves a deficiency of taqwa, is named and rejected in lesson three. The scholar reviewer settles the permissible range of use.
- Sahih al-Bukhari 1429, 1469, 1470, 2387, 6369; Sahih Muslim 1042, 1044, 1598, 1886; Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1078, 2344, 2517, 3563. Only reports graded sound or good are used, and each report inside a lesson links to its full entry with its grading. The dua for debt is cited to Sahih al-Bukhari 6369. Bukhari 2893, which is the reference usually given for it, is a different report about the Khaybar expedition and is not used. The saying that poverty is close to disbelief is named in lesson five as contested and commonly graded weak, and is not cited as evidence. Bukhari 1429 never appears without Muslim 1044 in the same step, and Tirmidhi 1078 and Muslim 1886 never appear without Bukhari 2387 and Qur'an 2:280 in the same step.