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- Respecting our limitations in understanding pre-destination
- Practical tips and advice in prevention and cure of depression
- Using medication
- Alternatives to medicine

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Can a Muslim be depressed?
Types of depression that are forbidden.
Remedies for crippling sadness

 - The importance of tawheed (worshipping Allah alone)
 - Understanding the role of qadr (divine decree) and accepting what Allah had decreed
 - Patience is rewarded, rejection is punished
 - Knowing that affliction is not just for evildoers and can sometimes be a blessing
 - The rewards of affliction
 - Duaa for depression
 - The importance of the supplication "ina lillahi wa ina ilayhi rajiun"
 - Keeping the life of this world in perspective

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- The best of names belong to Allah
- Importance of using Allah's names in dua and memorizing them
- Seeking by a name of Allah that which is connected to it
- Truly knowing Allah's names and characteristics purifies intentions and actions 

Guest Speaker Br. Saeed Purcell

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- Meaning of Asceticism
- States of Asceticism
- Virtue of Asceticism as to Essentials of Life:
food, clothing, accomodation, it's furniture, marriage, water, and influence

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

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Actions of those putting their trust in Allah
1. Securing benefits
2. Means enhancing an existent benefit such as fasting
3. Embarking on those means of defense
4. Seeking to remove an adversity such as an illness


Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

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