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• What to seek: poverty or wealth
• Keeping money away from your heart
• Concepts of Vanishment:
  • Existential
  • Perceptual

• Connection between Tazkiyah and Siyam
• Benefits of Siyam
  • Attainment of the pleasure of Allah and obedience
  • Elevating the soul
  • Curbing bodily desires
  • Patience in Universal Decree and Religious Decree

• Approach to poverty and wealth
• Examples from the Quran and Sunnah
• Propagating a culture of success for he Ummah
• Seeking wealth and how to use it
• How to be ascetic without being poor

• Definition of Poverty
• Aspects of man’s poverty:
  • Asceticism
  • Satisfaction
  • Contentment
  • Keenness
  • Necessity

• Introduction to Zuhd (Asceticism)
• Introduction to Sufism
• Manners of critiquing a group
• Reservations to Sufism

• Fear of Angeks
• Fear of Prophets
• Fear of Companions
• Fear of Followers
• How to deal with unreferenced reports

• 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

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